Balloon callout vertex editing

Question

I am trying to move the location of annotation features and also move the vertex of  the balloon callout to the correct place.

It was easy in ArcGIS Desktop, but how do I do this now? very frustrating to say the least.

These features were created using Convert Labels to Annotation.

KoryKramer · Answer

Note that improvements are coming in ArcGIS Pro 2.5, planned for January 2020.

https://community.esri.com/ideas/16580 has been updated to In Product Plan.

jcadkin · Answer

Tom,

Thank you for the feedback.  We are considering an enhancement  to moving annotation for an upcoming release.

Thanks,

Jennifer

TomMagdaleno · Answer

Hi Jennifer,

I recently had the misfortune of trying to recreate an ArcMap map in Pro.  This particular map has a lot of call outs and they are not in the line feature class, but just text in the map.  Trying to do this in Pro would take 10 times as long as in ArcMap.  The number of windows, conversions and clicks required is astronomical.  But maybe I was missing something?  It seems that the workflow in Pro would be to

1.  Add all text to a Label field in my Barrier Feature Classs

2.  Setup annotation with offset balloon callouts

3.  Convert to annotation

4.  Select and move each label individually.

Problems with this besides all the steps is that it gave me an error when I tried to make it feature linked, so changing the annotation would take more steps and could have mismatched data between the feature class and annotation feature class.

Selecting a callout and moving it required much more dexterity in where i grabbed it and how i moved it.  It is not as simple.

Let me know what you think

Tom