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1. On the Desktop, double-click the Computer icon > gisdata >  GISData (\\file-rnassmb.rdf.rice.edu\research\FondrenGDC) (RO:) >  > GDCTraining > 1_Short_Courses > > Introduction_to_Geoprocessing.
2. To create a personal copy of the tutorial data, drag the Geoprocessing folder onto the Desktop.
3. Close all windows.

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1. On the ribbon, click the Analysis tab.
2. On the Analysis tab, within the first Geoprocessing group, click the Tools button.
   
   
   
   

Notice that the Geoprocessing pane has opened on the right as a new tab on top of the Contents Catalog pane. Typically, you would use the 'Find Tools' search box at the top of the Geoprocessing pane to search for the name of the tool you'd like to use, but, at times, especially when learning the software, it can be helpful to view the full hierarchy of all the tools available, because you will often discover related and helpful tools that you didn't know existed and wouldn't know to search for. You might also completely forget the name of a tool, but be able to locate it based on the hierarchy. For these reasons, we will be manually navigating the toolboxes throughout this tutorial. The more typical workflow of searching directly for a specific tool will be covered briefly at the end of the tutorial.

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1. For ‘Join Features’, use the drop-down box to menu to select the HPDCrime2010_HISD layer.
2. For ‘Output Feature Class,’ rename the feature class from HISDElemSchools_HalfMileBuff to “HISDElemSchools_HalfMileBuffer_WithCrimeStats".

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1. In the Contents pane, right-click the HISDElemSchools layer name and select Attribute Table.

Remember that, at this point, the attribute table only contains the school name, address, and grade range.

1. Close the HISDElemSchools table view.
2. In the Contents pane, right-click the HISDElemSchools layer name and select Joins and Relates > Spatial Join.
3. For ‘Join Features’, use the drop-down box to select the HPDDistricts_HISD layer.
4. For ‘Output Feature Class,’ rename the feature class from HISDElemSchools_SpatialJoin to “HISDElemSchools_WithHPDDistricts".
5. Click Run.

Since each school is entirely within a single district and no data is being summarized, it is okay to leave all of the output fields. The new layer should appear at the top of your Contents pane. 

1. Right-click the  the new HISDElemSchools_WithHPDDistricts layer name and select Attribute Table.Scroll to the right and notice the

Notice the newly added District field

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that tells you which police district each school falls within.

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Notice that the Scroll down the table view and notice that five schools do not have a district assigned to them. That is because those schools fall within HISD, but do not fall within the City of Houston police jurisdiction.

1. Close the HISDElemSchools_WithHPDDistricts table view.

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In this tutorial, you navigated to various geoprocessing tools directly through the Toolbox; however, it is likely that when you go to work on your own, you may not remember exactly where all those tools are located.   As long as you can remember the name of the tool or what it does, you can find it using the search function.

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1. In the 'Find Tools' search box, type “Clipclip” and press Enter.
2. Click Clip (Analysis Tools) to open the tool parameters.

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Within the history tab, you will see a complete list of all of the tools you have run in order. Double-clicking on any tool in the history will reopen the tool with the exact settings used in the that run. This Using the History tab is a great way to review previous work for documentation purposes or to rerun a set of tools or slightly modify a setting tool parameters with minimal thought.