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Allow Calculate Field toolbar to remain open in attribute tables

ArchitSrivastava

The Calculate Field toolbar in ArcGIS Pro attribute tables lets users calculate field values directly from the table view.

Currently, after opening an attribute table, users can click Calculate to display the Calculate Field toolbar. However, if the attribute table is closed and opened again, the toolbar does not remain visible. The user has to click Calculate again each time.

It would be helpful if ArcGIS Pro had an option to keep the Calculate Field toolbar open, or automatically reopen it when an attribute table is opened again.

For example, this could potentially be handled as a global setting in ArcGIS Pro Options, a table view preference, or another application-wide preference.

In my workflow, I often perform repeated field calculations while reviewing and updating attribute data, so having the toolbar remain visible would make the process smoother and reduce repeated clicks.

This would be useful for workflows where users perform repeated field calculations across one or more attribute tables. It would also make the Calculate Field toolbar feel more consistent with other table-based workflows in ArcGIS Pro.

The current Calculate Field toolbar capability is described in this Esri article:

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/analytics/calculate-field-toolbar-arcgis-pro

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Comments

MargaretCrawford

Hi @ArchitSrivastava , thanks for the idea. I have a some follow up questions for you:

Do you often work with multiple attribute tables at once, and if so, how would you expect the Calculate Field toolbar to behave in that context; would you prefer the Calculate Field toolbar to remain open for all attribute tables, or only for the specific table you last used it with?

ArchitSrivastava

Hello @MargaretCrawford

Thanks for following up on this.

From my workflow, I would expect the Calculate Field toolbar to remain open across attribute tables once it has been enabled, rather than being tied only to the specific table where I last used it.

I do work with multiple attribute tables, but usually not all of them at the exact same time. More often, I move from one table to another while reviewing, comparing, reconciling, or updating attributes across different layers or tables.

So in that case, if I enable the Calculate Field toolbar once, it would be helpful if it stays available when I open another attribute table, instead of needing to click Calculate again each time.

For multiple tables open at the same time, I would expect the toolbar to be available for the active table view. I do not think it needs to preserve the exact field, expression, or calculation settings across tables. The main thing I am looking for is the toolbar visibility/state to persist, so repeated field calculation workflows feel smoother across tables.

Hope that helps clarify the use case.

Hornbydd

I regularly work with multiple tables open and this idea to simply keep the calculate bar open if you have closed the table view and reopened seems like a very reasonable idea. But I personally don't hold with the idea of it staying open for all tables. I can see that leading to confusion, why is it open for a table which I never asked it to be open for? This gets worse if, as it is some times normal, that all the tables have similar schemas and field names. Which field in which table is the calculate referencing? Now you might say its always the active view but I don't like the idea of pro defaulting to fields in tables that I was just viewing. I think thats asking for a whole heap of trouble…

When one is going to do something as important as apply a calculate across selections/all rows I think the user needs to actively initiate that rather than Pro opening up calculate bars and keeping them open across multiple tables.