topic Re: Create a Custom UNIT ID Value in ArcGIS Indoors Questions

Create a Custom UNIT ID Value

Admin2TrecsMaps — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:30:21 GMT

At our institution, other data associated with a space (examples: inventory, HR, space usage, occupany) uses a unique pre-defined format of site-building-floor-room. Using the CAD template, is it possible to specify this in upload.

Using the data from this photo, I would like to replace 148 with 119.

Thanks

Re: Create a Custom UNIT ID Value

HBWiese — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:35:00 GMT

We use custom IDs for the entire Indoors data model - site, facility, level, and unit. So yes, you should be able to customize that part of your Unit ID. Of course, if you have anything in the model associated/related to that Unit, it will need to be updated as well.

Re: Create a Custom UNIT ID Value

AaronKoelker — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:54:46 GMT

Can confirm this is possible, however since updating from ArcGIS Pro 3.2 to 3.4, I noticed that now whenever I create a new Unit feature it autopopulates the Unit ID field with a randomly generated string. So to use a custom ID you need to remove that string and replace it with your own (whereas before it remained null until you manually calculated an ID). I'm sure for a lot of users the new behavior is appreciated, but in the case of using your own custom IDs it opens up a bit more room for error, in my opinion.

Re: Create a Custom UNIT ID Value

Admin2TrecsMaps — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:30:24 GMT

We were able successfully incorporate the room number into the unit ID as shown below

The fix is to ensure you're mapping the room number CAD layer to the unit ID target field (originally we just had name):

SOURCE_ANNOTATION	TARGET_FEATURE_CLASS	TARGET_FIELD_NAME
a-flor-rnum	UNITS	UNIT_ID
a-flor-rnum	UNITS	NAME