topic Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Miguel-Fernandez — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:09:20 GMT

I am trying to run the tool Summarize Within (Analysis tool) in ArcGIS Pro 2.7.2. The tool successfully runs but does not return a new layer or table. I can open the Details pane and see that the output locations are correct. But when I look in the project geodatabase, there is nothing there. The data I'm using for the input polygon is a single feature that covers several counties. The input summary features is a polygon layer of census tracts. I am trying to sum several of the attributes and use the group by function to group by county. Both data layers are in the same projection, epsg: 4269. I have been able to run other tools, buffer, intersect, etc and they all return the expected outputs. Has anyone else experienced something similar?

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

JayantaPoddar — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:03:52 GMT

Could you share the screenshot of the parameters filled in Summarize Within tool, and the message dialog after the tool has run successfully?

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Miguel-Fernandez — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:10:01 GMT

@JayantaPoddar I've edited the post to include the screenshots.

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

JayantaPoddar — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:24:38 GMT

The parameters look fine to me. Refresh the output FGDB to check if the feature class is created. Else, close all the sessions of ArcGIS Pro, and open ArcGIS Pro.

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Miguel-Fernandez — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:29:39 GMT

@JayantaPoddar I have tried those steps and the issue still persists. I appreciate your suggestions.

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

JayantaPoddar — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:03:37 GMT

Would it be possible to share the input feature classes/ shapefiles ?

I would like to see if I can reproduce the same issue in my machine.

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Miguel-Fernandez — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:37:07 GMT

I'm having trouble getting the data down to size. I'm wrapping up things for the day here but I'll try again tomorrow. Thanks for all your help.

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Mary_Murphy — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:59:56 GMT

What is the data type of the grouping field e.g. is it a text field or a numerical field?

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Miguel-Fernandez — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:02:13 GMT

@Mary_Murphy , the grouping field, 'County' is a text field. I also tried running the tool without passing a field to the GroupBy argument and I'm still not getting any results.

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Miguel-Fernandez — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:06:08 GMT

I also tried creating a new polygon feature class to act as my Input Polygon to summarize the Census data within and still the same results.

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

JayantaPoddar — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:26:51 GMT

Does the Census layer have multipart features? Do a Multipart To Singlepart (Data Management) to check for any difference in the number of feature parts. Use its output instead of the original Census Layer.

Checking and repairing geometries would be one more thing I might try.

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Miguel-Fernandez — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:38:48 GMT

Hey @JayantaPoddar , I tried both of your suggestions but there is still no output generated from the tool. There were a few new features generated from the multipart to singlepart too. I just ended up using a work around. I created a new attribute in the census data called 'full_tract_area'. I then did an intersect with my polygon layer and the census data. I then calculated new attributes of interest using the proportion of tract in the new layer. For example:

'carpooled_updated' = ('shape_area' / 'full_tract_area') * 'carpooled_original'

This was a little more manual than I was hoping for. But thanks for all your help on this. I really appreciate it.

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Mary_Murphy — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:24:52 GMT

Where are the two input layers stored? Are they stored locally or on a shared/network drive?

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Miguel-Fernandez — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:38:24 GMT

@Mary_Murphy both of the input layers are stored locally.

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Mary_Murphy — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 21:54:35 GMT

Awesome - and .shp or feature classes in a .gdb?

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Miguel-Fernandez — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:28:43 GMT

They're both feature classes in the same .gdb

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Ofer_Tamir — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:19:54 GMT

Hi Miguel,

Just bumped into your post while trying to figure how to solve the exact same problem!

In my case both Layers were originally imported from a CAD feature. However both of them are now features in the project's default gdb. Is it possible that it has to do with the dwg origin of the data?

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Josh-R — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:33:36 GMT

Hi,

I am having the exact same issue with both the SummarizeWithin and SummarizeNearby tool. Same projection and coordinate system. I also used multipart to singlepart. The code throws no error and does not yield and output.

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

sbastias — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 17:59:28 GMT

Hi all,

I am also having the same issue with the SummarizeWithin tool as stated above. I am trying to sum points within watershed polygons, and while the tool runs successfully no output is stored. I am working locally and saving to a .gdb.

Any suggestions?

Re: Summarize Within running but not returning anything

Marie-JoëlleDesgagné — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:13:16 GMT

I'm having the same problem. However, the tool worked perfectly yesterday. I have version 2.8.3. The code throws no error and does not yield an output.