Generate Events Tool Not Working?

anayoung

Hello,

I recently used the Generate Events tool to try update measures of one segment of a route but what happened was that it zeroed-out the shape-length field. So, I was left with a record that had no geometry. I ran the tool in ArcMap both inside and outside of edit mode with the one segment selected - the result was the same. 

I grabbed the event from one ALRS network and loaded it into another ALRS network that had different but correct measures. I thought that the Generate Events tool would update the measures along the route network it was loaded onto - isn't this the purpose of this tool?

Can anyone tell me what might have happened and how I might get my event to update on the network I want it on?

Thanks,

Ana

RachelApplebaum

Hi Ana,

Generate Events doesn't update the measures. It takes whatever measures are in the attribute table for that event and recreates the geometry, the shape, from the route based on those measures. From the documentation Generate Events—Location Referencing for Roads and Highways | ArcGIS Desktop , it "Re-creates shapes for event features registered with an LRS Network".

So check what the measures are in the attribute table. I'm guessing they're null, if you're getting no geometry. Make sure the measures there are good then try running the tool again.

-Rachel