idea Ainclude option to populate new field in ArcGIS Pro Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/ainclude-option-to-populate-new-field/idi-p/938838 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As part of the add field dialog, one option should be to pre-populate the entire field with a value.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:47:08 GMT SimonMorgan 2010-08-06T12:47:08Z Ainclude option to populate new field https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/ainclude-option-to-populate-new-field/idi-p/938838 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As part of the add field dialog, one option should be to pre-populate the entire field with a value.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:47:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/ainclude-option-to-populate-new-field/idi-p/938838 SimonMorgan 2010-08-06T12:47:08Z Re: Ainclude option to populate new field https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/ainclude-option-to-populate-new-field/idc-p/938839#M4964 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>For almost all of my text fields I would like to use a space ("&nbsp;") character as a default value, but it cannot be done.&nbsp;&nbsp;Also there is no way to add a field to existing data and&nbsp;make it&nbsp;Required without problems being generated from the Null values that initialize the field.&nbsp; So&nbsp;please combine this suggestion with the ability to add retroactively Required fields that&nbsp;are prepopulated with a default value,&nbsp;and include the ability to&nbsp;specify a space (" ") character as a default value.<BR /><BR />Rich <!-- content transformation source ID: 00a30000007hWgj --> </BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:38:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/ainclude-option-to-populate-new-field/idc-p/938839#M4964 RichardFairhurst 2010-08-06T14:38:14Z