topic Re: Can't modify geometries with m-Values in ArcGIS Pro 3.0 / 3.1 with calculation rules in Attribute Rules Questions

Can't modify geometries with m-Values in ArcGIS Pro 3.0 / 3.1 with calculation rules

Zoggo — Mon, 22 May 2023 06:38:19 GMT

I have couples of immediate calculation rules that worked fine in ArcGIS Pro 2.9. After upgrading to 3.0.5 they don't work anymore. I even tried with ArcGIS Pro 3.1.1 with the same result. I reduced my rules to find the line that produced the error. Finally it seems to be a problem with m-aware feature classes.

For my tests I used Arc GIS Pro 3.0.5 with branch versioned data published to our Enterprise Portal (version 11.0.0). The feature classes are stored in a enterprise geodatabase (SQL).

I published two line feature classes. One with m-values and one without and added the same simple rule to them:

var feature_ = $feature; var g = Geometry(feature_); var t = Text(g) var p = Polyline(t) return p

This rule works fine for the feature class without m-values. If I try to modify a geometry with the m-aware polyline I get this error:

So it seems to bee a problem with the m-values in ArcGIS Pro 3.0.5 and newer.

Is there any workaround for this problem?

Re: Can't modify geometries with m-Values in ArcGIS Pro 3.0 / 3.1 with calculation rules

TedHoward2 — Mon, 22 May 2023 18:36:43 GMT

Does your feature class have m-values and not z-values?

The Text function incorrectly does not serialize hasM or hasZ when converting to text. This leaves the Polyline constructor in an ambiguous state when the paths have 3 values -- is it XYM or XYZ? Polyline defaults to XYZ which is probably why you seeing the entity type error. This is a known issue but here is a possible workaround for now:

var feature_ = $feature; var g = Geometry(feature_); var t = Text(g) if (g.hasm) { var d = Dictionary(t) d["hasM"] = true t = Text(d) } var p = Polyline(t) return p

Re: Can't modify geometries with m-Values in ArcGIS Pro 3.0 / 3.1 with calculation rules

Bud — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:27:52 GMT

FYI - I also have an attribute rule that edits M-values here:
Arcade Code Review: Set polyline M-values to cumulative length of line
I haven't tested it in modern versions of Pro yet.

Related: GitHub - Create SetMValues

Re: Can't modify geometries with m-Values in ArcGIS Pro 3.0 / 3.1 with calculation rules

Bud — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:29:46 GMT

@TedHoward2

Regarding: "This is a known issue..."
Is there a bug number we can reference?