topic Re: Field Calculator not working in Data Management Questions

Field Calculator not working

PatrickMurphy1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:56:44 GMT

Whilst in editing mode, I want to fill in data for a group of records, when I select them I change the table view just to show what I have selected, and then I right click on the field name and choose "Field Calculator". I type in inverted commas what I want in the field.
The calculate window appears for a fraction of a second then disappears. Nothing happens to the table.

The same issue has happened on two different PCs and on different layer types (Points & Polygon features)
Can anyone help
Pat

Re: Field Calculator not working

JakeSkinner — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:56:15 GMT

Hi Patrick,

If the field is of type Text, you will want to wrap the text in quotes, i.e. "data".

Re: Field Calculator not working

PatrickMurphy1 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:53:35 GMT

Hi Jake
Thanks for the reply.
I have been using the "" anyway.
I was able to sort it out, there is a glitch with Arc Map, what we did to get around it was to re-name the ESRI folder in Applications folder on the C Drive of the effected machines. Once re-named when you log into Arc Map it creates a new ESRI folder, once this is done the Field Calculator functions work again.
This also may help others with a similar problem
Regards
Pat