Hello I have encountered some immediate trouble trying to run ROOT. I am getting the Required Field: ““name” not found” error. However, the name field is present in the csv and I cannot detect any spaces or other potential issues. I upload an example here of the impact potential raster table csv w…

Hi @lukezw , Are you sure that the error is referring to the Impact Potential Raster Table and not one of the others (Spatial Weight Maps Table, Composite Factors Table, Objectives Table, or Targets Table)? They all require a column labeled “name”. The build that’s downloadable from here is the lat…

Hi Jesse Thanks for the response. The error seemed to be something to with the .csv files having UTF-8 with BOM encoding. After ensuring all the files were just UTF-8, I was able to get to a point where the UI accepted all my inputs and I was able to hit run. However, the model is throwing up an …

Thanks for providing your input tables and log file @lukezw . Yes, the CSV files need to be ASCII, UTF-8, or Signed UTF-8 encoded . I see that your Objectives Table “objectives.csv” does not include the required column header “name”. Instead, the first column is labeled “objective”. Please try adjust…

Just to clarify about the table encoding, @lukezw if you’re running the version of ROOT that’s built using InVEST 3.3.3, it’ll be safest to save your table as ASCII. The UTF-8 BOM isn’t handled correctly until a much later version of InVEST. This will likely be resolved in a future version of ROOT…

Thanks both for your helpful responses. I thought I had converted everything to UTF-8 but I see I had missed one or 2 of the csv’s. I will try the ASCII route to be safest when back at work. Jesse I saw the user guide calls for “name” to be used in the first column of the Objectives Table. However…

Update I have managed to get the model to run further after fixing the encoding. NB: I did have to use ‘objective’ rather than ‘name’ in the header of the first column of the objective table, contrary to what the user guide says. The model ran for several minutes before throwing up the following e…

@lukezw thanks for letting us know that you had to label the column “objective” instead of “name”. @jdouglass is this a bug or should the UG be updated accordingly? @lukezw , I’m glad that changing the encoding of the CSVs allowed the model to run further. Unfortunately, I am unfamiliar with the new…

Hello Jesse Turns out increasing the SDU size allowed the model to run successfully (still while using “objective” instead of “name” in the objective table). Thanks for all your pointers along the way. Luke

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HI @Yongxiu , This looks like a different issue related to ROOT than what was posted in this thread. Would you mind posting again your issue in a new thread? Thanks.

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ROOT error: "name" not found

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