topic Data loss when exporting shapefile? in ArcGIS Online Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/data-loss-when-exporting-shapefile/m-p/743361#M36602 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="color: #4c4c4c; background-color: #ffffff;">We have a polygon feature layer our field crews are updating using Arc Collector. It's a feature with about 240,000 polygons (a vector grid). </SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #4c4c4c; background-color: #ffffff;">The field crews are entering integer values into one of three columns. There is a conditional column that is turned on (text saying 'Yes') whenever a value greater than 0 is placed in one of the integer columns. </SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #4c4c4c; background-color: #ffffff;">Recently, exporting this feature layer as a shape file, its attribute data did not contain any of the recorded integer values. However, it did contain the 'Yes' entries for each polygon that would have had integer values entered. We found that when exporting the csv version of the feature data, the integer values were preserved. </SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #4c4c4c; background-color: #ffffff;">Is there a good/systematic reason the shapefile export would drop the integer data, but the csv export would keep it?</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 May 2018 22:54:34 GMT DHCDHC 2018-05-28T22:54:34Z Data loss when exporting shapefile? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/data-loss-when-exporting-shapefile/m-p/743361#M36602 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="color: #4c4c4c; background-color: #ffffff;">We have a polygon feature layer our field crews are updating using Arc Collector. It's a feature with about 240,000 polygons (a vector grid). </SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #4c4c4c; background-color: #ffffff;">The field crews are entering integer values into one of three columns. There is a conditional column that is turned on (text saying 'Yes') whenever a value greater than 0 is placed in one of the integer columns. </SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #4c4c4c; background-color: #ffffff;">Recently, exporting this feature layer as a shape file, its attribute data did not contain any of the recorded integer values. However, it did contain the 'Yes' entries for each polygon that would have had integer values entered. We found that when exporting the csv version of the feature data, the integer values were preserved. </SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #4c4c4c; background-color: #ffffff;">Is there a good/systematic reason the shapefile export would drop the integer data, but the csv export would keep it?</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 May 2018 22:54:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/data-loss-when-exporting-shapefile/m-p/743361#M36602 DHCDHC 2018-05-28T22:54:34Z Re: Data loss when exporting shapefile? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/data-loss-when-exporting-shapefile/m-p/743362#M36603 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>can you show the shapefile's table</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 May 2018 23:04:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/data-loss-when-exporting-shapefile/m-p/743362#M36603 DanPatterson_Retired 2018-05-28T23:04:59Z