Timeline for Model builder: select feature based on attribute, iterator?

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Oct 24, 2012 at 1:39	answer	added	Aaron♦		timeline score: 2
Oct 23, 2012 at 23:57	answer	added	PolyGeo♦		timeline score: 1
Oct 23, 2012 at 23:45	review	First posts
Oct 24, 2012 at 7:22
Oct 23, 2012 at 23:42	comment	added	sandra		What I want to achieve is indeed the simple task that you described, I want to assign all the lines that fall into the polygon to the polygon. I tried intersect first, the problem though is that the lines that fall in more than one polygons (e.g. overlap the boundaries) are not assigned or assigned to the wrong polygon. So when I use the clip feature it splits those lines at the polygon's boundaries.
Oct 23, 2012 at 23:34	comment	added	PolyGeo♦		It may be worth including a diagram showing what you are trying to achieve. My first question would be: when a polygon has more than one line passing through it which line do you choose as the one whose attributes will get transferred to it? Or are you really trying to join polygon attributes onto any lines that pass through them? The latter may be very easy (if your polygons have no overlap between themselves) using the Intersect tool.
Oct 23, 2012 at 23:31	history	edited	Aaron♦	CC BY-SA 3.0	formatting
Oct 23, 2012 at 23:27	history	asked	sandra	CC BY-SA 3.0