First post on this forum. I tried searching for an answer but really couldn't find what I needed. Feel free to point me in the right direction if I've missed it.
I have several oil wells that I plot on my maps using various symbols (i.e. oil, gas, injection, dry hole, etc). I've saved all of this symbology as Well_Symbol.lyr which is linked to an original feature class named "Wells". Just to be clear this feature class is stored within a file geodatabase.
I work with several other programs and sometimes need to append data to this "Wells" feature class which I generally do via a join. The join is not based on the Object_ID field but rather another field named WSN. I will then export the joined table to a new feature class named "Wells_", rename the old "Wells" to "Wells_Date" for archival purposes, and rename "Wells_" to simply "Wells". The idea being my layers should continue to display symbology properly by referencing the "Wells" feature class even though it contains the new appended data.
The issue is my layers will change after doing this export. My guess is the Object_ID is changing during the export process but the "Well_Symbology.lyr" is continuing to reference the Object_ID field. Is this what is going on?
The best thing would be for my layer file to reference the WSN column since it never changes but I can't find an option for doing this. Is this possible?
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I have several oil wells that I plot on my maps using various symbols (i.e. oil, gas, injection, dry hole, etc). I've saved all of this symbology as Well_Symbol.lyr which is linked to an original feature class named "Wells". Just to be clear this feature class is stored within a file geodatabase.
I work with several other programs and sometimes need to append data to this "Wells" feature class which I generally do via a join. The join is not based on the Object_ID field but rather another field named WSN. I will then export the joined table to a new feature class named "Wells_", rename the old "Wells" to "Wells_Date" for archival purposes, and rename "Wells_" to simply "Wells". The idea being my layers should continue to display symbology properly by referencing the "Wells" feature class even though it contains the new appended data.
The issue is my layers will change after doing this export. My guess is the Object_ID is changing during the export process but the "Well_Symbology.lyr" is continuing to reference the Object_ID field. Is this what is going on?
The best thing would be for my layer file to reference the WSN column since it never changes but I can't find an option for doing this. Is this possible?
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