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Resulted in a string but the field is numeric

florenciaog
5 - Atom

Hi, 

I am trying to do the following formula, but I got this error. Could you please help me with a possible solution? Thanks 

 

 

 

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JosephSerpis
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @florenciaog you are updating an existing field as shown by the data type is grey out and is showing you field is a Integer (Int64). Hence the error you are getting as your formula results in a string in a numeric field. Try creating a new field within the formula tool then the data type won't be greyed out and you choose a string field type. By default a new field in a formula will be a string field anyway.

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