topic Annotation with Null Area/Length in Cartography and Maps Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/cartography-and-maps-questions/annotation-with-null-area-length/m-p/801842#M338 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a bunch of annotations in my anno layer with Null values in SHAPE.STArea() and SHAPE.STLength() fields. This seems to make them not appear, even when Placed.</P><P></P><P>They are part of feature linked annotation and these null values all are related to recently created and updated features. I created the features, then ran a couple of arcpy cursor to update their attributes. There are 38 features that the last cursor updated, and these feature all have null Shape fields.</P><P></P><P>The annotation uses an expression that includes the fields that the cursors updated, so I'm guessing that's somehow part the problem. I just don't know if there's a way to update the annotation layer to correct itself, or if I just have to delete and re-create all the misbehaving features.</P><P></P><P>Any idea what's going on or how to fix it? Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:54:22 GMT PerryKesselbaum 2015-03-31T20:54:22Z Annotation with Null Area/Length https://community.esri.com/t5/cartography-and-maps-questions/annotation-with-null-area-length/m-p/801842#M338 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a bunch of annotations in my anno layer with Null values in SHAPE.STArea() and SHAPE.STLength() fields. This seems to make them not appear, even when Placed.</P><P></P><P>They are part of feature linked annotation and these null values all are related to recently created and updated features. I created the features, then ran a couple of arcpy cursor to update their attributes. There are 38 features that the last cursor updated, and these feature all have null Shape fields.</P><P></P><P>The annotation uses an expression that includes the fields that the cursors updated, so I'm guessing that's somehow part the problem. I just don't know if there's a way to update the annotation layer to correct itself, or if I just have to delete and re-create all the misbehaving features.</P><P></P><P>Any idea what's going on or how to fix it? Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:54:22 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/cartography-and-maps-questions/annotation-with-null-area-length/m-p/801842#M338 PerryKesselbaum 2015-03-31T20:54:22Z Re: Annotation with Null Area/Length https://community.esri.com/t5/cartography-and-maps-questions/annotation-with-null-area-length/m-p/801843#M339 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I didn't do any further testing, but I suspect this is some kind of arcpy issue (either with feature linked annotation, versioned data, or some combination of the two.) I ended up deleting the features, running all cursors on local copies of the data, and then reloading it in the SDE and all my labels were generated properly as expected.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:25:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/cartography-and-maps-questions/annotation-with-null-area-length/m-p/801843#M339 PerryKesselbaum 2015-04-03T12:25:27Z