Indoor Viewer - Search for people assigned to a hotel

[AndrewBowne]

I have people to assigned to  hotels. These hotels are assigned to units.  Using the Indoor Viewer, Anyone have any idea how you can search for a person assigned to a hotel and zoom to the unit?

[Jinho_Kang]

If someone in your organization has already booked a hotel through the indoors viewer app, then you can search his/her name in the search bar; the search result pop-up will display the searched person's booked hotel along with the assigned office location (if there's any).

FYI, to enable the "people-search" in the Indoors Viewer app, use the Indoors Category configuration to set up the system to search which attribute fields the app should look into in ArcGIS Pro.

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/indoors/create-an-indoors-category.htm

[AndrewBowne]

Thanks, @Jinho_Kang.  This somewhat answers my question however maybe I wasn't descriptive enough in what I am trying to accomplish.  Also, maybe using Hotels isn't exactly the right workflow...

Here is my scenario:  We have many individuals who do not have a true office location.  For instance, Carpenters, Plumbers, Groundskeepers, etc.  What I did was create a hotel for each of these groups and assigned all the respective people to the hotel.  Then I assigned that hotel to their shop location (Unit).  So, the Carpenter Shop (a Unit) has the Carpenters Hotel assigned to it.  Same for Plumbers and Groundskeepers respectively.  What I was looking to accomplish is for any user to search for "John Doe" (a plumber) would find him in the plumbers hotel and zoom to the plumbing shop (UNIT).  Does that make sense?  Or, is my workflow not correct?

I have successfully set up searching for people who are assigned to actual office units.  That works.  I was hoping to extend the functionality further.

Thank you!

[Jinho_Kang]

Hi there

I think you can bypass the office hotels for your scenario, as it adds additional work for those 'floating' individuals to book the locations in advance... and Admin has to change the assigned units every time they relocate.

The simplest method would be updating the Occupants/Peoples layer whenever their locations are changed. The Occupants/Peoples layer is meant to be dynamic;

1. Admin can use Space Planner to unassign->assign their new locations 

2. Use the "Update Occupants Feature" tool to periodically update the staff's latest location

3. Provide those individuals access privileges to the space planner to update their locations. -> Admin merges the latest plan daily/weekly/periodically.

Obviously, those 3 options would require knowing where they would be transferring in advance.

Let me know if the above workflows would work for you.

Thanks.

[AndrewBowne]

These folks really don't and never will have a true home. That's why I assigned them to a Hotel.  They mostly work in the field or out in the facility.  I figured assigning them to a hotel would put them in a "bucket" as assigned.  Then taking them one step further I could assign that hotel (bucket) to the unit which represents their shop.  That'll never change.  

I guess I could assign all these employees to their shop (unit).  I just figured it would be easier to manage as a hotel.  Does that make sense?

[GauravJobanputra]

Hi @AndrewBowne yes, you should assign all of them to the same Unit. There is no need to manage Hotels as it is meant for a different use case. If all of them are assigned to the same Unit then searching for anyone will drop a pin on the map at the same location. Just one thing to keep in mind - all Occupant points will be in the center of the Unit so sometimes labeling may not work as you expect. In that case, you can use Space Planner to move individuals to different locations within the unit (say different corners). Our blog post from last year demonstrates how it is done in Space Planner. You can also do the same in Map Viewer or ArcGIS Pro if you like.