topic Re: Copy/Paste in Attribute Window overwrites Read Only Fields in Data Management Questions

Copy/Paste in Attribute Window overwrites Read Only Fields

FrankLahm_III — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:33:40 GMT

Hello,

It appears that the Copy/Paste function in the attribute window overwrites fields that are set to read only. I had an editor copy/paste attributes from one polygon to many and the fields that were set to read only were overwritten.

Has anyone else notice this? Shouldn't a field be read only if you set it to read only in the Layer Properties? Is this a bug?

Thanks
-frank

Re: Copy/Paste in Attribute Window overwrites Read Only Fields

RhondaGlennon — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:17:34 GMT

This looks like a bug. A field does stay read-only if you try to paste into that one cell. However, if you use Paste Attributes to paste all of them, it will update the read-only field. We'll look at fixing this in an upcoming service pack.

Re: Copy/Paste in Attribute Window overwrites Read Only Fields

ErikEklund — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:15:33 GMT

I had the same problem earlier this year with ArcGis 10.1.
It seems to work now with sp 1.