topic Losing Field Length on Integer Value when Performing Clip Function in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/losing-field-length-on-integer-value-when/m-p/275763#M15884 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am working with two polygon feature shapefiles. Polygon A is large and must be clipped to Polygon B which is small, relatively. Prior to the clip, the area of Polygon A is calculated. So, a new field is created as a long integer data type with zero precision in Polygon A's attribute table. If the area value calculated is 8 digits long (i.e. 16483254), after the clip operation, the same field and record location will lose a digit and read an area value of 7 digits (i.e. 1648325). Am I doing something wrong? Why do I lose a digit in my area value?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have attached a screen capture of the attribute tables of Polygon A (called all_blocks) and then Polygon A clipped (called all_blocks_clip).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Details on sub operations:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- Area calculated by Coordinate System of the data frame and in sq. feet.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- Polygon A is populated with many attributes that have the data types:Object ID, Geometry, Double and Text</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:18:29 GMT BrookeWeeks1 2011-09-29T16:18:29Z Losing Field Length on Integer Value when Performing Clip Function https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/losing-field-length-on-integer-value-when/m-p/275763#M15884 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am working with two polygon feature shapefiles. Polygon A is large and must be clipped to Polygon B which is small, relatively. Prior to the clip, the area of Polygon A is calculated. So, a new field is created as a long integer data type with zero precision in Polygon A's attribute table. If the area value calculated is 8 digits long (i.e. 16483254), after the clip operation, the same field and record location will lose a digit and read an area value of 7 digits (i.e. 1648325). Am I doing something wrong? Why do I lose a digit in my area value?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have attached a screen capture of the attribute tables of Polygon A (called all_blocks) and then Polygon A clipped (called all_blocks_clip).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Details on sub operations:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- Area calculated by Coordinate System of the data frame and in sq. feet.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- Polygon A is populated with many attributes that have the data types:Object ID, Geometry, Double and Text</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:18:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/losing-field-length-on-integer-value-when/m-p/275763#M15884 BrookeWeeks1 2011-09-29T16:18:29Z