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How do I remove purple border around chart?

Hornbydd

I have created a simple histogram chart from data in arcpro 3.7 grouped by sediment size. Data is displaying as expected except a purple border around one of the graphs, I show this below.

How on Earth do I remove this border? It seems like an unintended bug? I've tried holding down crtl or shift and clicking on graphs but nothing seems to remove it, at best by clicking on the other graph the border swaps over to the other graph. It means I can't copy the chart to clipboard to insert into a report as it retains the irritating purple border.

Any advice?

Duncan

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ChristopherAllen

Hi, I'm just cross-posting my reply to Duncan in his Idea:

Hi thanks for the Idea! You're 100% right--the purple border in this case is not necessary when the chart is exported and thus should not be displayed. This is the behavior for other chart types displayed as a grid (when the preview chart is not being shown). We will fix this, but in the meantime I wanted to point out that you can control the visibility of the mini chart selection outline in the Format tab of the Chart Properties pane. This should hide the selection outline when exported.

Hornbydd

Christopher,

Perfect! That did the trick, thank you. Now I know what its called I went searching for it in the help file. I even used the document assistant. There appears to be no documentation in the esri arcpro help file on what the chart selection outline is and how to turn it off/on.

I would recommend you point this out to the documentation team so they can add it and allow people and no doubt ai to discover what it is and how to turn it off/on.

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DanPatterson

weird... even their example has a colored border (walkability example

Histogram | ArcGIS Pro documentation

It is like you need to "unselect" all histograms

Hornbydd

Agree but I don't seem to be able to unselect a histogram? Seems like an obvious thing to do but not possible. Unless there is some secret set of key strokes...?

Robert_LeClair

That purple border is the chart view focus/active selection indicator in ArcGIS Pro (it’s not a “chart border” formatting setting), so there isn’t an option in the Chart Properties pane to turn it off.

A workflows to consider so the purple border doesn't show. Click a different view/pane first (for example, click your Map tab or the Contents pane) to remove focus from the chart, then try Export -> Capture To Clipboard again.

Hornbydd

Robert,

Unfortunately that idea of clicking onto a different view/pane and even closing down the chart properties pane does not work, the purple border still persists.

I have discovered that if I export to a PNG it does lose the purple border, so it is possible to get an image of the chart without the purple border. I'm going to suggest an idea that the copy to clipboard does not retain the annoying purple selection border!

ChristopherAllen

Hi, I'm just cross-posting my reply to Duncan in his Idea:

Hornbydd

Christopher,

I would recommend you point this out to the documentation team so they can add it and allow people and no doubt ai to discover what it is and how to turn it off/on.

ChristopherAllen

Thanks Duncan! Yeah, that's great feedback--we will look into improving the documentation to make this clearer.

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