topic Re: Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature in Local Government Solutions Users Questions

Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature

ChrisWalker4 — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:21:08 GMT

I cannot seem to get the nearest feature working through my dynamic value table.

Using the Sign Inventory Deployment I want to Auto Apply the Nearest Pole FACILITYID to a field in my sign Inventory called Pole_ID

Seems simple enough but I get no results, other more basic rules are working like AutoNumber and X_Coordinate etc.

I have attached a shot of my current DynamicValues table

Any thoughts?

Arcmap 10.4.1

Re: Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature

MikeMillerGIS — Sat, 12 May 2018 01:50:39 GMT

I think you need to add third parameter, the search distance. By default, the search distance is 0.

Also,activating the log file can provide some insight what is going on.

Re: Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature

GregoryBurda — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:21:23 GMT

I also had the same problem and tried it with a search distance. AA still doesn't populate the field.

From the log file, it looks like that AA successfully ran the rule.

Any other suggestions that you can think of? Does being in a geometric network give it any issues or are there any known bugs?

Re: Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature

MikeMillerGIS — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:23:34 GMT

What version of the AA are you running. I am not seeing some of the messaging I added to the log in some of the more recent versions.

Re: Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature

GregoryBurda — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:01:26 GMT

I'm using version 2017.3.1

Re: Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature

MikeMillerGIS — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:37:21 GMT

Could you upgrade to the most recent version or even try a preview build of the next release? There has been some enhancements to this rule since 3.2017

https://github.com/Esri/local-government-desktop-addins/tree/dev/PreviewBuilds

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Re: Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature

GregoryBurda — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:43:10 GMT

I'll give it a shot and let you know the results. Thank you!

Re: Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature

GregoryBurda — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:10:23 GMT

I updated to the latest version with the same results (the field not updating). You also may notice the distance is set to 10 in the image below. I also tried it at 100 with no result. I just happened to capture the image with "10" shown.

I ended up creating a new gdb, copied the dataset and removed the geometric network and it worked. You can see the difference in the log files as well. Have you had any feedback regarding the geometric network and any conflicts it may have with the AA?

Re: Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature

MikeMillerGIS — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:09:42 GMT

Nothing stands out. can you email a small gdb that I can test for a repo.

Re: Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature

MikeMillerGIS — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:12:22 GMT

mmiller@esri.com is my email

Re: Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature

AndrewBrachman1 — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:23:38 GMT

I am have the same issues of Nearest_Feature not working while a geometric network is in the same geodatabase.

I am running:

ArcMap 10.5.1

Attribute Assistant 2018.5

Re: Attribute Assistant - Nearest Feature

GregoryBurda — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:20:07 GMT

We we're told by Mr. Miller that deleting the GN is all you need to do, if that is not working, you need to work with Tech Support and get a bug logged.

We also found that another problem with the AA is that the feature had subtypes associated with it. We had to go into the subtypes tab and add the Domain to the Field Name for each subtype. Then we had to go into the Fields Tab and associate the Field Name with the Domain.

We also ran into an issue where I had changed the name of the Water main (where it was pulling the PressureSystem info) in the TOC (Table of Contents) and it didn’t like that. I had to change it back to what it was called in SDE.

After making those changes, AA populated the full text description rather than the coded value.

There are still a few instances where I can't get the Nearest_Features to work with other features. We're still working on trying to find a solution.

ArcMap 10.6.1

Attribute Assistant 2018.1.17