idea Update help to explain what error code 002557 is and why it happened in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Update help to explain what error code 002557 is and why it happened

DuncanHornby — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:14:23 GMT

I ran the delete field tool deliberately on a geopackage to see what happens and I got an error message. This did not surprise me as I have read in the help that I cannot drop fields in a geopackage featureclass. Whilst that is something I would like ESRI to resolve what I was surprised is that there is no documentation on error code 002557 as you can see below.

Re: Update help to explain what error code 002557 is and why it happened

DanPatterson — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:55:06 GMT

002557 pops up in the strangest places for different reasons

BUG-000143509: The Delete Field tool in ArcGIS Pro fails to execute.. (esri.com)

# -- accessed via arcpy and numpy # 2557 is there, must be new messages array([['2555', 'The ArcGIS Data Store (relational) is in read-only mode and new items cannot be published. Please check available disk space.'], ['2556', 'Attribute rule not found: %s.'], ['2557', 'Cannot delete field %1 from %2.'], ['2558', 'Must specify attribute rule names.'], ['2559', 'Invalid combination of arguments.']], dtype='<U125')

Re: Update help to explain what error code 002557 is and why it happened

DuncanHornby — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:26:34 GMT

@DanPatterson , interesting you found that bug report, I did search online help for the code and could not find anything specific. Interesting the error message is for a completely different scenario, deleting all fields in a shapefile and I was trying to simply delete a single field from a geopackage. Either way does seem like the help documentation needs to be updated.

Re: Update help to explain what error code 002557 is and why it happened - Status changed to: Closed

MarkZollinger — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:42:06 GMT

Thank you for reporting this @DuncanHornby

We are going to treat this as a bug (something that needs fixing) instead of an idea (new feature request) I'm closing this Idea because I've opened an issue for it in our internal doc feedback repository.

Regards,

-Mark Z