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  • September 20, 2013
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All,

 

 

I have 8 years worth of polygon data that I'd like to append to 1 feature class in SDE. The source data is from shapefiles.

 

 

I've set this up in a single workbench, and pointed all the readers to the same writer. It looked like it would work until I ran it, then I noticed what had happened:

 

 

- for each reader, the writer had created a new feature class in the SDE with the name of the writer with a 0 appended to the name, 00 for the next one, 000 for the next one, etc. In the end I had 6 SDE feature classes with names ending in various 0's...

 

 

Example: SchoolBoundary_Archive0

 

 

SchoolBoundary_Archive0

 

SchoolBoundary_Archive00

 

SchoolBoundary_Archive000

 

SchoolBoundary_Archive0000 etc. etc.

 

 

Now I'm guessing this isn't the desired workflow, so I'm wondering what my best course of action would be in order to append this datasets together. Perhaps I should create a seperate workbench file for each?

 

 

Any thoughts appreciated.

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

Matthew Baker

 

Denver Public Schools

Best answer by takashi

Hi Matthew

 

 

The same feature class should have the same feature type name.

 

I don't think you need to create multiple writer feature types. You can send every features coming from multiple shape files to one writer feature type (SchoolBoundary_Archive) in a workspace.

 

Takashi
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  • September 21, 2013
Hi Matthew

 

 

The same feature class should have the same feature type name.

 

I don't think you need to create multiple writer feature types. You can send every features coming from multiple shape files to one writer feature type (SchoolBoundary_Archive) in a workspace.

 

Takashi
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  • September 23, 2013
Hi,

 

 

See David's exellent answer here:

 

http://fmepedia.safe.com/AnswersQuestionDetail?id=906a0000000coksAAA

 

Hope this helps,

 

Itay
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  • September 23, 2013
Takashi and Itay,

 

 

Thank you!

 

 

Takashi, your method was what I was after. Good to know I can point multiple readers at 1 writer! Great stuff!

 

 

-mb

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