Add Field Based Suitability Criteria (Business Analyst)—ArcGIS Pro

Available with Business Analyst license.

Summary

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

The input analysis layer can be created by the Make Suitability Analysis Layer tool.
Set the influence for each criteria using the Set Criteria Property tool.

Label	Explanation	Data Type
Input Suitability Analysis Layer	The Suitability Analysis layer that will be used in the analysis.	Feature Layer; Group Layer
Fields	The numeric fields from which the suitability criteria will be determined.	String

Label	Explanation	Data Type
Output Suitability Analysis Layer	The name of the Suitability Analysis layer that will be added to the map.	Feature Layer; Group 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)

Name	Explanation	Data Type
in_analysis_layer	The Suitability Analysis layer that will be used in the analysis.	Feature Layer; Group Layer
fields [fields,...]	The numeric fields from which the suitability criteria will be determined.	String

Name	Explanation	Data Type
out_analysis_layer	The name of the Suitability Analysis layer that will be added to the map.	Feature Layer; Group Layer
out_criteria_name	The name of the criteria that will be added to the Suitability Analysis layer.	String

AddFieldBasedSuitabilityCriteria example (Python window)

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

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