topic Re: Field Calculator in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/field-calculator/m-p/201327#M11542 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Shanah,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The field calculator can be quite quirky.&nbsp; Below is a link to another related posting.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/41608-error-calculating-a-field-using-field-calculator?p=147189#post147189">http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/41608-error-calculating-a-field-using-field-calculator?p=147189#post147189</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have personally run into a couple of instances where the calculator will not work:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>1. If your layer name in the Table of Contents has extra spaces at the end. (Fix: remove any extra spaces)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>2. If your layer name in the Table of Contents has has a slash "/". (Fix: remove "/")</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I don't know if recent Srvice Packs have addressed these issues.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Josh</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:08:12 GMT JoshThompson1 2012-04-11T14:08:12Z Field Calculator https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/field-calculator/m-p/201325#M11540 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>is it not possible to use the field calculator to populte a matching field in a table join?&nbsp; it's not working for me...field types match, so not sure why it's not working.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:24:43 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/field-calculator/m-p/201325#M11540 ShanaHarmsen 2012-04-06T20:24:43Z Re: Field Calculator https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/field-calculator/m-p/201326#M11541 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Just for clarification, you have a table join and would like to use Field Calculator to populate values from the non-joined fields into a joined field. Is that correct?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Could you please clarify what you mean by a Matching field? Is this the joined field?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:04:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/field-calculator/m-p/201326#M11541 KevinBurke 2012-04-11T14:04:59Z Re: Field Calculator https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/field-calculator/m-p/201327#M11542 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Shanah,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The field calculator can be quite quirky.&nbsp; Below is a link to another related posting.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/41608-error-calculating-a-field-using-field-calculator?p=147189#post147189">http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/41608-error-calculating-a-field-using-field-calculator?p=147189#post147189</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have personally run into a couple of instances where the calculator will not work:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>1. If your layer name in the Table of Contents has extra spaces at the end. (Fix: remove any extra spaces)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>2. If your layer name in the Table of Contents has has a slash "/". (Fix: remove "/")</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I don't know if recent Srvice Packs have addressed these issues.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Josh</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:08:12 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/field-calculator/m-p/201327#M11542 JoshThompson1 2012-04-11T14:08:12Z Re: Field Calculator https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/field-calculator/m-p/201328#M11543 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've got it working - I was just trying to field calculate too much at one time.&nbsp; It was a joined table - where one table had the information I wanted and the other table had the empty field to populate with that information. Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:09:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/field-calculator/m-p/201328#M11543 ShanaHarmsen 2012-04-11T14:09:29Z