CommunityViz® Pro, also known as (CViz® Pro), is the latest and newest CommunityViz® version to support Esri’s migration from ArcMAP Desktop to ArcGIS Pro online. CViz® Pro adds interactive, dynamic analysis and visualization capabilities to the ArcGIS Pro desktop experience.
It is ideal for planners and others who want to make informed, collaborative planning decisions using spatial data. CViz® Pro works as an add-In to ArcGIS Pro, providing functions that you use along with and in addition to ArcGIS Pro.
To understand CViz® Pro, you will need to be familiar with basic GIS concepts and terms like maps and scenes, layers and feature classes, feature attributes, and symbology. It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with ArcGIS Pro before using CViz® Pro.
ArcGIS Pro 3.3 or above
Windows 10
Microsoft .Net Framework 4.8 or above
The CViz Pro user interface is tightly integrated with the main ArcGIS Pro application, which uses a contextual tab-based ribbon, views for managing map displays and tables, panes for displaying contents, commands, and more. See ArcGIS Pro help for more on the ArcGIS Pro user interface and commands.
When you open a CViz Pro project, the CViz Pro tab is displayed on the main Pro ribbon. This tab includes the primary buttons for interacting with your analysis, but most of these buttons are also available on other tabs, as noted below.
Use this drop-down list to change the scenario you wish to work with. This is also available on ArGIS Pro’s Map tab.
Scenarios – scenarios represent different decision-making alternatives. An analysis can contain multiple scenarios. This button opens the window for managing the scenarios in your analysis.
Tags – tags are a way to categorize and group your Assumptions, Indicators, and Attributes. Manage your analysis tags here.
Data – data can be used from a variety of sources, including file geodatabases, shapefiles, standalone tables, raster and image datasets, network datasets, and GIS services hosted on ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online. This is the place to review all of that data as it relates to CViz Pro. See About Layers for more information.
Charts – This button opens the charts pane, where any charts in your analysis are displayed, and you can access additional tools to manage your charts. This is also available on ArcGIS Pro’s View tab. See About Charts for more information.
Assumptions – Displays the Assumptions pane so you can view and modify assumption values to evaluate analysis impacts. You also have access to create, edit and delete assumptions on the Assumptions pane. This is also available on the ArcGIS Pro View tab. See About Assumptions Pane for more information.
Indicators – Displays the Indicators pane, which lists the current value and settings of indicators for one or more scenarios in your analysis. You also have access to create, edit and delete indicators on the You also have access to create, edit and delete assumptions on the Assumptions pane. This is also available on the ArcGIS Pro View tab. See About Indicators Pane for more information.
Attributes – View attribute properties in your analysis, including dynamic functionality, tags and formula settings. This is also available on the ArcGIS Pro View tab. See About Attribute Pane for more information.
Analysis Settings – View basic analysis properties. The properties page is part of the ArcGIS Pro Options sheet, which can also be viewed from the Options tab on the ArcGIS Pro Project backstage. See About Analysis Settings for more information.
Update Analysis – This button opens a new window that assists you in forcing certain calculations to run. See About Update Analysis for more information.
View in 3D – Opens the Analysis Scene. Creates the Scene if it does not yet exist.
Help – Opens Cviz Pro Help
Paint – Use this tool to paint or sketch in analysis maps. This is also available on the ArcGIS Pro Edit tab. See Working with the Painter Tool for more information.
Suspend Updates – Click this button to suspend analysis updates; click it again to resume them. It appears in a pressed state if updates are currently suspended. This is also available on the ArcGIS Pro Edit tab. See About Dynamic Analysis Updates for more information.
Suitability – The Suitability Wizard helps you set up suitability analyses, which rate the suitability of different locations (features) for particular purposes. See About Suitability Analysis for more information.
Allocator – The Allocator Wizard is a decision tool that helps you model patterns of future growth. It distributes a user-specified ‘growth’ amount across a single layer according to the capacity and desirability of each feature in the layer. See About Allocator for more information.
Many of the CViz Pro windows contains lists and grids of data. These have certain usability features in common:
Columns can be resized by hovering your cursor between two columns and then, once it has changed to the doublesided arrow, clicking and dragging the separator to the desired width.
There may be cases in which a column is too narrow to show all of the text in all of the rows. If so, you can doubleclick the column separator on the right side of this column to force it to increase its width to account for the item with the longest string.
Most columns include the ability to sort the rows alphabetically simply by clicking on the column header. Clicking the header again sorts the rows in the opposite order. To sort by multiple columns (i.e. to sort Attributes by Layer and then Name), click the first column header and then hold the Shift key and click the second column header.
The column order of many CViz Pro grids can also be changed. To do so, click and hold the column header, and then drag the column to the desired location.
When working with a CViz Pro analysis, there are some things that you can do to improve your experience.
Close the 3D map pane when it is not needed. Often, rendering the 3D map can take some time, even if the 3D map is not the active view. Also, changing the active scenario will not only change it in the 2D map, but will also change it in 3D, but only if the 3D map view is open. Again, this can take some time. See About Scenarios & Map Panes for more information.
Be aware that updates may be slow; turn off dynamic updates on long running formulas until you need to update them. Some processing enhancements that are included in Scenario 360 are not yet available in ArcGIS Pro, so postponing running updates on formulas that may take some time will improve your experience. See About Analysis Updates.
Using data in the same coordinate system will improve spatial formula performance. Check Formula Best Practices for more details on improving performance in your formulas.
Use CViz Pro’s Paint Styles properties to change edit template default values; this will ensure they are synced across all scenarios. If you need to change other edit template settings, use ArcGIS Pro’s Manage Templates pane.
Take some time to explore ArcGIS Pro’s capabilities, including the following:
The 3D mapping may provide an alternative way to analyze and visualize your data.
ArcGIS Pro is more tightly integrated with the ArcGIS platform, making it easier to access ArcGIS Online content, incorporate demographic data, and share maps.
Explore the new layout capabilities in ArcGIS Pro for generating map outputs of your analysis.
A Scenario 360 analysis can only be imported from CViz Pro’s Welcome to CViz Pro screen.
There are two ways to access this screen:
Option 1: This screen is automatically shown when you use launch CViz Pro from the Windows Start menu.
Option 2: It is always available on the CViz Pro tab on ArcGIS Pro’s Backstage.
To access the Backstage:
If you already have ArcGIS Pro open, click Project, then select the CViz Pro tab.
Or
If you are at ArcGIS Pro’s start page, choose to open another project, select another project template, or click the About ArcGIS Pro option near the bottom. From the Welcome screen, click “Create a new CViz Pro Analysis.” From this screen, you have the option of creating an analysis from an existing Scenario 360 5.2 or 5.3 analysis. Choose this option and follow the path to your Scenario 360 analysis.
For more on working with an imported 360 Analysis, see 360 Analysis.
Select the compatible installer for CViz Pro for your current ArcGIS Pro version.
Refer to How-to: Install & Activate a CommunityViz® Pro License for installation steps.
Scenario 360 is an extension to ArcGIS Desktop that adds interactive analysis tools and a decision-making framework to the ArcGIS platform. A Scenario 360 Analysis contains Dynamic Layers and Attributes, Scenarios, Indicators, and Assumptions. These are created in Scenario 360 and ArcGIS Desktop.
CommunityViz for Pro (CViz Pro) also adds interactive analysis tools and Scenario 360’s same decision-making framework, but is an add-in to ArcGIS Pro, Esri’s next-generation desktop product.
The frameworks of Scenario 360 and CViz Pro are the same. Following is a list of functionalities that exists in both:
CommunityViz’s Dynamic Analysis Engine (link) for creating and running formulas.
CommunityViz components such as indicators and assumptions
Scenarios to analyze different options
Suitability decision tool
Allocator decision tool
Here are Scenario 360 components and functionality that are NOT included in CViz Pro 2.1 but are part of future roadmap development.
Presentation tools (Analysis Publisher, Export to Google Earth, etc.)
Alerts
Reports
Analysis logs and sticky notes
Common & Custom Impacts Wizards
Scenario map comparison – there is not a built-in tool to compare scenario maps. Refer to the Scenario & Maps section of the help for an explanation of how to do a side-by-side comparison of maps. You can still view indicator and assumption values for different scenarios as well as view scenario values in charts.
Allocator – the wizard has been simplified. But this also means that some options that were available in Scenario 360’s Allocator are no longer available in CViz Pro’s Allocator.
Tags – Scenario 360 ‘categories’ are now referred to as ‘tags’. You can assign multiple tags to a single component for more options to organize your analysis.
Some CommunityViz®functions have been implemented as geoprocessing tools for performance reasons. The results should be the same, but there are some ‘best practices’ for calling some of these functions that may change how you want use them in formulas. See ‘Creating Formulas’ for more.
Scenario 360 includes several options for viewing and sharing your analysis in 3D. But ArcGIS Pro includes the ability to work in 3D within the same platform, and CViz Pro components are available in the 3D view as well!
