ArcGIS Indoors: allow customization of floor display behaviour

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06-27-2023 08:19 AM
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NicolasGIS
Occasional Contributor III

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 !

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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...