GreetingsDerek Law I am looking at using a web map and analysis tools to teach a brief class on GIS in K12. I had a somewhat related question...
I was expecting if I graphically selected a single street segment, it would buffer just that segment. It buffers them all. So, I then went into the Attribute Table, and clicked the one record, then clicked Show Selected Records. Only that one row then displayed in the Attribute table, out of 8. OK great, so now I thought... it will just buffer that one segment. However, it still does them all.
As you suggest, I then used the Filter to show the segment by a unique ID they each have. That worked perfectly. So, select by attribute works fine.
But I was expecting geoprocessing tools to execute ONLY on selected records, just like how they do in ArcMap. Select by location / graphically selecting with mouse is often quicker than via attribute SQL query. Am I missing some sort of option to execute the GP Analysis tools only on 'selected records' somewhere? I looked around and did not see anything to that effect. Thanks!