Can't use graduated colors because "field does not contain quantitative data"

Question

Hi,

In a layer I have 100 features with a counter attribute of type Long. The values range from 3 to 10000. I'd like to create a graduated color symbology but I'm stuck with this error message.

This field does not contain quantitative data to generate symbology. 
A temporary symbol class has been created.

What's happening 
 ?

Thanks.

remisap · Answer

Hi Dan, the query had indicators of type integer, bigint and double.

After handling the case when view_extent is null, the distribution of values appeared and graduated colors worked !

danretired · Answer

What is in your field? numbers? text that looks like numbers?  Null values are handled by symbology regardless of data type

remisap · Answer

FYI, when a query use the view_extent parameter, the query must complete when the parameter is null, otherwise he query to discover the range of possible values fails which results in this error message.