Disallowing “empty” value for a field without applying the “default value” option,

[JamalNUMAN]

Disallowing “empty” value for a field without applying the “default value” option,

For example, in the screenshot below, as a feature is digitized, its value in the “f2” field gets empty. What I wanted here is to avoid having an empty value and thus once a new feature is digitized, then the ArcMap shall ask for an entry for that feature for the “f2” field. I’m aware of that the “default value” could be a solution, however, I need the data entry to be forcibly required to choose a value from the list to avoid the empty value.

Thank you

Best

Jamal

[AhmadSALEH1]

Dear Jamal,

Have you tried feature templates (F.T)? if the field f2 has a number of known values lets say (v1,v2,v3) you can create 3 feature templates an each time you can assign deferent value for f2. When the user start editing your F.C he will have 3 F.T and he should select one of them to digitize the point the values of f2 will be entered directly based on what was defined in the feature template.

 

Thanks,

Ahmad

[JamalNUMAN]

Thanks Ahmad.

I wanted to fix this issue at the level of Desktop so that it can be inherited when the layer is published and consumed in a web mapping application. With the solution you have already proposed, I think this might not work