ArcGIS Indoors hoteling - how to display a vacant office assigned to specific team

[DarrenLloyd__DOIT]

My goal is to visualize vacant offices assigned to specific teams. I tried creating Placeholder Occupants in the Space Planner app however those do not carry over to the Viewer and Floor Plan Editor apps. 

In the example below the two "Vacant" offices are only placeholders and not visualized in the Viewer app so this is not a good solution for me. Offices 4.419 and 4.415 are designed as Office Hotels and assigned to the Workspace Area of the DGS team. But visually there is no way to have the label display "vacant." Those offices need to be labeled Vacant. 

Has anyone found a solution for displaying vacant offices?

[GauravJobanputra]

@DarrenLloyd__DOIT labeling the office as 'Vacant' can be achieved in a few ways. The recommendation/suggestion would be based on the fields being used for the current symbology and labeling of your map. For example, if you are using the map in Indoor Viewer, do you have Units symbolized and labeled by unique values in USE_TYPE or ASSIGNMENT_TYPE or some other custom field? You may be able to use Arcade (configured using the button shown in screenshot below) and conditionally display the word 'Vacant' as the label if that's the only thing you wanted to achieve. Alternatively, you can use Calculate Field (also shown in screenshot below) and set the desired values in a separate field and use that field for labeling.

[DarrenLloyd__DOIT]

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[DarrenLloyd__DOIT]

Thank you for responding. I am still struggling, for example, with one office that has two desks for two people to work. In the Space Planner app there is no way to assign one occupant to the space and also visualize a "vacant" desk for the other unassigned occupant. A solution from Esri was to create a Unit that is called "desk" and place it inside the actual unit. This creates new Units with the same Name (example 2.302) in the service and could be difficult to keep organized. Do you have any recommendations for this scenario? 

[GauravJobanputra]

Hello @DarrenLloyd__DOIT, you can use the move occupant tool to move the 'point' associated with the person who has an assignment to clearly visualize the 'vacant' desk. See screenshot below. This will avoid the need to create an additional 'desk' unit.

[DarrenLloyd__DOIT]

Hey @GauravJobanputra . I've tried that solution. It works great when both occupants are assigned to the room. However I can't find a simple solution for when I have one named occupant and one "vacant" occupant. Once one occupant is assigned to the Unit, it changes color and it visually looks like the Unit is fully occupied. However there is a second desk that is vacant and unoccupied. But there is no way to know that. 

[GauravJobanputra]

Hello @DarrenLloyd__DOIT in that case, yes, either you have two distinct units or you can model a field say, 'Occupancy' and symbolize your map based on values Vacant, Partially Occupied, Occupied (and even Over Occupied if it is applicable in your scenrio). You would calculate those values based on capacity and current assignments. In ArcGIS Enterprise, you can even use rules to automate it so the values change dynamically when you are making/updating assignments.

This creates new Units with the same Name (example 2.302) in the service and could be difficult to keep organized.

Can you elaborate a little? Are you splitting the Unit or creating new ones? You can use the Floor Plan Editor app to split units.