topic Re: ArcGIS for Excel - new spatial filter analysis failed in ArcGIS for Excel Questions

ArcGIS for Excel - new spatial filter analysis failed

EileenTeasdale — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:49:53 GMT

Tested this feature out and it keeps failing. How do we troubleshoot the cause of this failure; there is no information aside from error saying "spatial filter failed"?

Re: ArcGIS for Excel - new spatial filter analysis failed

ShannonCardoza82 — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:46:34 GMT

Good morning @EileenTeasdale, Thank you for reaching out. After reading your questions, I have posted a more in depth blog that may be helpful. Here is the link!

Please let me know if you have any other questions or troubles.

All the best,

Re: ArcGIS for Excel - new spatial filter analysis failed

EileenTeasdale — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:31:29 GMT

It appears that the problem has to do with my Result Layer Name. If I have spaces in the name I get the spatial filter error. If I remove the spaces or use underscores in the name instead then the analysis works.

Re: ArcGIS for Excel - new spatial filter analysis failed

EileenTeasdale — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:32:50 GMT

Hi, I was doing the items you talk about in the blog. I seem to have troubleshooted the problem and posted my solution below.

Re: ArcGIS for Excel - new spatial filter analysis failed

JosephGenther — Wed, 14 May 2025 23:38:19 GMT

I'm getting an error attempting to filter points by which ones fall within a ring buffer that I also created in the same Excel tool.

Ensuring the name of the output feature layer has no spaces didn't resolve this issue.