Hello!
I have a task of finding and exporting any lines in feature class A that are within a certain distance of lines in feature class B. This needs to be done in a ModelBuilder tool that will eventually be published to our ArcGIS server as a geoprocessing task.
Select Layer By Location seems to work for this purpose, however I understand that it is essentially creating a temporary selection on an existing feature class, and not creating a new feature class (in other words, there is no parameter for Output Feature Class in this tool).
My question is, if I were to run Select Layer By Location against a feature class that is being read by other users or geoprocessing task processes, will my selection in any way affect those other users/processes? Is there any chance that their results might be limited to my Select Layer By Location filter? I have feature classes stored in SQL Server (SDE) and in file geodatabases on a network share that are used by many other users and processes.
Or, is there a better geoprocessing tool for this problem that I should use instead? Something that does a spatial query and simply exports the results instead of doing a selection?
Thank you!
David
