Floor Filter doesn't honor the hosted views created from indoors data

Question

Hello,

We are migrating internal business to Portal (11.2, I know its retiring and we have plans to upgrade to 11.5).  I have the Indoors dataset published to Portal - it is hosted.  From this I have created view layers (both individually and from the grouped service) and in the view layers the floor filter will not show all floors in several buildings.  I initially thought it was a glitch with the fact that some of these buildings only had one floor (we have leased space, so some floorplans only included one floor and no roof).  That resolved some issues, but in other buildings where we have multiple floors, random floors just don't show up form the floor picker.

Edited to add: the view's only purpose is to have layers that users do not have editing capabilities on.  The layers do not have any filters or fields excluded.  The source layer works as expected with the floor filter.

So I am wondering: does anyone utilize hosted views to limit edit access for Indoors data and if so does the floor filter work as expected?

Thanks

Mary

AaronKoelker · Answer

@GISMaryWagner The other two things I can think to check:

* How you've filled out the Vertical Order field in the Levels layer: Double check that those are sequential with no gaps. So if you only have the 2nd floor of a building, it would be 0 in the Vertical Order. If you only had the 2nd floor and the 12th floor in the same building, they would be 0 and 1. 
* Run the Upgrade Indoors Database tool and republish. I've found that running the Upgrade Indoors Database tool on the file geodatabase has fixed a lot of the odd issues I've run into with Indoors, especially if you've been messing with the schema or copying layers around.

All that said, I tried (unsuccessfully) to use views for Indoors too as I had concerns about the Indoors Spaces hosted feature layer type, which is always editable to anyone who can access it. In a small, controlled organization that might be fine, but if you have a large org and many users who know what they are doing (or worse, don't quite know what they're doing) they could go into the Data tab on the item details or pull the layer into an editing app and start changing attributes (malicious or not). I brought this concern up with Esri at one point but I'm not sure they understood what I was trying to point out. This was months ago so my memory is fuzzy but I remember playing with the edit settings and views but could never find a solution that both addressed my concern and didn't cause other issues. I think I was unable to share a non-editable view to users that could also feed into Space Planner. It needs an editable layer to do the merge. Anyways, not entirely related to your issue, but the special Indoors Spaces hosted feature layers use their own odd layer type (same link above) and so perhaps it is indeed a bug or undocumented limitation you're running into. ArcGIS Pro 3.3 is getting old now so republishing from a newer version (be sure to run the Upgrade Indoors Database tool) is probably a good idea.

GISMaryWagner · Answer

Hi Aaron,

This is happening on a hosted view layer in Portal (11.2) within web maps/ application.   The hosted source data filters as expected the views created from them do not.  It skips random floors in some buildings or does not show any available floors at all.   The views that are created do not have any filters/limitations applied.  We simply needed it as a view only copy to limit editing access.
I haven't tried using these hosted view layers in ArcPro - only because our users are using web maps and applications rather than the desktop software.

The indoors data was originally published from ArcPro 3.3 - perhaps when we're able to upgrade our software I can republish and see if that helps?

Thank you for sharing that documentation!

Mary

AaronKoelker · Answer

Where are you seeing the issue? ArcGIS Pro? A basic web map? Space Planner app? There was a setting added for the floor picker to change how floors across buildings display if they have a matching floor number to the active building

https://doc.esri.com/en/arcgis-pro/latest/help/data/indoors/visualize-floor-aware-data-using-the-floor-filter.html#:~:text=Display%20Mode%3A,in%20the%20map.