Auto Field Tool documentation needs updated to say that "T", "F" values will be converted

[amtraker1777]

Auto Field Tool automatically converts F and T values to False and True.  I have no idea why and there is no way to toggle this off.  It says nothing about this in the documentation.  Its documentation needs to be updated to reflect this.

[alexnajm]

Can you just uncheck the column in the AutoField tool so it doesn't get evaluated?

[amtraker1777]

Yes, but the field I am working with contains a lot of other values beside T and F.  I would prefer Auto Field Tool have a toggle button that I would have to toggle to On that would convert T and F values to True and False.  The default state should be Off.

[amtraker1777]

Keep in mind the documentation for this tool says absolutely nothing about this conversion logic being built-in.  It required investigation.

[alexnajm]

I am not sure I am able to replicate this behavior, can you post a sample workflow showing this? Here is my attempt:

[apathetichell]

I think I saw this on some versions of Atleryx --- and as I remember it --- it only occurred in fields with values of null/T or F ---> and basically it said that a boolean value took up less memory than a string. 

[alexnajm]

Ah @apathetichell , then that makes sense to me!

@amtraker1777 uncheck the box and you should be good - it makes sense that the Auto Field tool would evaluate those as boolean, although yes it should probably be better documented.

[amtraker1777]

Better documentation? There is nothing about this in the documentation. It needs to be added or else other could fall victim to this like I did.

[amtraker1777]

Even though there were at least 40 other distinct values besides T and F, it still changed the T and F values.  I can understand if there were only T, F and Null values, but in my case there were a lot of other values besides T & F, some even being multiple characters in length.  It makes no sense to me why it would do this.

[alexnajm]

Can you give us a sample then to play with? It may be just a defect if we are unable to replicate the behavior