topic Arcgis Pro 2.4.1: Calculate Field Error in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Arcgis Pro 2.4.1: Calculate Field Error

JohnDiaz — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 22:16:37 GMT

Hey guys just a heads up if you have not already discovered this, but if you have a joined table and try to calculate field from the joined field using Python 3, it will throw a syntax error every time.

Just use Arcade instead, but be sure to use the proper syntax if you are doing anything aside from a straight field dump.

Another funky observation is that if you try to validate the Arcade expression, it will say 'invalid expression', but the tool runs successfully. See below:

Re: Arcgis Pro 2.4.1: Calculate Field Error

LanceCole — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:49:23 GMT

John Diaz‌,

Try importing your shapefile into a GDB as a table before preforming a Join or Relate. This can be completed many ways, such as from Catalog, right click on your GDB and select Import > Table(s). Then perfor the join on this table in your GDB not the CSV.

Re: Arcgis Pro 2.4.1: Calculate Field Error

BrittanyBurson — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 18:22:16 GMT

Thank you for this post with encouraged me to click "Run" even though I had the same error, "Invalid Expression Datasource could not be found". It indeed worked for me too!
In my case I created a join between an AGOL hosted feature service + a local GDB table and field calculated from the joined table. The validate throws the error, but it did successfully calculate. Hopefully this is fixed in 2.6

Re: Arcgis Pro 2.4.1: Calculate Field Error

Alex_Arr — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:32:47 GMT

Thanks, this worked for me.