Hi, I'm creating Composite Locator with 3 Locators for Belgian Addresses, names of waterways and places. Each Locator has 10 Input Fields (Address, Address2, Address3, City, Countrycode, Neighborhood, Postal, PostalExt, Region, Subregion). Only some (max. 4) of these Locator Input Fields ara useful (Address (for street), Adress2 (for house number), City (for municipality) and Postal (for zip code)), the others don't contain any related input data. In Belgium official government address datasets there are no Countrycode, Neighborhood, PostalExt, Region or Subregion defined. (It should be possible to remove or disable these Locator Input fields in the first place I think)
When creating a Composite Locator it's mandatory to map all these Locator Input Fields, so there are a lot of redundant Locator Input Fields to map. One option is to leave them there, but that is very confusing to a user of the Composite Locator in ArcGis Pro and it comes across as sloppy and not applied to Belgian addresses.
Another option is to create 1 collect input field (unmapped) and place all unused Locator Input Fields below. This is accepted when creating a Composite Locator, but gives an error message (00010) when geocoding indicating that the Locator is invalid.
If you create 3 Input Fields each with the Locator Input fields of the corresponding Locators, it will work.
Again, of course, this is somewhat strange for a user. A user expects to see only the useful input fields when geocoding in ArcGIS Pro.
So, what to do with redundant Locator input fields with a composite Locator? Is there a solution for this so that a user only sees useful input fields when geocoding?
thanks in advance for taking a look at this.
Screenshots from the option with 3 Input Fields with redundant Locator Input fields.