https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/support-scale-and-precision-parameters-arcpy/idi-p/969234 <P>If executing the 'arcpy.AddField_management()' function against a File Geodatabase, the 'Scale' and 'Precision' parameters are ignored.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />This means that in order to set these properties, you have to create an empty feature class, and then &nbsp;use 'arcpy.FeatureClassToFeatureClass_conversion' and create a series of Field Maps in order to set the field properties.<BR /><BR />Not only is that inefficient (I have to create two feature classes, then go back and delete the first) but Scale and Precision are very basic properties of a Geodatabase field.<BR /><BR />FeatureClassToFeatureClass_conversion should not be required just to set such basic properties, I should not need to type like 10 lines of code or possibly more, depending on how many fields I need to add, &nbsp;just to be able to set 'Scale' and 'Precision' for a File Geodatabase field.</P><P>You need to fix this like...yesterday, ESRI.</P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087E00000004lam --> Wed, 16 Jun 2021 21:43:30 GMT JohnDye 2021-06-16T21:43:30Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/support-scale-and-precision-parameters-arcpy/idi-p/969234 <P>If executing the 'arcpy.AddField_management()' function against a File Geodatabase, the 'Scale' and 'Precision' parameters are ignored.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />This means that in order to set these properties, you have to create an empty feature class, and then &nbsp;use 'arcpy.FeatureClassToFeatureClass_conversion' and create a series of Field Maps in order to set the field properties.<BR /><BR />Not only is that inefficient (I have to create two feature classes, then go back and delete the first) but Scale and Precision are very basic properties of a Geodatabase field.<BR /><BR />FeatureClassToFeatureClass_conversion should not be required just to set such basic properties, I should not need to type like 10 lines of code or possibly more, depending on how many fields I need to add, &nbsp;just to be able to set 'Scale' and 'Precision' for a File Geodatabase field.</P><P>You need to fix this like...yesterday, ESRI.</P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087E00000004lam --> Wed, 16 Jun 2021 21:43:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/support-scale-and-precision-parameters-arcpy/idi-p/969234 JohnDye 2021-06-16T21:43:30Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/support-scale-and-precision-parameters-arcpy/idc-p/1376584#M28259 <P>The precision values of numeric data types in file geodatabase are not configurable by the user. All numeric data types are created with a standard precision value, which is the max precision for the data type.&nbsp;</P><P>For the ability to alter the precision or scale of a numeric data type, the data must be stored in an enterprise geodatabase backed by one of the supported RDBMS</P> Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:08:33 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/support-scale-and-precision-parameters-arcpy/idc-p/1376584#M28259 SSWoodward 2024-01-31T17:08:33Z