topic How to automatically assign random names on a field in the attribute table? in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/how-to-automatically-assign-random-names-on-a/m-p/706986#M40037 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi there,</P><P></P><P>I have a layer showing the position of some vacant lands in Naples in form of polygons. I need now to assign to each parcel a random name (even just a,b,c,aa,ba,ca,etc.). I have almost 30000 objects here so I really would like to know if there is an operation that would save me from naming the parcel.. one by one manually! I'm doing this because I want to summarize my results, I tried to do that with the default ObjectID but for some reasons the button Summarize can't be executed on that. Please, any suggestion at all?</P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Martina</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:57:33 GMT MartinaTalacchia 2016-09-21T18:57:33Z How to automatically assign random names on a field in the attribute table? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/how-to-automatically-assign-random-names-on-a/m-p/706986#M40037 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi there,</P><P></P><P>I have a layer showing the position of some vacant lands in Naples in form of polygons. I need now to assign to each parcel a random name (even just a,b,c,aa,ba,ca,etc.). I have almost 30000 objects here so I really would like to know if there is an operation that would save me from naming the parcel.. one by one manually! I'm doing this because I want to summarize my results, I tried to do that with the default ObjectID but for some reasons the button Summarize can't be executed on that. Please, any suggestion at all?</P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Martina</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:57:33 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/how-to-automatically-assign-random-names-on-a/m-p/706986#M40037 MartinaTalacchia 2016-09-21T18:57:33Z Re: How to automatically assign random names on a field in the attribute table? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/how-to-automatically-assign-random-names-on-a/m-p/706987#M40038 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Sorry, but you are not going to summarise anything using the OID, because that is unique to each record.</P><P>If you want to add a text field to the polys and do something in field calculator like:</P><P><IMG class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/231867_pastedImage_1.png" /></P><P></P><P>Gets you this :</P><P><IMG class="image-2 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/231868_pastedImage_2.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:25:00 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/how-to-automatically-assign-random-names-on-a/m-p/706987#M40038 NeilAyres 2016-09-21T19:25:00Z Re: How to automatically assign random names on a field in the attribute table? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/how-to-automatically-assign-random-names-on-a/m-p/706988#M40039 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Wow thank you very much! It worked perfectly <IMG src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/happy.png" />&nbsp;Grazie!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:15:50 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/how-to-automatically-assign-random-names-on-a/m-p/706988#M40039 MartinaTalacchia 2016-09-22T11:15:50Z