Merge tool in modelbuilder erasing text from fields
I have a workflow where I am selecting different subsets of features from a dataset, adding and calculating new fields for them, then merging them back together.
If I make a model that selects the subsets of data, adds and calculates the fields, then I add those into the merge tool in the geoprocessing pane, that works fine, and the four new fields I added and calculated look like this:
However, if I include the merge step in the model, the end result of that model shaves all but the first character of the text off in the new fields:
Can anyone advise as to what is going on here? The new fields are text fields with a character length of 512. The only difference I can see between the two approaches is running the merge field in the model or not.
Any help appreciated, thanks!
