Showing posts with label Background Processing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Background Processing. Show all posts

Monday, November 5, 2012

It looks like after installing ArcGIS 10.1 SP1, if you have background processing enabled for geoprocessing, you cannot use a VB expression type for the calculate fields tool. Even though VB is still the default expression type.

So if you have a script that calls arcpy.AddField_management() without defining Python as the expression type its not going to run if background processing is enabled...