topic Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Use selected features as input to analysis tool

LarsElmkær_Chwastek — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:56:40 GMT

Hi all,

I have a question about using selected features in an analysis tool. I can't quite figure out how to make this work.

If I use the select tool to select let's say 10 houses from a building layer, I want to be able to take that building layer and use as an input to for instance the buffer tool..

But when I do that, it doesn't honor the selection.. it just takes all the features in the layer..

It would also be cool to be able to do the same with a GP/Web tool that you publish your self

Do anyone know a solution?

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

DanielFox1 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:10:57 GMT

Hi @LarsElmkær_Chwastek

At the moment I don't think that this functionality is possible, but I think that this would be an excellent to put into the Esri Ideas community.

I have tried to make the two widgets work together but I cannot find a way to link them either. There are options in the select widget to make a buffer using the spatial interaction, the yellow circle outlined is the buffer created. The settings on the right-hand side are for the select widget.

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

LarsElmkær_Chwastek — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:41:34 GMT

Thanks for your answer Daniel, although not what I had hoped for 🙂

I have added the idea to the community: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-ideas/use-selected-features-as-input-in-analysis-tools/idi-p/1397177/jump-to/first-unread-message

The "Select" options gets me a bit of the way at least with the buffer tool.

Thanks

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

Wei_Ying — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:08:42 GMT

Hi @LarsElmkær_Chwastek

Unfortunately "selection" is not yet supported in current Analysis widget. But we are working on that!

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

LarsElmkær_Chwastek — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:44:13 GMT

Hi WeiYing,

Thank you for providing an answer and the update. Do you have any idea on when it could potentially be ready?

Thanks 🙂

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

Wei_Ying — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:33:39 GMT

Sorry for late response. But this scenario is achievable now.
You can now select features in other widgets (map, table, list etc.), or select use Select widget. Then for the selections there is a data action called "Set as input of Analysis" which can pass the selections to analysis tools. Please check:
https://doc.arcgis.com/en/experience-builder/latest/configure-widgets/analysis-widget.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_F94D4C0E20904176B5C5841A2AEC82EF

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

LarsElmkær_Chwastek — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 12:03:49 GMT

Hi Wei Ying,

Thank you for your response and no worries 🙂

Just to be 100% clear - the Set as input of Analysis option is not available on Enterprise yet? Not until 11.4 or??

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

Wei_Ying — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 01:17:45 GMT

Yes, it will be available in upcoming 11.4

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

LarsElmkær_Chwastek — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:12:06 GMT

Thank you for the update Wei Ying, have a great weekend 🙂

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

DougBrowning — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:48:16 GMT

Just ran into this today. Really need it. thanks

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

GFlonk — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:36:25 GMT

I created a simple webtool today to test this functionality in Experience builder, and it doesn't seem to work in my case. I want to create a webtool that works with a sleection of records as input. For this I created a simple notebook with one parameter and published it as a webtool.

Then created a basic experience with just a table and the analysis widget. When i try to set the analysis tool input from the selection in the table I get this message:

When i look in the console we see this error:

Am i doing something wrong or am i encountering a bug?

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

DougBrowning — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:51:49 GMT

No the GP widget does not respect selections at all yet. Which is super weird to release it without that. No one runs a tool on an entire FC.

See farther up this post there is a hack posted.

Upvote here? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-ideas/use-selected-features-as-input-in-analysis-tools/idc-p/1566793#M3410

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

GFlonk — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:55:50 GMT

Oh yeah I didn't specify; I tried this on ArcGIS Online.

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

Wei_Ying — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:48:41 GMT

The selection processing is available in ArcGIS Online, and for Enterprise, it is available in 11.4.

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

Wei_Ying — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:52:35 GMT

Hi @GFlonk , I guess the data you used as input is a private feature service hosted in some portal?

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

GFlonk — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:41:27 GMT

Yes it is, though my account has access to it. I think what would help here is a simple step by step doing only the necessary to verify that in experience builder; we can add a table with data, and send its selection to a webtool, then in the webtool verify we receive a selection (only by printing or something). If i have that i can verify that flow works and could be a possible solution for clients i have. I tried doing exactly this myself and ran into the error i mentioned earlier.

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

Wei_Ying — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 01:19:43 GMT

That's weird. I cannot reproduce based on your description. I guess it might be tool specific or data specific.
I suggest you to contact Esri Support to provide us a repro case. Appreciated!

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

LisaT — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:37:00 GMT

Hi Everyone, I am having a lot of trouble with this and am hoping someone can point me to a tutorial? I am trying to create a simple custom tool in AGOL that will take a selection from ExB. I am currently trying to process it as a FeatureSet. I am currently attempting to do it by selecting a default input parameter of type FeatureSet. When I add it to ExB and also add a select widget (with Set as Analysis input using "Analysis") it doesn't seem to change the "Count of Features" when I change the Selection. What should I be seeing? Is there a tutorial for either an established Analysis tool or a custom one?

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

DougBrowning — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:53:20 GMT

Correct it is ignoring the selection which was a very weird thing to leave out. It has us at a standstill on converting now. Last I heard it was "coming soon" but I still do not see it working.

Re: Use selected features as input to analysis tool

mody_buchbinder — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:20:05 GMT

Hello all

We use the solution here to send some selected features to gp service.

The gp service gets the features but it looks like it does not gets all the attributes of each feature, only 2-3 attributes are send as part of the feature set.

Is that a bug?

Thanks