https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/select-by-location-not-working/m-p/1476720#M4887 <P>Hello&nbsp;BerndtNording.</P><P>I had to test this, because I wasn't sure the how ArcGIS would behave if the target layer had a definition query.&nbsp; I put a definition query on a polygon layer (target).&nbsp; I then selected a 1-feature from a different featureclass (source).&nbsp; Using Select-by-Location (Intersect the source layer feature), I designated the target and source.&nbsp; &nbsp;I received the expected results.&nbsp; Maybe I did something different than you?</P><P>~Jeff</P> Wed, 22 May 2024 02:39:21 GMT JeffHouser 2024-05-22T02:39:21Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/select-by-location-not-working/m-p/1476404#M4886 <P>I'm having problems with select by location: it doesn't select anything if the layers involved have definition queries. I know there are a number of functions in ArcMap that don't respect definition queries - is this just another one?</P><P>Yes, I've tried doing the same thing on the same datasets but without definition queries and it works like it should...</P> Tue, 21 May 2024 17:18:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/select-by-location-not-working/m-p/1476404#M4886 BerndtNording 2024-05-21T17:18:05Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/select-by-location-not-working/m-p/1476720#M4887 <P>Hello&nbsp;BerndtNording.</P><P>I had to test this, because I wasn't sure the how ArcGIS would behave if the target layer had a definition query.&nbsp; I put a definition query on a polygon layer (target).&nbsp; I then selected a 1-feature from a different featureclass (source).&nbsp; Using Select-by-Location (Intersect the source layer feature), I designated the target and source.&nbsp; &nbsp;I received the expected results.&nbsp; Maybe I did something different than you?</P><P>~Jeff</P> Wed, 22 May 2024 02:39:21 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/select-by-location-not-working/m-p/1476720#M4887 JeffHouser 2024-05-22T02:39:21Z