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Posted on January 14, 2023 (Updated on July 10, 2025)

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Why is my field calculator greyed out?

Additionally, the Field Calculator is disabled when the layer is not editable due to the following causes: The editing capabilities of the layer is not enabled. The layer type is non-editable in ArcGIS Pro. The table type is non-editable in ArcGIS Pro.
 

How do I use field in ArcGIS calculator?

Making simple field calculations

  1. Start an edit session.
  2. Right-click the layer or table you want to edit and open its table.
  3. Right-click the field heading for which you want to make a calculation and click Field Calculator.
  4. Use the Fields list and Functions to build a calculation expression.
  5. Click OK.


Why is calculated field not working?

If you are not seeing a calculation appear in your Field, check whether you have ‘N/A’ selected under Blank Field Handling. This will prevent your calculation from working until all Fields have been filled out, including Fields in a conditional Section/Sub-section that wasn’t triggered.
 

What is a field calculator?

The Field Calculator. button in the attribute table allows you to perform calculations on the basis of existing attribute values or defined functions, for instance, to calculate length or area of geometry features.

Why is field calculator not working in ArcGIS?

Reasons the Field Calculator might be disabled



The table’s data source is read-only, write access can’t be established to the folder or geodatabase, or the data source is a format that can’t normally be modified in ArcMap.

How do you edit calculated field?

On the Analyze tab, in the Calculations group, click Fields, Items, & Sets, and then click Calculated Field. In the Name box, select the calculated field for which you want to change the formula. In the Formula box, edit the formula. Click Modify.

Why can’t I calculate field in ArcGIS?

If the Calculate Field command is unavailable, consider the following possibilities: A field that is managed by ArcGIS cannot be edited manually. Consequently, you cannot calculate field values for the ObjectID (OID or FID) field or the Shape_Length and Shape_Area fields for a geodatabase feature class.

Why is field calculator grayed out in ArcMap?

Reasons the Field Calculator might be disabled



The table’s data source is read-only, write access can’t be established to the folder or geodatabase, or the data source is a format that can’t normally be modified in ArcMap.

Why is calculate field greyed out when editing pivot table?

Drop the data into Excel into a table. If you try to pivot off this data, the calculated field will still be grayed out. BUT, if you make a dynamic range on the table and create a new pivot table that references the dynamic range of the table instead of the table itself, the calculated field will not be grayed out.
 

Why I Cannot add calculated field to PivotTable?

When you use the data model you cannot add calculated fields and calculated items as these tools are for regular PivotTables only. Instead you must use DAX functions to write calculated columns or measures.
 

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