topic assign default to field not working in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/assign-default-to-field-not-working/m-p/673726#M38192 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>i have a featureclass - myfeatureclass. it has around 3000 features.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>myfeatureclass has a column subtype - which is integer type and it has two subtypes- 0 and 1. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I added a column mynewfield to that feature class</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I tried to assign default to mynewfield using the arctoolbox. I specified default values for both of my subtypes 0 and 1. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>it says that it ran successfully</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>but when i go to arcmap, start an edit session and add new points, the default value of mynewfield never appears... mynewfield always shows as null.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>i tried saving the edit session...but still mynewfield had value of null, it did not put default value... </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>pl help</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks a lot....</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:33:27 GMT AshakaThakore 2012-12-26T03:33:27Z assign default to field not working https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/assign-default-to-field-not-working/m-p/673726#M38192 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>i have a featureclass - myfeatureclass. it has around 3000 features.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>myfeatureclass has a column subtype - which is integer type and it has two subtypes- 0 and 1. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I added a column mynewfield to that feature class</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I tried to assign default to mynewfield using the arctoolbox. I specified default values for both of my subtypes 0 and 1. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>it says that it ran successfully</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>but when i go to arcmap, start an edit session and add new points, the default value of mynewfield never appears... mynewfield always shows as null.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>i tried saving the edit session...but still mynewfield had value of null, it did not put default value... </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>pl help</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks a lot....</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:33:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/assign-default-to-field-not-working/m-p/673726#M38192 AshakaThakore 2012-12-26T03:33:27Z