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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
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
Hi,

 

 

See David's exellent answer here:

 

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

 

Hope this helps,

 

Itay
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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