Is there a way to make a selection of multiple polygons but create individual sites?

Question

Is there a way to do a large selection of multiple polygons but have them individually be sites instead of all being combined into one new site? I have a lot of little community polygons and want to avoid having to click each one individually in order to create a site for each.

Thank you!

PraveenSrivastava · Answer

Thanks for sharing the workaround, Lara. Glad it helped your workflow.

LaraVargas · Answer

Thank you, for your response. While the select issue is being improved upon, I actually found an alternate way to achieve the same objective.

I was able to add (the same data) through the "Add Data" - "Import File" option as a shapefile in a zipped folder. This brought in my data (limited to 100 records) as individual polygons in my Table of Contents. This allowed for the individual polyons within my shapefile to be respected as seperate entities for reports and infographics without having to click each one and run a report in order to get them to be respected individually as sites.

This then made the individual polygons independently selectable for comparison reports and infographics.

The 100 record limit is a (small) barrier but it is something we can work around.

Thank you again for your help and I look forward to all the great features that are yet to come for Community Analyst.

Lara Saikali, GIS Specialist

City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning

PraveenSrivastava · Answer

Hi Lara,

As discussed in your email on this question, currently this a limitation. Thank you for validating this issue further though. We will look into the ways to improve this.

Thank you,

Praveen Srivastava

ArcGIS Community Analyst Team