Loading data with the Load Objects command

Steps:

1. To add your data to ArcMap, click Editor > Start Editing.
2. Click Load Objects.

   Learn how to add the Load Objects command in ArcMap

3. Browse to the source feature class.
4. Click Add to add it to the list of source data.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you have specified all the source data.
6. Click Next.
7. Choose a target template/layer to load objects into.
8. Click Next.
9. Click the Matching Source Fielddrop-down arrow and click the field from the source data you want to match to the target field.

Leave the Matching Source Fieldparameter as <None> if you don’t want data from a field in the source data to be loaded into the target data.

10. Repeat step 9 until you have matched the fields you want loaded from your source data.
11. Click Next.
12. Click the first option and skip to step 17 if you want to load all the source data.
13. Click the second option if you want to limit the features from the source data to load into the target using an attribute query.
14. Click Query Builder to open the Query Builder dialog box.
15. Create a query to limit the features or rows from the source data to be loaded into the target.
16. Click OK.
17. Click Next.
18. Click No if you don’t want your features to be snapped to existing features in your edit session.

Click Yes if you want to use the current Editor snapping environment to snap the new features as they are loaded.

19. Click No if you don’t want your new features to be validated after they are loaded.

Click Yes if the feature class or subtype into which you are loading data has rules associated with it and you want any new invalid features to be selected after the loading process.

20. Click Next.
21. Review the options you have specified for loading your data. If you want to change something, go back through the wizard by clicking Back.
22. Click Finish to load your data when you are satisfied with your options.

Tip:

If you're loading into a versioned ArcSDE feature class or table with ArcMap, the data loads into the delta tables, not the base tables. After you’ve finished loading into any feature class or table registered as versioned without the option to move edits to the base table, run Compress on your database to push all the records from the delta tables to the base tables. Having your data in the base tables results in fasterqueries than if you have large amounts of data in your delta tables.

Tip:

The option to validate the new features applies only to the geodatabase and does not validate the topology.