BUG
Running Generate Standard Geography Trade Area geoprocessing tool with Input Type parameter set to Table may fail unexpectedly.
The Geography Key field may be misinterpreted as field type ‘numeric’ in some tables external to ArcGIS Pro. The Geography Key field must be of field type 'text' to successfully run the tool.
Confirm that this issue has been encountered by adding your input table to the ArcGIS Pro contents pane and checking if the Geography Key field is data type ‘text.’ If the field is listed as numeric, the data must be converted to text prior to running the tool.
The data can be converted to text by importing the table to a file geodatabase, adding a new text field, and then calculating geography key values from the original numeric field to the newly added text field.
Checking the Geography Key Field Type
To add your table to the ArcGIS Pro contents pane, click the Map tab in the ribbon and then the Add Data button from within the Layer group. Once the table is added, open the attribute table by right clicking it in the contents pane and selecting Open.
Converting Geography Key Values to Text
Article ID: 000019751
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