Validate Territories (Territory Design)

Available with Business Analyst license.

Summary

Validates a territory solution for invalid territories.

Usage

• Run this tool after manually editing the territory solution. Any violations will need to be reviewed and resolved manually.

• Validation issues will be included in the tool messages and added to the Territory Validation Errors field or Feature Validation Errors field.

• Territory validation issues will be displayed in the Territory Validation Errors field.

• The Feature Validation Errors field will display features that contain validation issues for a territory.

• The tool will analyze the territory solution for the following errors:

  • Barriers violation
  • Buffer distance constraint violation
  • Minimum attribute constraint limit violation
  • Maximum attribute constraint limit violation
  • Minimum distance between centers constraint violation
  • Maximum territory radius constraint violation
  • Territory is empty
  • Territory center is undefined
  • Territory is not contiguous
  • Territory has holes
  • Territory name is not unique

Parameters

Dialog

Label	Explanation	Data Type
Input Territory Solution	The territory solution that will be validated.	Group Layer; Feature Dataset; String
Level	The level that will be analyzed in the validation.	String

Derived Output

Label	Explanation	Data Type
Updated Territory Solution	The territory solution output.	Group Layer

Python

arcpy.td.ValidateTerritories(in_territory_solution, level)

Name	Explanation	Data Type
in_territory_solution	The territory solution that will be validated.	Group Layer; Feature Dataset; String
level	The level that will be analyzed in the validation.	String

Derived Output

Name	Explanation	Data Type
out_territory_solution	The territory solution output.	Group Layer

Code sample

ValidateTerritories example (Python window)

The following Python window script demonstrates how to use the ValidateTerritories function.

import arcpy
arcpy.td.ValidateTerritories(in_territory_solution, level)

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments.

Licensing information

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