Blank Attributes

[GregRushing]

Hey guys,
New to ArcPad so I have to ask basic questions...
I have shapefiles in arcpad and am attempting edits for the first time on my Trimble 6000.  It will not allow me to leave blank attributes.  How can I skip an attribute field?

Thanks

[RobertMcCann]

Sounds like you unchecked "Allow NULL value" for those fields in the form.  Open the form in ArcPad Studio and look at the Control Properties for each field you want to have nulls.

If they were checked out from a geodatabase, "Allow NULL Values" was set to "no" on the fields.  You will have to redo your database feature classes so that option is set to "yes" and redo your checkout.  If you just make ArcPad allow NULL values, you face not being able to check in your edits if there are NULL values.

[JamalNUMAN]

Sounds like you unchecked "Allow NULL value" for those fields in the form.  Open the form in ArcPad Studio and look at the Control Properties for each field you want to have nulls.

If they were checked out from a geodatabase, "Allow NULL Values" was set to "no" on the fields.  You will have to redo your database feature classes so that option is set to "yes" and redo your checkout.  If you just make ArcPad allow NULL values, you face not being able to check in your edits if there are NULL values.

Many thanks Robert

The �??allow null values�?� option is available for feature classes but not for shape files.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]27688[/ATTACH], [ATTACH=CONFIG]27689[/ATTACH]


Then how to allow accepting �??null values�?� in the case of shape files. I couldn�??t manage to do it in the studio

[ATTACH=CONFIG]27690[/ATTACH]

Best

Jamal

[HannahFerrier]

Shapefiles do not accept null values. See here for more information...

Hannah 🙂

[JamalNUMAN]

Shapefiles do not accept null values. See here for more information...

Hannah 🙂

Many thanks Hannah. Good to know this fact

Best

Jamal