Custom Sorting for Indoors Category Results - Is it Possible?

GeoMartino

I'm working on an ArcGIS Pro Indoors project and I'm trying to customize how search results are displayed within categories.

Current Issue: By default, it appears that category results are sorted by OBJECTID, but I would like to sort them by a different field from my UNITS table (for example, by room number or unit name).

What I've Already Checked: I've thoroughly reviewed all the category configuration options in ArcGIS Pro, including:

• Category Expression
• Field Mapping
• Search Field settings
• Template configuration

Unfortunately, I cannot find any option to modify the sort order for category results.

My Questions:

1. Is there a way to specify a custom sort field for category results in Indoors?
2. Has anyone found a workaround to achieve custom sorting (perhaps through SQL expressions, data preprocessing, or other methods)?
3. Are there any undocumented parameters or configuration files that might allow this customization?

Environment:

• ArcGIS Pro 3.5.2
• ArcGIS Indoors extension

Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! If this isn't currently possible, I'd be interested to know if others would find this functionality useful for future Esri development.

Thanks in advance for your help!

AaronKoelker

From what we've been told, the results in the Explore pane of the Viewer app or Mobile app will sort based on their proximity to the user (via GPS in the mobile app) or via whatever "Unit" feature has been set by the user as their default "Home" location. This requires a routing network and a "closet facility" layer to function, otherwise it seems to sort by default on OBJECTID, as you're seeing.

Haven't gotten far enough in our own deployment to actually test this yet, though.