topic Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter in ArcGIS Online Questions

Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KendellRyan — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:23:07 GMT

I'm using the Find existing locations tool in my web map. I first set a filter in my later to select only 1 County Park. I then run the tool building a query to select all parcels with 0.5 miles of the Park. However it is clearly ignoring my filter and checking all parks. I tried another work around to build a complex query right in the tool (select that park AND select the relevant parcels) but that doesn't work either. Is there no way to make that analysis run on only selected/filtered features? This would would be a no brainer in ArcMap of course.

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KellyGerrow — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:50:50 GMT

Hi Kendell,

I can't reproduce the error that you are encountering currently. Would it be possible to share the web map and the data?

Are you setting the filter on the layer prior to running the analysis and then setting the complex query?

Thanks,

Kelly

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KendellRyan — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:38:33 GMT

Sure, I can invite you to the group. I see a few users for you, which one should I invite?

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KellyGerrow — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:41:07 GMT

try kgerrow_cloudygis

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KendellRyan — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:42:58 GMT

invitation sent. there is only one map (and 2 layers) in the group.

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KellyGerrow — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:28:15 GMT

Thanks Kendell,

It appears that one of your features is a multi-part feature, which is causing some additional polygons to appear in the analysis results. I shared a web map with the problematic feature filtered out with your group. As the multiple polygons refer to one set of attributes for this feature, they will be included in the analysis it part of the feature is included in your expression.

-Kelly

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KendellRyan — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:45:49 GMT

That makes sense. But why would it include every single parcel? I get that it would include those additional parcels, but not all 144K parcels. Can you get it to work otherwise? If you filter say Three Lakes Park and then select parcels within .5 miles how many do you get?

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KellyGerrow — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:33:40 GMT

I got 841 features for Three Lakes Park. If you are getting something different, then I think it may be a good time to get a case created with Esri Technical Support. Let me know your results and/or if you want some help connecting with support.

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KendellRyan — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:35:50 GMT

Great, that is right. Can you just list out your workflow to make sure I'm doing the same. and then if i don't get the right thing I'll contact ESRI support?Thanx

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KendellRyan — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:57:58 GMT

I see your web map. did you do a two step process? you had to buffer the park and then do the selection?

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KellyGerrow — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:48:40 GMT

HI Kendell,

Try the following steps. I did run into a few issues when I received errors from your service, so you may want to check your server logs to see what is happening with the service. I made the buffer just to ensure that the results were in the correct area.

1. Open web map

2. Set filter on the county parks location using the filter tool.

Park Name is Three Lakes Park

3. Hit apply filter

4. Select Analysis tools> Find Locations>Find Existing locations

5. Choose Tax parcels as the layer containing the features for the attribute and spatial queries

6. Open the Add Expression and set the where attribute to within a distance of

7. Set up your query to look like the screenshot below:

8. Ensure that an appropriate result layer name is added

9. Select Run Analysis

Let me know if this works for you,

Kelly

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KendellRyan — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 17:22:34 GMT

OMG!! it was working all the time. The show credits tool clearly doesn't work. I was using that as a guide. The show credits was ignoring the filters. Is that a bug? Did that happen for you?

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KellyGerrow — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:14:07 GMT

HI Kendell,

I kept getting an error message about your service being unavailable, but it did work several times. Are you receiving any errors on your service in your server logs?

I will test the credit estimation functionality further.

-Kelly

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KendellRyan — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:22:25 GMT

Yeah, I am getting them periodically. We had an unreal storm last night and running on generators and having intermittent issues. I'll look into the errors though.

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

XiaolongFeng1 — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:39:21 GMT

Hi Kendell,

Actually for this analysis tool (and similarly Derive New Locations tool), Credit Estimator(show credits tool) will only give you an assumption of the maximum credits this task may consume. What we do for this tool is counting every input layer's feature within the map extent(if you checked ) or within the whole map to give you the assumption.

The reason why we do this is because user can set customized expressions to the query, and the query can get really complicated, that without actually running the analysis job(which will use our Spatial Analysis service and will consume credits), the credit estimator is not able to give you the exact number of features returned in the query.

In other words, if you want to see the exact credit the job will consume, we have to execute this job first. This may take really long time, which is a bad user experience. This will also lead to "shall we charge user credits for this" dilemma.

I think in our help doc, for these specific tools the part for credit consumption is not clear. Also in Credit Estimator, the UI maybe bit misleading. We can make those info more clear in the future.

Thanks,

Xiaolong

Re: Find existing locations is ignoring filter

KendellRyan — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 18:11:43 GMT

Thank you, that is very helpful. It is unfortunate that it doesn't work since I wanted to add that step into my workflow. I'd rather have it take longer but actually calculate true credits. otherwise it's misleading and confusing. hopefully in the future that will be improved? Thanks again, at least i know it's not just my map!