My issue is that I want to preserve both the object ID and GlobalID values. Export features can preserve Global ID values but doesn't preserve Object ID values. Copy/paste features preserve Object ID values, but not Global ID values. Can't edit an ID field so can't do any spatial join workarounds either.
Can someone confirm Craig's suggestion here; that OIDs are preserved using Copy/Paste?
I'm trying to rollup changes from non-versioned GDBs, seeking to preserve the OIDs; the source and target feature classes would have the same name (i.e., structure_existing_area) in two GDBs (i.e., Test and Default)
- using "manual" editing (delete features in Default; select all in Test; copy; paste into Default) did not preserve the OIDs; the pasted features were all "renumbered"
- the "Copy Features" tool (with geoprocessing option "Overwrite = on") reported success, but the paste failed; the Default feature class had zero features after the tool finished/reported success
Thanks,
Greg
Greg, to clarify, the Copy/Paste functionality that I referred to in the post is the Copy/Paste functionality available through ArcCatalog/Catalog window; not using the copy/paste commands in the Editor.
Yes, the manual Copy/Paste of the data and the Import/Export as XML workspace documents preserves the ObjectIDs of the data.
Craig and Asrujit, thanks! Your replies made things clear here.