Allowing Mixed-Resolution & Dynamic Allocations in Space Planner

ZiweiZ6352 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:38:36 GMT

Related to this's post: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-indoors-ideas/multi-level-allocations-in-space-planner/idi-p/1690897/jump-to/first-unread-message. Aaron has highlighted a critical gap, and I want to add some context to why the current single-tier allocation model breaks down in production.

At our university, we manage over 100 departments and 50 administration units, which further branch into hundreds of sub-units and teams. We are constantly caught between two parallel, misaligned data hierarchies:

Facilities Cost Centers: The structural hierarchy used to track space ownership codes, regardless of who sits there.
HR Org Charts (Workday): The operational hierarchy attached to employee data that populates Occupants layer.

The Bottleneck:

In the current Space Planner allocation wizard, we are forced to pick one single tier of the hierarchy (e.g., choosing strictly "Department" OR "Team") to run a plan. This rigid, all-or-nothing approach doesn't match how real space requests land on a planner’s desk. Real-world space demand doesn't respect clean hierarchy lines.

Space demands are almost always mixed-resolution. A single move project frequently requires moving an entire macro-level department (e.g., all of History) while simultaneously moving a micro-level sub-group from a completely different branch (e.g., a 3-person team from Creative Writing).

The Solution/Feature Request:

Instead of forcing a single, blanket selection from the Occupants attributes, Space Planner needs to support Mixed-Resolution or Ad-Hoc Grouping.

Multi-Tier Filtering: Allow planners to define allocations down to different levels of the hierarchy within the same plan.
Custom Value Lists: Give users the ability to explicitly define or cherry-pick a mixed list of values across different organizational levels to use as the allocation categories.

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