https://community.esri.com/t5/modelbuilder-ideas/option-to-supress-field-calculator-warning-dialog/idi-p/955388 <P>I ran into an issue with model builder where I was calculating a string field to a new numberic (integer field).&nbsp; The majority of the data in my string field were valid integer values but there were 2 or 3 records that had alpha characters in the data.&nbsp; When I manually run the tool in th model I get the normal warning from the field calculator that it has encountered a record that can not be converted but I have the ability to continue an process the rest of the rows, while the offending values/rows are skipped.&nbsp; I was okay with skipping the rows but didn't want to have to answer the warning dialog each time I run the model/tool.&nbsp; I would like an option to supress warning dialogs of all kinds in model builder.&nbsp; This would be similar to supressing warning messages in MS Access when you run a series of macros.&nbsp; If a model/tool/python script stops to prompt the user each time there is a not-fatal error, such as this warning, it ruins the ability to autmoate the process using scripting techniques.</P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087E0000000kCmO --> Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:38:57 GMT VinceGuillet 2023-01-17T17:38:57Z https://community.esri.com/t5/modelbuilder-ideas/option-to-supress-field-calculator-warning-dialog/idi-p/955388 <P>I ran into an issue with model builder where I was calculating a string field to a new numberic (integer field).&nbsp; The majority of the data in my string field were valid integer values but there were 2 or 3 records that had alpha characters in the data.&nbsp; When I manually run the tool in th model I get the normal warning from the field calculator that it has encountered a record that can not be converted but I have the ability to continue an process the rest of the rows, while the offending values/rows are skipped.&nbsp; I was okay with skipping the rows but didn't want to have to answer the warning dialog each time I run the model/tool.&nbsp; I would like an option to supress warning dialogs of all kinds in model builder.&nbsp; This would be similar to supressing warning messages in MS Access when you run a series of macros.&nbsp; If a model/tool/python script stops to prompt the user each time there is a not-fatal error, such as this warning, it ruins the ability to autmoate the process using scripting techniques.</P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087E0000000kCmO --> Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:38:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/modelbuilder-ideas/option-to-supress-field-calculator-warning-dialog/idi-p/955388 VinceGuillet 2023-01-17T17:38:57Z https://community.esri.com/t5/modelbuilder-ideas/option-to-supress-field-calculator-warning-dialog/idc-p/1290221#M293 <P>I'm always amazed when I find good, reasonable ideas that have been here for years.&nbsp; Take this for example, it's got a good use case, it's been suggested as an idea, a few people have liked it, but here it sits 7 years later!</P><P>Suppressing messages needs to be implemented in model building.</P> Wed, 17 May 2023 17:46:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/modelbuilder-ideas/option-to-supress-field-calculator-warning-dialog/idc-p/1290221#M293 JamiePetersen 2023-05-17T17:46:45Z