topic Re: How to convert a FeatureClass to FeatureLayer in ArcGIS Pro Questions

How to convert a FeatureClass to FeatureLayer

dkoerner — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 22:14:01 GMT

Hi,

while going though this tutorial: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/analysis/networks/create-and-use-a-network-dataset-with-public-transit-data.htm

I fail at step "connect network dataset transit source to streets". The tool errors that the Streets dataset is not a FeatureLayer. It appears to be a FeatureClass. Ignoring that the tutorial instructions appear to be broken (not surprised) I tried to find out how to convert a FeatureClass to a FeatureLayer but failed after a couple of hours (not surprised either).

Can somebody help me?

Best,

David

Re: How to convert a FeatureClass to FeatureLayer

DanPatterson — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 22:26:34 GMT

Did you try the Copy Features (Data Management) tool? It will produce a new file (featureclass) which when added to a map is a featurelayer.

Re: How to convert a FeatureClass to FeatureLayer

Tim_McGinnes — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 22:32:18 GMT

Try the Make Feature Layer tool. There are some tools that say they need a feature layer but will happily work with a feature class, however this one may actually need a feature layer. The tool documentation does say feature class though...

What's the actual error you are getting?

Re: How to convert a FeatureClass to FeatureLayer

dkoerner — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:09:54 GMT

Hey thanks everybody for your swift response! I managed to resolve the issue 👍