ArcGIS Indoors: allow customization of floor display behaviour

[NicolasGIS]

Currently, ArcGIS Indoors floor display behaviour is inconsistent depending on the client used:

- ArcGIS Indoors viewer / ArcGIS Space planner: display the current floor for the selected building (eg: floor 2 / VERTICAL_ORDER = 2) and all the others building floor displays floor R / VERTICAL_ORDER = 0

- ArcGIS Indoors nativ application: display the current floor for the selected building (eg: floor 2 / VERTICAL_ORDER = 2) and all the others building floor displays the very same floor 2 / VERTICAL_ORDER = 2

-ArcGIS Field Maps: display the current floor for the selected building (eg: floor 2 / VERTICAL_ORDER = 2) and hide all the others buildings floor

For our campus, our favourite floor management display is the one of ArcGIS Indoors nativ application. It is the best way to understand the floor layout and the connexion between buildings.  ArcGIS Indoors viewer / ArcGIS Space planner current floor management is prone to confusion: you may think there is connexion between 2 buildings at floor 2 while there is not because the corridor connecting the 2 buildings is at floor R (VERTICAL_ORDER = 0).

So (to me) it would be nice to either have the floor picker behaviour of ArcGIS Indoors nativ application in all ESRI clients supporting Indoors. Or if not possible because is some situations you would prefer another one, to be able to customize it at the application level. But from a developer perspective, it would be very nice if this configuration could be backported to the "ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript" FloorFilter widget.

Thanks for listening !

[AnninaHirschiWyss]

I agree that the display of adjacent buildings is quite a hassle (in ArcGIS Pro, Viewer, Space Planner), and it would be really great to be able not "leaving" the floor when navigating from one building to another connected on the same floor (other than the groundfloor).

In Pro, you can find some workarounds with definition queries, but it's definitely not intuitive.

There's another similar idea: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-indoors-ideas/indoors-3d-hide-all-unselected-buildings/idc-p/13...

[AnninaHirschiWyss]

Is there any news about this? It would be really great for us to display all the levels of the same vertical order through all the apps, and/or make the floor picker configurable.

[NicolasGIS]

Hi @AnninaHirschiWyss,

Thanks for the support !

I keep pushing every month for this feature without any success so far...

We will have to implement it our own unfortunately viewModel I am afraid 😕

[AnninaHirschiWyss]

I'm tagging some people and making some pressure 😉

@Jinho_Kang @SophieFrank @tomhillgeo @GauravJobanputra anyone else?

@RicardoRochwould this be interesting for you as well?

[AnninaHirschiWyss]

Hi,

me again..

We have a special case, where a building is located on the patio (second floor) of another building. The two buildings are connected with stairs and elevators.

Currently it is impossible to handle POI/Event editing, because:

Using Field Maps -> the building on top of the other one cannot be selected. Its hidden when showing the second floor

Using the Web Map and a (custom) JS Web Application, the Ground floor of the building underneath is showing through the second floor of the building on top. It is impossible to create a POI in the building on top.

This is really a showstopper right now. If the floor filter would always act as it does in the Indoors Mobile App, we would most likely be able to solve our viewing and editing issues.

Thank you.

[PatrikStröm]

This (and the above linked post by  @AnninaHirschiWyss ) would help us with complex campuses greatly.
We run a multitude of buildings which are open to oneanother, reasons for them being separate is due to a multitude of reasons, but merging them as one isn't beneficial to the end user.

In short: We have a multitude of airport terminals which are fully connected and we desperately need a seamless "data travel" between the buildings in order to present a sufficient digital analogue (I'm not using a digital twin).

[AnninaHirschiWyss]

Just linking another idea, hoping to get a bit more visibility on the issue: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-indoors-ideas/apply-active-floor-filter-to-all-buildings/idi-p/...

Thanks!