Add Field Based Suitability Criteria (Business Analyst)

Available with Business Analyst license.

Summary

Adds criteria based on the numerical fields existing in the input layer.

Usage

Parameters

LabelExplanationData Type
Input Suitability Analysis Layer

The Suitability Analysis layer that will be used in the analysis.

Feature Layer
Fields

The numeric fields from which the suitability criteria will be determined.

Field

Derived Output

LabelExplanationData Type
Output Suitability Analysis Layer

The name of the Suitability Analysis layer that will be added to the map.

Feature Layer
Output Criteria Name

The name of the criteria that will be added to the Suitability Analysis layer.

String

arcpy.ba.AddFieldBasedSuitabilityCriteria(in_analysis_layer, fields)
NameExplanationData Type
in_analysis_layer

The Suitability Analysis layer that will be used in the analysis.

Feature Layer
fields
[fields,...]

The numeric fields from which the suitability criteria will be determined.

Field

Derived Output

NameExplanationData Type
out_analysis_layer

The name of the Suitability Analysis layer that will be added to the map.

Feature Layer
out_criteria_name

The name of the criteria that will be added to the Suitability Analysis layer.

String

Code sample

AddFieldBasedSuitabilityCriteria example (Python window)

The following Python window script demonstrates how to use the AddFieldBasedSuitabilityCriteria tool.

import arcpy
arcpy.ba.AddFieldBasedSuitabilityCriteria("UC West Suitability", "populationtotals_totpop_cy;householdincome_medhinc_cy")

Environments

Licensing information

  • Basic: Requires Business Analyst
  • Standard: Requires Business Analyst
  • Advanced: Requires Business Analyst

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