topic Re: Double field type not honoring precision in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/double-field-type-not-honoring-precision/m-p/473764#M26990 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The ID field in a shapefile is integer at its creation if it is being created in ArcMap.&nbsp; How/where is the ID field being created with anything other than integer ?&nbsp; There were some issues of float versus double in recent versions but they were in geodatabases.&nbsp; How does Tom Tom enter into this? Perhaps there implementation is different from others.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:06:27 GMT DanPatterson_Retired 2017-02-02T19:06:27Z Double field type not honoring precision https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/double-field-type-not-honoring-precision/m-p/473763#M26989 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am using ArcMap for Desktop 10.5 and am trying to add a new field(Type=Double, Precision=15, Scale=0). However, when ArcMap creates the new field, it is creating it as (Type=Double, Precision=0, Scale=0). I've tried adding new fields with Precision values of 12, 10 and 2 and when I right-click on each of the new fields and go to Properties the Precision value is set to zero (see ESRI_ID2.PNG). I have tried this on a different computer running ArcMap 10.3 and the new field is set to Precision=15.</P><P></P><P>This is the case when manually adding a new field within ArcMap, or when using the AddField Tool within a python script. I am processing TomTom shapefile street data and noticed that the ID values are being rounded and the last 3 digits are replaced with zero's (ESRI_field.PNG).</P><P></P><P>Are there any ideas out here on why adding new Double type fields reverts the Precision value to zero? Is it a bug in 10.5? Is there a setting somewhere that I missed? Is my ArcMap messed up and needs to be reinstalled?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:38:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/double-field-type-not-honoring-precision/m-p/473763#M26989 DanGerken 2017-02-02T14:38:24Z Re: Double field type not honoring precision https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/double-field-type-not-honoring-precision/m-p/473764#M26990 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The ID field in a shapefile is integer at its creation if it is being created in ArcMap.&nbsp; How/where is the ID field being created with anything other than integer ?&nbsp; There were some issues of float versus double in recent versions but they were in geodatabases.&nbsp; How does Tom Tom enter into this? Perhaps there implementation is different from others.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:06:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/double-field-type-not-honoring-precision/m-p/473764#M26990 DanPatterson_Retired 2017-02-02T19:06:27Z