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Empty Output from Summarize Within (tutorial: Map and analyze food access)

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IntgPlsC
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I've been learning ArcGIS through my school, and we started working on the tutorial Map and analyze food access from ArcGIS Learn. At some point (I think the section is titled Summarize potential food deserts), we are instructed to use the Summarize Within analysis tool with Emergency Food Providers as the summary polygon layer and a previously-created Enriched Ward Boundaries layer as the input features. Although there is clearly-visible overlap between the EFP layer and the EWB layer, Summarize Within returns only the warning "Empty layer generated."

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

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Koen
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Hey @IntgPlsC thanks for reaching out! I'll be going through the tutorial to see if I am able to reproduce the issue, this might take me a little bit due to the length of the tutorial. Could you confirm if under section "Summarize potential food deserts", question 3, do you have the same 'Count of features' in both the input and summary polygon layer? 

Screenshot:
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IntgPlsC
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Hey Koen! Thanks for responding so quickly.
Yes, the EFP and EWB layers have 258 and 8 features respectively.

Screenshot:

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Once again, thank you so much!

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LGriff
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I'm curious if you ever found a fix for this.  We are working through a different tutorial (Use species distribution patterns to assess protected areas) but are running into a similar problem where the resulting layer doesn't have any data in the table that is generated

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