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Redesign the label expression pane to be usable

wayfaringrob

ArcGIS Pro is really unfriendly to small screens, even when maximized. Here, I have a student trying to build a label class with existing fields. Even after I showed her how to collapse the ribbon (originally the fields were showing one at a time with no scrollbar), she's still having to click in an impossibly tiny window to sort through the field names.

In ArcMap, the window is laid out better; there's much less wasted vertical space and plenty of room.

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Comments

ChrisUnderwood

Hello @wayfaringrob , as a suggestion, you can Float the Label Class form. Then you can Maximize it to any size up to your whole screen if you like.

wayfaringrob

@ChrisUnderwoodin the screenshot I shared, the pane is already about as tall as it can be. I don't see how making it wider would help with the tiny scrolling lists - even in your screenshot, they only show 3 fields at a time - or underutilized negative space. Floating introduces new problems; the pane structure could be quite nice if it worked a little better.

KarenStevens

@ChrisUnderwood , I am seconding @wayfaringrob (and this is a problem with more than just labeling). Even with the screen Floating and maximized, I see a grand total of 3 (and a half?) fields at a time.

When docked, I see one field at a time, and the scroll up/down does not work. A dropdown option would be more useful in such a case where only one field is viewable at a time.

wayfaringrob

@KarenStevens that 2nd screenshot is exactly how my student's screen looked. For some reason, the whole window gets a minimum height (notice how the whole thing scrolls) but the elements that should totally be scrollable all the time do not have a minimum height set. It is very difficult to use Pro on small screens, mostly because of poor UI oversights like this.

ChrisUnderwood

@KarenStevens What is the Display Resolution of the system you used to take the screenshot above ?

KarenStevens

@ChrisUnderwood That screenshot was on my laptop and has a 1920x1080 resolution (the computer's recommended setting). The screen is 7.5+ inches in height, so not super tall, but also not super small. I do have scaling set to 150% so that I can actually see what is on my screen. When I change it to 125% (which is my computer's recommended setting), it does update ArcPro to show 3 fields at a time, but I am not going to change my settings for one program.

Either way, I think this points out that there is an accessibility component to this issue, and that everyone would benefit from there being a minimum set size (of at least 3 fields? although I would prefer something more like 5), that should display regardless of an individuals resolution or scaling on their computer.

Thanks for your time!