locations within 5 miles of a route

[aehrenwo]

I have a list of locations that I am bringing in the U side of the find nearest tool and I have a Sequence polyline coming into the T input. When I try to find the nearest points within 5 miles I am getting no results on the M output. 

Am I not using this tool correctly? I am still very green on the Spatial tools so not sure what I am doing wrong, 

[BrandonB]

Can you try switching your target and universe and see if that fixes things? 

[BrandonB]

This article goes in depth with the Find Nearest tool and different available configurations: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Knowledge-Base/Tool-Mastery-Find-Nearest/ta-p/1841... 

My other recommendation would be to increase the maximum distance because if none of your matches are within 5 miles you won't receive any results. 

[CharlieS]

Hi @aehrenwo 

The configuration you posted should work, I would review the data and confirm that there are actually points within 5 miles to match as @BrandonB suggested. I put together the attached workflow to show off two things:
1. The Find Nearest tool should return the appropriate results as you have configured it

2. If you want to see how many total points are within 5 miles of the line, the second container shows how to use the Buffer tools to create a 5 mile polygon around the line and a Spatial Match to find any points within. 

Check it out and let me know if you have any questions.