If you have existing GIS data for your system you may want to load it into the hosted feature layers created by the configuration. Depending upon your experience level and the format of existing data, it may be faster and easier for Esri Professional Services or an Esri Business Partner to assist you with data loading.
Depending on the format of your source data, you may choose to copy features into the new layer or layers, or append your source data to the new layers. Once you've determined what source data to load, complete one of the data loading workflows below.
Copy features
To copy features into the target layer or layers, complete the following steps:
- Start ArcGIS Pro and create or open a project.
- Add the source and target layers to a map.
- Copy and paste features from their respective source layer to the target layer.
Repeat this step for each target layer you want to populate with source data.
- Optionally calculate any field values that are not populated from the source layer.
- Review the loaded content.
Append data
In ArcGIS Pro, the Append geoprocessing tool can be used to append multiple input datasets to an existing target dataset. Input databases can be tables; rasters; or point, line, polygon, annotation, or dimensions feature classes. To append your source data to layers, complete the following steps:
- Start ArcGIS Pro and create or open a project.
- Add the source and target layers to a map.
- On the Share tab, in the Deploy group, click ArcGIS Solutions to open the Tasks pane.
- In the Tasks pane, double-click Load Data to open the steps of the task.
- Browse to the Input Datasets and Target Datasets options.
- Choose Use the Field Map to reconcile schema differences as the Schema Type to perform field mapping.
- Click Run.
- Repeat steps 5 through 7 for each target layer you want to populate with source data. Once you've finished loading your data, click New Step.
- Optionally calculate any field values that were not populated from the source layer. Once you've finished calculating field values, click Finish to exit the task steps.
- Review the loaded content.