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Editing features on another class with attribute rules - Points

Jake_S — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 20:43:30 GMT

Hey folks,

Stumbled upon this post, Advanced Attribute Rules - Editing features on another class with attribute rules where inserting a point created a buffer polygon feature class. I wanted to use this when a user creates an annotation feature a similar rule would create a point feature class. When I use almost identical code just pointed to a point feature class.

var featureGeo = Geometry($feature); return { "result": $feature.OBJECT__ID, "edit": [ { "className" : "LocalPoints", "adds" : [ { "attributes": { "TextString": $feature.TextString }, "geometry": featureGeo } ] } ] }

I get the following error..

Am I using the wrong function to return the annotation feature geometry? Or is it my Pro Version? 2.6.6

Any help for this noob is appreciated!

Re: Editing features on another class with attribute rules - Points

JohannesLindner — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 05:51:51 GMT

Annotation features seem to be treated as polygons. So when you try to just copy the geometry to a point fc, it throws an error.

Depending on where you want the point to show up, you have a few options:

Centroid(featureGeo), this will place the point in the center of the annotation
featureGeo.rings[0][1], this will place the point at the bottom left corner of the annotation
featureGeo.ring[0][X], where X is 0, 2 or 3, this will place the point at one of the other corners

Re: Editing features on another class with attribute rules - Points

Jake_S — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:33:43 GMT

Johannes,

Always looking out for me!

I did try Centroid() prior to posting, I get the following error:

Using featureGeo.rings[0][1] returns this error:

After these attempts, your statement "Annotation features seem to be treated as polygons." got me thinking so when I did the following, I got the desired output!

var buff = Buffer($feature,1) var featureGeo = Centroid(buff)

Creating a small buffer then getting the centroid did the trick!

Thank you for your help. As always its a pleasure!

Re: Editing features on another class with attribute rules - Points

Jake_S — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:41:35 GMT

This also worked......

var featureGeo = Geometry($feature); var featureGeo = Centroid(featureGeo)

Re: Editing features on another class with attribute rules - Points

JohannesLindner — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:49:01 GMT

Huh, weird, these snippets worked for me. But my test feature classes are in a file gdb, maybe that makes a difference, who knows...

Glad you got it to work with the buffer!

Re: Editing features on another class with attribute rules - Points

Jake_S — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:14:11 GMT

Yeah, not sure. Enjoy the day!