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Can you create a multi-level dropdown button to organize and select features?

DerekSalinas

Hello All,

Within ArcMap, we could create a custom button, via python, to act as an organized catalog to add features to a map from a geodatabase. All the menu items were neatly organized depending on the category of the feature. This was a nice way to present the data because there is a lot to organize. In addition it would call up the feature class from a geodatabase and utilize the symbology from a specified layer.

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Now i have created a very basic button in ArcPro to call up features from a specified geodatabase, however i can't find any information on how to organize the buttons into further dropdown categories or utilize layer symbology.

Any help on code or a point in the right direction would be incredibly helpful and I appreciate your time.

Thanks,

Derek Salinas

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DerekSalinas

Good Morning Gintautas,

Its strange though, there is a section in the 'Insert' Tab that makes me think you can do a split button in a split button. Within 'Insert,' you will see the button 'Task' in the 'Projects' group is a split button that drops down to a regular button and another split button. I'm just not sure how to organize that properly within the code.

GKmieliauskas

Hi Derek,

I thought that we can add spiltbutton to another splitbutton. But it impossible now. I have made test. So better solution would be customControl where inside you have wpf tree or bunch of expanders with styled lists of buttons. Then you can manage them on fly depending on your situation. This is more advanced way which requires more WPF knowledge.

Custom control sample you can find: arcgis-pro-sdk-community-samples-master\Framework\RibbonControls

It is not what you exactly need but you can find how to add custom control to ribbon and how it works with mvvm.

DerekSalinas

Thanks for the suggestions Uma! Although I think with the amount of data that there is to organize and the subcategories needed a simple menu structure like the previous ArcMap python example i have above would be best. Galleries just seem too invasive from a UX standpoint.

Currently I just have the simple button pallet with drop down that contains a few feature class buttons. I read somewhere that it is not possible to contain several button_pallets or splits within one but im hoping that is wrong.

UmaHarano

Along with split buttons, another way you can organize multiple buttons/tools is to use "galleries".

Here are a couple of samples and screenshots of galleries you can create with Pro SDK:

1. OpenItemDialogBrowseFilter sample creates this gallery

2. Couple of Framework Gallery samples: Gallery Configure Gallery

3. ProGuide: Gallery

Thanks

Uma

DerekSalinas

Good Morning Gintautas,

Thanks for your timely reply. It was very helpful for a base case addin. Im curious, if i had too many button elements in a split button and they needed further organization, is there a way I can "subgroup" a list of split buttons in an existing split button? Would that just require inserting split buttons in the parent?

Regards,

Derek

GKmieliauskas

Hi Derek,

If your structure is always the same you can define it in config.daml splitbuttons section. More info here:

ProGuide Palettes and Split Buttons · Esri/arcgis-pro-sdk Wiki · GitHub

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