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Union tool creating duplicate columns

akateman
5 - Atom

Hello,

 

It was my understanding the union tool would two columns, with the same name together and bring that data into one column. Instead it's creating two columns:

 

For example

 

Workflow 1: Column Title: Unit

Workflow 2: Column Title: Unit

Insert Union tool between Workflow 1 and 2

Results: 2 columns: Unit and Unit2

 

What I have tried to resolve this:

1. Make sure the columns are the same datatype

2. Cleanse for spaces

3. Setting the Union tool to manual to chane the layout

1 REPLY 1
shancmiralles
11 - Bolide

hi! Check the Header/column names if one of them got trailing white spaces @akateman 

so for example:
Column

 Column

 

They might look the same but the 2nd one has a space before the word column.