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Can I maintain GlobalIDs in ESRI File Geodatabase

  • October 28, 2020
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I am merging data from and existing ESRI File Geodatabase with data form excel spreadsheet using globalID.  I then want to write that data to new ESRI File Geodatabase,  preserving the GlobalID from the existing fGDB.  I can see this is possible in SDE.  is there a way I can do this in non-SDE fGDB.  I am using FME version 2019.1​

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david_r
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  • 8392 replies
  • October 28, 2020

Unfortunately I don't think that is possible, but please consider voting for the idea here:

https://community.safe.com/s/idea/0874Q000000j0IbQAI/detail


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  • 1891 replies
  • October 28, 2020

@ste18302​  Preserving GlobalIDs is not yet possible for File Geodb (as @david_r​ mentions above). However, I think it is possible to convert your GlobalIDs to a GUID and then write those, then convert those GUIDs to a GlobalID. I couldn't find anything newer than this but it might give you some ideas.