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description: Use the Append node to combine the data from two or more nodes. Add an append node to your Data Processing Engine definition when you need to consolidate data from different data sources or datasets into a single dataset for further processing, analysis, or reporting.
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# Appends

Use the Append node to combine the data from two or more nodes. Add an append node to your Data Processing Engine definition when you need to consolidate data from different data sources or datasets into a single dataset for further processing, analysis, or reporting.

### Required Editions

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You can append nodes that match these criteria.

- The field count in each source node must be the same.
- The fields names of each source node must be the same.
- The fields in each source node must be sequenced to ensure that the data types match.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-ind-data_processing_engine-264-0-0-production-enus/80e06924-e6c0-4b82-81cf-e99ccd77d857/images/icon_note.png)

Note An Append node can contain up to 200 fields from two or more source nodes.

If your source nodes don't match one or more of the criteria, select **Unique Source Nodes**. The result contains all the fields from all the selected source nodes.

![Append node](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-ind-data_processing_engine-264-0-0-production-enus/80e06924-e6c0-4b82-81cf-e99ccd77d857/data_processing_engine/images/data_processing_engine_append.png)

![Example](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-ind-data_processing_engine-264-0-0-production-enus/80e06924-e6c0-4b82-81cf-e99ccd77d857/images/icon_example.png)

Example If you have two unique source nodes, such as Contacts and Account, you can append data from the Contact source node to the data from Account source node.