The fields of the attribute table of the raster in the ccatalog window

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The fields of the attribute table of the raster in the catalog window

I�??m wondering why the �??catalog view�?� of doesn�??t show the fields of the attribute table of raster as main component of its properties while it does so for polygons, polyline and points?
[ATTACH=CONFIG]14652[/ATTACH], [ATTACH=CONFIG]14653[/ATTACH]

Thank you for the help,

Best

Jamal

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EricRice · Answer

That raster is floating point.  You must have an integer raster to build attribute tables.

Eric

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Anonymous User · Answer

Original User: Jamal432@gmail.comJamal,

You can't have a feature class of point, line, or polygon without also having an attribute table.  "Fields" is something that is common to all of those and thus they have a shared UI.  Raster data on the other hand, does not always have a table.  Multiband imagery doesn't support tables, nor does 32 bit float.  Integer data can support a table, but depending on the data it may be built automatically or it could be up to you to run the Build Raster Attribute Table tool to force a table to be built.  Because of the lack of uniformity among the various types of raster data with respect to attribute tables, they do not have a shared "Fields" tab in the properties dialog.

Regards,
Eric

I appreciate your continuous help Erc.

I tried to create a table for the �??rainfallvolume�?� raster but sounds not to work.

What might be the reason in this case?

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EricRice · Answer

Jamal,

You can't have a feature class of point, line, or polygon without also having an attribute table.  "Fields" is something that is common to all of those and thus they have a shared UI.  Raster data on the other hand, does not always have a table.  Multiband imagery doesn't support tables, nor does 32 bit float.  Integer data can support a table, but depending on the data it may be built automatically or it could be up to you to run the Build Raster Attribute Table tool to force a table to be built.  Because of the lack of uniformity among the various types of raster data with respect to attribute tables, they do not have a shared "Fields" tab in the properties dialog.

Regards,
Eric