idea Ability in ArcGIS Pro to be able to select consecutive features based on a single selection in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Ability in ArcGIS Pro to be able to select consecutive features based on a single selection

TD1 — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:55:01 GMT

Ability in ArcGIS Pro to be able to select one feature and say select the next 10 consecutive features. Maybe select one say polygon and then right click and say select the next 10 consecutive features of the same item.

Re: Ability in ArcGIS Pro to be able to select consecutive features based on a single selection

MErikReedAugusta — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:16:46 GMT

I'm curious: What's the use case here?

And what does "consecutive" mean in your imagined context? Is it consecutive in the attribute table? Or consecutive in some sort of topology/flow, like a Utility Network?

Re: Ability in ArcGIS Pro to be able to select consecutive features based on a single selection

TD1 — Fri, 30 May 2025 17:40:04 GMT

An example use case would be me selecting parking stalls in a parking lot. There are numerous parking stalls in a row. Sometimes I need to quickly select only 10 of say 80 stalls in a row.

The process right now is counting manually and selecting manually then to get the say 10 stalls.

Consecutive in the above example is consecutive in the row of parking stalls.

Lots of other examples.

Another solution would be having a dynamic "count" indicator on the mouse when in select mode that shows how many features are selected.

Re: Ability in ArcGIS Pro to be able to select consecutive features based on a single selection

DuncanHornby — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:58:47 GMT

You could just do a model to iterate over 10 loops doing a select by layer with the ADD to selection option... This approach assumes the features intersect in some way.

Re: Ability in ArcGIS Pro to be able to select consecutive features based on a single selection

TD1 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:16:44 GMT

Like the idea but seems like a lot of work just to do a simple selection

Re: Ability in ArcGIS Pro to be able to select consecutive features based on a single selection

DuncanHornby — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:48:52 GMT

Is the selection simple? You don't actually say if the features intersect, if not that would require some sort of proximity operation. Why 10, 10 is good for you but not enough for another. Then you have to deal with multipart features, what about features that touch but not even the same geometry. So what the brain thinks is easy could be a computational nightmare, especially if the next person who comes along and asks for the next million...

That's why a lot of geoprocessing tools are atomic, just do one thing, and you could the more complex selection logic with a model.

Scripting is often slicker and faster.

Re: Ability in ArcGIS Pro to be able to select consecutive features based on a single selection

Scott_Harris — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:59:30 GMT

@TD1

Just a thought, the Attributes pane has the ability to step through and review all features in a layer. If you have a particular field that specifies a sequence, you can set that field as the display field for that layer and then sort on that layer within the attribute table. Now you can step through all of the features in the layer consecutively and review and update attributes/geometry as needed.