ArcGIS Online Analysis Tool 'Find Similar Locations'

Question

I am trying to work with the 'Find Similar Locations' analysis tool in ArcGIS Online, and I have a question about 'Base similarity on' section:

The options that appear are only a small fraction of the fields within my database, and after a bit of comparing I have found that the fields all have a data type of 'Double'.  Is there a reason for this?  Is there a work-around or a way to have all fields show?  The returned options severely limit the comparison, and make the tool pretty much useless for me.

If all of the fields within my database were present this would be an awesome tool!

As always, thank you for any suggestions or insight in advance!  (I'm pretty sure that this time it's not user error, I could be wrong though...)

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GavinMayeda · Answer

For those of you following this post, please visit and/or comment on the Ideas post to see if we can get ESRI to open up the query to all data types!

https://community.esri.com/ideas/11224

GavinMayeda · Answer

A quick follow up to the issue -

I made it the the ArcGIS Online islands at the conference, and it was suggested that I use the 'Find Existing Locations' tool in the Analytics widget.  My problem right now, is that it looks like my service has to have 'Feature Access' turned on in order for the query to work.  Is this true?  Is there a work-around to this?

I do have one issue with the difference between the 'Find Existing Locations' tool and the 'Find Similar Locations' tool.  One of the reasons that the 'Find Similar Locations' tool was so appealing, is that it allows you to select a feature that you can base your comparison on.  This does not exist in the 'Find Existing Locations' tool.

Dell OptiPlex 9010

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz

8.0 GB RAM

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit OS

AMD Radeon HD 7570

Dual Dell U2414H Monitors

KellyGerrow · Answer

Thanks for your feedback Gavin!

Can you submit this request and your use case to the ideas site, http://ideas.arcgis.com? The ideas site is moving to Geonet this week, so feel free to wait until it moves or submit it prior to the move.

Thanks,

Kelly