https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/spatial-definition-queries-spatial-clause-in/idi-p/1674159 <P>The implementation of spatial definition queries in ArcGIS Pro v3.5+ is a start, but seems limited, as others have noted here in ArcGIS Ideas, to intersect, etc.&nbsp; It's also apparent that you have similar functionality that is being used in Select By Location on the GUI.</P><P>A potentially valuable approach/improvement might be to implement expression files that can be saved from the Select by Location GUI dialog (saving to .exp file).&nbsp; This is already an option in the Select by Attribute GUI dialog, and those .exp files can be the basis for a definition query.&nbsp; So, if you make Select by Location .exp files available to the user and allow the user to string together multiple .exp definition files here with SQL, it could be a rather powerful approach to combine attribute and spatial queries together as a definition query (and in a way that is consistent with other elements of the Pro GUI).</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="defintion_query_files.png" style="width: 360px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/145890iBF60C0F810720A66/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="defintion_query_files.png" alt="defintion_query_files.png" /></span></P> Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:57:27 GMT tjmoore_usda 2025-12-19T00:57:27Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/spatial-definition-queries-spatial-clause-in/idi-p/1674159 <P>The implementation of spatial definition queries in ArcGIS Pro v3.5+ is a start, but seems limited, as others have noted here in ArcGIS Ideas, to intersect, etc.&nbsp; It's also apparent that you have similar functionality that is being used in Select By Location on the GUI.</P><P>A potentially valuable approach/improvement might be to implement expression files that can be saved from the Select by Location GUI dialog (saving to .exp file).&nbsp; This is already an option in the Select by Attribute GUI dialog, and those .exp files can be the basis for a definition query.&nbsp; So, if you make Select by Location .exp files available to the user and allow the user to string together multiple .exp definition files here with SQL, it could be a rather powerful approach to combine attribute and spatial queries together as a definition query (and in a way that is consistent with other elements of the Pro GUI).</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="defintion_query_files.png" style="width: 360px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/145890iBF60C0F810720A66/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="defintion_query_files.png" alt="defintion_query_files.png" /></span></P> Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:57:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/spatial-definition-queries-spatial-clause-in/idi-p/1674159 tjmoore_usda 2025-12-19T00:57:27Z