Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Entering data field by hand in Arc GIS

Problem: You've opened your attribute table and created a new field. It auto-populated with 0's, and no matter how many times you click those cells, it won't let you edit the attribute table.

Solution: Right click the layer and go to "Edit Features" -> "Start Editing". When you're done, go to the Editor toolbar (if it's not active, click the button around the top center that looks like a pencil connecting dots), then editor dropdown -> "Save Edits" then "Stop Editing".

It seems that you cannot add a field in the editor mode... curious.

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