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Add Visibility Range to Extent Indicator

Earl_DeCastro

I would like to request a "Visibility Range" function to be added to the Extent Indicator property options. It would have a Maximum Scale and Minimum Scale range.

This functionally was recently added to "Scale Bar" in ArcGIS Pro 3.3.0

I have a map series which displays districts in the county. Before the update to the Scale Bar, I would have to manually change the map units from miles to feet when a district feature's scale bar would display 0 to 0 miles. I would change it to feet and it would display 0 to 200 feet for example. Now with the update to the Scale Bar, I can set a Scale Bar with miles at a certain scale and a Scale Bar with feet at another scale so the map series will display the correct scale bar depending on the scale of the district shown. So happy!

I am having a similar issue with the Extent Indicator. I have an inset map which shows the location of the district drawn in red on the county map. Some of these smaller districts appear as a red speck on the inset map. To help the viewer see this area on the inset map, I turn on extent indicators which draws an orange circle around the district. With most districts, I turn the extent indicator off as it is easily seen on the inset map. If a Visibility Range was added to Extent Indicator I can run the map series without manually turning on the extent indicator for these smaller districts similar to the Scale Bar which was just updated.

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LindaGreen

This feature would definitely be helpful to add, but in the meantime, could you accomplish something similar with the "Collapse to Point" settings in the extent indicator?

In the screenshots below, the map highlights the entire county if it's large enough. In the case of the city of Falls Church, because the highlighted polygon would be smaller than the "collapse to point" threshold I set, it shows a marker point ("Circle 2" in the default ESRI style) in lieu of highlighting the polygon. You'd have to play around with settings, but if this would work with the way your data is set up, it does automatically flip between highlighting the entire area and drawing the marker point.

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Earl_DeCastro

Thank you so much @LindaGreen for the workaround! Hopefully they will still add visibility range to extent indicators, but in the mean time your suggestion using collapse to point will help immensely. In my case, since I already draw the feature in the inset map in my map series, I set the extent indicator to no color so it doesn't draw twice. I then set the collapse to point to show a ring when the feature is smaller than a set point. I do think a visibility range based on scale is still needed because I have a feature that is narrow and long that does not draw the ring because of the point threshold. I found good compromise though. Thanks again!

LindsayRaabe_FPCWA

Great idea and a cool setting I've learnt about too. May need to implement this in a few map templates.