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Issue with Fetching Connectivity Association using Arcade

Yogesh_Chavan — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:58:07 GMT

When trying to use the FeatureSetByAssociation Arcade function for Connectivity Association type, we are not able to fetch the associations, it just returns an empty result.

When we use the Container association type it is returning correct record counts of the associated features

For example with this first TelecomEdgeObject record, we have 12 Containment and 2 Connectivity Associations:

When we try to use Arcade:

Containment:

Returns 12 as count of associated features

Connectivity:

Returns 0 as count of associated features

What could be going wrong here? We tried creating an association(connectivity) manually, and it still does not consider it.

Any thoughts would be helpful!!

Re: Issue with Fetching Connectivity Association using Arcade

RobertKrisher — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:12:00 GMT

I recommend you check out the Arcade documentation for that method for the possible values for the association type parameter: FeatureSet functions | ArcGIS Arcade | Esri Developer.

I don't see 'connectivity' listed as a valid value. Depending on the type of connectivity you're looking for, you should be able to use one of the other association types.

Re: Issue with Fetching Connectivity Association using Arcade

HusseinNasser2 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:20:44 GMT

If you are looking for junction Edge associations you should use

featureSetByAssociation($feature, 'junctionEdge')

"Connected" is only for JJ associations

Re: Issue with Fetching Connectivity Association using Arcade

Yogesh_Chavan — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:35:44 GMT

Thank you @HusseinNasser2,

We used the "junctionEdge" key string for this and it worked.

As a side note, I admire all your work and blogs on Arcade!!

I would like to know, if you have written a blog/article on how to optimize Arcade scripts? For example we have a script which takes long time to evaluate 250 records, the script(Batch Rule) picks records from the table(GeolocatorLine)--> find that record on the parent table(TelecomEdgeObject(non-spatial)--> fetch all associations(point, line, polygons)--> converts them all to Line and also does a Union--> update the row with geometry. It takes almost 3 hours to complete this.

Re: Issue with Fetching Connectivity Association using Arcade

Yogesh_Chavan — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:37:09 GMT

Thank you @RobertKrisher,

We used the "junctionEdge" and it worked.

Re: Issue with Fetching Connectivity Association using Arcade

RobertKrisher — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:40:12 GMT

Arcade is not well suited to heavy data processing tasks like this, think of Attribute Rules like triggers. Even when they are set to be batch rules that just means execution is deferred. Each attribute rule is run on each feature. When you run a batch rule on 250 features, you are fetching all that data and recreating the association lines 250 times, once for each feature. I recommend that you rewrite the process to use Python; it should be significantly faster.

This lets you fetch all the data and do all your analysis once, then push all the updates to your 250 features. (instead of rerunning the analysis 250 times). To help get you started I'd recommend you use the Create Association Lines tool to turn all the associations into lines.

Re: Issue with Fetching Connectivity Association using Arcade

Yogesh_Chavan — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 05:36:44 GMT

Thank you @RobertKrisher for the suggestions!

Sure, we'll check if python implementation is possible for the overall requirement.