assistance with exercises

ErikRau

Good day from a new MapSAR student in Oregon. I'm guessing this is will be an ignominious entry into the forum, as I have what is probably a trivial question.

As I work through the exercises provided on mapsar.net, I have run into a repeated problem with the first task in Chapter 8 (on page 177 of Using GIS for Wildland...). I edited the attribute table for 'Operation_Periods,' but left the '@#Period*' and 'End Date/Time' columns blank, stopped editing and saved edits, and was able to Update_Domains successfully, but the aforementioned values remained <Null>, and didn't auto-populate. If I go back and manually add values to either of those columns, I get the following error:

Executing: Model42
Start Time: Mon Dec 31 15:10:27 2012
Executing (Table To Domain): TableToDomain C:\MapSAR\20120508_Pinecrest_Search_Danny_UTM11\SAR_Default.gdb\Search_Segments Area_Name Area_Name C:\MapSAR\20120508_Pinecrest_Search_Danny_UTM11\SAR_Default.gdb Areas Areas REPLACE
Start Time: Mon Dec 31 15:10:28 2012
Succeeded at Mon Dec 31 15:10:28 2012 (Elapsed Time: 0.00 seconds)
Executing (Table To Domain (3)): TableToDomain C:\MapSAR\20120508_Pinecrest_Search_Danny_UTM11\SAR_Default.gdb\Teams Team_Name Team_Name C:\MapSAR\20120508_Pinecrest_Search_Danny_UTM11\SAR_Default.gdb Teams Teams REPLACE
Start Time: Mon Dec 31 15:10:28 2012
Succeeded at Mon Dec 31 15:10:29 2012 (Elapsed Time: 1.00 seconds)
Executing (Table To Domain (4)): TableToDomain C:\MapSAR\20120508_Pinecrest_Search_Danny_UTM11\SAR_Default.gdb\Incident\Operation_Period Period PeriodText C:\MapSAR\20120508_Pinecrest_Search_Danny_UTM11\SAR_Default.gdb Period PeriodText REPLACE
Start Time: Mon Dec 31 15:10:29 2012
ERROR 999999: Error executing function.
The name of an entry in the CodedValueDomain is empty.
The name of an entry in the CodedValueDomain is empty. [domain name: Period]
Failed to execute (Table To Domain (4)).
Failed at Mon Dec 31 15:10:29 2012 (Elapsed Time: 0.00 seconds)
Failed to execute (Model42).
Failed at Mon Dec 31 15:10:29 2012 (Elapsed Time: 2.00 seconds)

I tried trashing the entire exercise directory and re-downloading, but encountered the same problem. Suggestions?
I'm running ArcMap 10.0 in Win7, and have generally had good functionality (except the occaisional lag due to a non-optimized laptop).

ErikRau

Many thanks to you both for your prompt replies, and apologies that I didn't seem to stay engaged. In reality, I've been fighting to get back to working on this, as I really enjoy fiddling with MapSAR, but am sadly lacking in technical expertise.

At any rate, I tried both of your solutions, in order, and it didn't solve the problem. I plowed ahead to the next series, however, but am still getting the following error message when updating domains:

Executing: Model42
Start Time: Wed Jan 23 17:42:39 2013
Executing (Table To Domain): TableToDomain C:\MapSAR\8_mapsar_ex_data_final\20120508_Pinecrest_Search_Danny_UTM11\SAR_Default.gdb\Search_Segments Area_Name Area_Name C:\MapSAR\8_mapsar_ex_data_final\20120508_Pinecrest_Search_Danny_UTM11\SAR_Default.gdb Areas Areas REPLACE
Start Time: Wed Jan 23 17:42:40 2013
Succeeded at Wed Jan 23 17:42:41 2013 (Elapsed Time: 1.00 seconds)
Executing (Table To Domain (3)): TableToDomain C:\MapSAR\8_mapsar_ex_data_final\20120508_Pinecrest_Search_Danny_UTM11\SAR_Default.gdb\Teams Team_Name Team_Name C:\MapSAR\8_mapsar_ex_data_final\20120508_Pinecrest_Search_Danny_UTM11\SAR_Default.gdb Teams Teams REPLACE
Start Time: Wed Jan 23 17:42:41 2013
Succeeded at Wed Jan 23 17:42:41 2013 (Elapsed Time: 0.00 seconds)
Executing (Table To Domain (4)): TableToDomain C:\MapSAR\8_mapsar_ex_data_final\20120508_Pinecrest_Search_Danny_UTM11\SAR_Default.gdb\Incident\Operation_Period Period PeriodText C:\MapSAR\8_mapsar_ex_data_final\20120508_Pinecrest_Search_Danny_UTM11\SAR_Default.gdb Period PeriodText REPLACE
Start Time: Wed Jan 23 17:42:41 2013
ERROR 999999: Error executing function.
The name of an entry in the CodedValueDomain is empty.
The name of an entry in the CodedValueDomain is empty. [domain name: Period]
Failed to execute (Table To Domain (4)).
Failed at Wed Jan 23 17:42:41 2013 (Elapsed Time: 0.00 seconds)
Failed to execute (Model42).
Failed at Wed Jan 23 17:42:41 2013 (Elapsed Time: 2.00 seconds)

This despite the attribute table for Operation_Periods looking like the attached:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]21020[/ATTACH]

mapsar attribute table rau 20130123.jpg