I want to go through a folder and subfolders to copy some files in a gdb. At the moment I have tried to do it using the iterator file and the Copy tool. The problem is all the files have the same name, then I would need to rename and give them a only name before to copy them in the gdb.
I am not too sure how I could rename them automatically, any advice?
Best Answer
Model builder has two built in system variables that you can use with in-line variable substitution to automatically rename files and give them unique names.
From the ESRI documentation on Examples of in-line variable substitution with ModelBuilder system variables:
Using the %i% system variable with in-line variable substitution
Using the %n% system variable with in-line variable substitution
If you are using Iterate Feature Classes, you could combine the Name variable with the system variable in some tool's output parameter: