topic Creating a shapefile from a featureclass with Globalid field in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/creating-a-shapefile-from-a-featureclass-with/m-p/703055#M54442 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm currently using ArcView 9.2, working on a file geodatabase created with 9.3.1. A featureclass that I use contains a field of type 'Globalid'. When I try to perform a Clip_analysis using this featureclass as the input layer, and save the results as a shapefile, the clip fails with this message</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Traceback (most recent call last):<BR />&nbsp; File "&lt;interactive input&gt;", line 1, in ?<BR />RuntimeError: <BR />Error in creating output z:\TestArea\inlets.shp<BR />The Field type is invalid or unsupported for the operation. [GLOBALID]<BR />Failed to execute (Clip).</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN>I've tried DeleteField_management, which fails also. The only command I've found that works is Feature Class to Feature Class, by deleting the GLOBALID field from the field list.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone know of a method to </SPAN><STRONG>programmatically</STRONG><SPAN> ignore this field, without changing the source data?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:28:56 GMT BruceNielsen 2011-07-22T17:28:56Z Creating a shapefile from a featureclass with Globalid field https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/creating-a-shapefile-from-a-featureclass-with/m-p/703055#M54442 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm currently using ArcView 9.2, working on a file geodatabase created with 9.3.1. A featureclass that I use contains a field of type 'Globalid'. When I try to perform a Clip_analysis using this featureclass as the input layer, and save the results as a shapefile, the clip fails with this message</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Traceback (most recent call last):<BR />&nbsp; File "&lt;interactive input&gt;", line 1, in ?<BR />RuntimeError: <BR />Error in creating output z:\TestArea\inlets.shp<BR />The Field type is invalid or unsupported for the operation. [GLOBALID]<BR />Failed to execute (Clip).</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN>I've tried DeleteField_management, which fails also. The only command I've found that works is Feature Class to Feature Class, by deleting the GLOBALID field from the field list.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone know of a method to </SPAN><STRONG>programmatically</STRONG><SPAN> ignore this field, without changing the source data?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:28:56 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/creating-a-shapefile-from-a-featureclass-with/m-p/703055#M54442 BruceNielsen 2011-07-22T17:28:56Z