Attribute Assistant - NEAREST_FEATURE_ATTRIBUTES - Empty Geometry

KennyWebster · ‎03-12-2014

Just upgraded from 10.0 to 10.2.

Worked fine in 10.0. Just pulling 2 attributes from a street feature class (from sde) and loading them into a civic point feature class (also sde). For whatever reason it's now giving an error saying cannot be performed on empty geometry. Clearly the geometry is not empty.

Any clues?

KennyWebster · ‎03-13-2014

Had some more time to poke around at this today.

I exported the fc's from SDE to a File Geodatabase to test to see if it was something in SDE and got an error saying feature not found(instead of the empty geometry error when it was in SDE). I verified that there was indeed a feature within the distance attribute by measuring.

So tried taking the original files from the included geodatabase to test with. Guess what? Same error. I didn't modify the dynamic value table at all. There was on NEAREST_FEATURE_ATTRIBUTE rule in it. So added both those associated fc's and gave it a try. From the log file:

Row Info
        Row Number 13
        TableName: FacilitySitePoint
        FieldName: FULLADDR
        ValueInfo: SiteAddressPoint|FULLADDR|FULLADDR|150
        ValueMethod: NEAREST_FEATURE_ATTRIBUTES
        On Create: 1
        On Change: 1

      Checking for Subtype Restriction
      Field Name: Full Address was found at index: 8
                  Trying NEAREST_FEATURE_ATTRIBUTES
                  Looking for layer: SiteAddressPoint
                  Site Address Points layer Found: SiteAddressPoint
                  Checking Field Mapping
                  Field Mapping verified
                  Searching for Nearest Feature
                  No Feature was found, default fields
                  Finished: NEAREST_FEATURE_ATTRIBUTES

AcrGIS 10.2.1 and Att Assistant 10.2.0.3

RobertBorchert · ‎03-13-2014

Open your attribute table and sort the values on shape_length from shortest to longest.

Delete all Zero values if any and fix any issues with lengths less than 5. For road centerlines you really should clean up things less than 10.

Also, turn snapping off it it is on.

Just upgraded from 10.0 to 10.2.

Worked fine in 10.0. Just pulling 2 attributes from a street feature class (from sde) and loading them into a civic point feature class (also sde). For whatever reason it's now giving an error saying cannot be performed on empty geometry. Clearly the geometry is not empty.

Any clues?

KennyWebster · ‎03-13-2014

Open your attribute table and sort the values on shape_length from shortest to longest.

Delete all Zero values if any and fix any issues with lengths less than 5. For road centerlines you really should clean up things less than 10.

Also, turn snapping off it it is on.

There's no 0 length roads, and only 3 less then 10m. Remember I've also tried this with the example datasets provided by ESRI and am getting the same issue (this would be points to points).

I did try turning snapping off but got the same issue.

KennyWebster · ‎03-14-2014

Right now I'm just working with ESRI example datasets.

Tried the following:
-uninstalling the att assistant add on
-Re-downloaded the full package
-Deleted any existing configuration files
-Reinstalled add in
-Opened a ArcMap with a new map, added generateId, dynamic value and the two layers that use nearest_feature_attribute
-tried added a point to facility site points under 10 feet from a site address point
-got the same error saying no features found

MikeMillerGIS · ‎03-31-2014

I believe this might be related to a bug that was logged a few weeks ago(NIM099431). We resolved the issue and it will be included in the next release.

DominickCisson · ‎10-14-2015

I'm seeing the exact same behavior, over a year later... Attribute Assistant version 6.26.2015. Adding an address point, and trying to pull some fields off of street centerlines in the creation phase.

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Row Info

Row Number 1

TableName: ADDRESS_POINTS

FieldName:

ValueInfo: CENTERLINES|ST_NAME,PRE_DIR,SUF_DIR|STREETNAME,PREDIRECTION,SUFDIRECTION|500

ValueMethod: NEAREST_FEATURE_ATTRIBUTES

On Create: 1

On Change: 0

Checking for Subtype Restriction

Field is not specified, empty, or set for all.

Trying NEAREST_FEATURE_ATTRIBUTES

Looking for layer: CENTERLINES

Street Centerlines layer Found: CENTERLINES

Checking Field Mapping

Field Mapping verified

Searching for Nearest Feature

No Feature was found, default fields

Finished: NEAREST_FEATURE_ATTRIBUTES

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If I take off the 500 foot search distance, essentially setting it to zero, and click directly on a street centerline, the message changes slightly, but still finds nothing.

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Row Info

Row Number 1

TableName: ADDRESS_POINTS

FieldName:

ValueInfo: CENTERLINES|ST_NAME,PRE_DIR,SUF_DIR|STREETNAME,PREDIRECTION,SUFDIRECTION

ValueMethod: NEAREST_FEATURE_ATTRIBUTES

On Create: 1

On Change: 0

Checking for Subtype Restriction

Field is not specified, empty, or set for all.

Trying NEAREST_FEATURE_ATTRIBUTES

WARNING: search distance as not specified, defaulting to 0

Looking for layer: CENTERLINES

Street Centerlines layer Found: CENTERLINES

Checking Field Mapping

Field Mapping verified

Searching for Nearest Feature

Features Found, looping for closest

No Feature was found, default fields

Finished: NEAREST_FEATURE_ATTRIBUTES

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Does the NEAREST_FEATURE_ATTRIBUTES method really work in AA?

MikeMillerGIS · ‎10-14-2015

Could you send me a map package so I can repo the issue?

mmiller@esri.com

DominickCisson · ‎10-14-2015

Sure. It's pretty big, so I'll send an email with instructions on where to retrieve it...

MikeMillerGIS · ‎10-14-2015

Dominick,

I am not sure what is going on. I ran through your map package in debug mode and it is working. Could we try to do a clean install and just to verify it is not working in the 6.25.2015 version?

You need to find the folder(path below) with the Attribute Assistant add in and if you have them installed, the water editing tools, address tools and the project costing tools and remove those folders. Then open and close arcmap, then reinstall the 6.25 attribute assistant.

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\ESRI\Desktop10.3\AssemblyCache