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Hello.

I'm using the FeatureWriter to create GDB Feature Classes, which will extend into ArcSDE Feature Classes soon. I can't seem to find any details on the Table Parameter options of this transformer in the documentation, however.

Under Table>General, there are Feature Operation and Table Handling options. Currently, the options selected in my translations are:

Feature Operation: Insert

Table Handling: Create if needed

and currently the features are added to my target Feature Class every time the translation is run. Which is not particularly my preference right now, but will be in the future. When attempting to use the other options, I receive ArcObjects-related errors and can't completely overwrite the Feature Class. During translation testing it would be ideal to completely overwrite all features every time it is run until which time the translation is completely set up (i.e. delete and reload). If updating the Feature Classes is not possible, it would also be of benefit to have the ability to completely overwrite the Feature Class in the future.

Can someone explain each of the options for Feature Operation and Table Handling so that I can configure the transformer?

Thanks!

 

Hi @ronaldmcoker,

The Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb) Writer Feature Type Parameters Documentation will be helpful for you as it goes into great detail about the Feature Operations and Table Handling parameters (found in the Table Settings: General section).

If you want to delete and reload your features you will likely want to use Drop and Create for the Table Handling parameter as it will drop and re-create the table before writing any features to it - tables will be overwritten when the first input feature is processed.

Hope this helps.

- Chris

Hi @ronaldmcoker,

The Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb) Writer Feature Type Parameters Documentation will be helpful for you as it goes into great detail about the Feature Operations and Table Handling parameters (found in the Table Settings: General section).

If you want to delete and reload your features you will likely want to use Drop and Create for the Table Handling parameter as it will drop and re-create the table before writing any features to it - tables will be overwritten when the first input feature is processed.

Hope this helps.

- Chris

Thank you Chris!

 

 

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