locked legend items
Many thanks Tom that you made such effort and thoroughly explained the bug with Group layer name toggle. Unfortunately, I am still not able to do it right, even in the way you described.
I was fighting with this stupid bug for some time now and only by accident I found out that I am not alone. Just frustrating, indeed.
This bug is just one case more which keeps me from using ArcGIS Pro in many workflow cases and it does not get much better with increased version number. Such a bitter and unfortunate situation.
When we are speaking of legends, please, could anybody shed a light in the matter of size of legend? Why on earth when I resize legend, the frame with grips gets at some point off the legend? For what purpose could that be good? How could one control that? I am completely stunned.
And than, to say the very last frustrating point in the whole story today, please does anybode has a clue why I get no result after search in ArcGIS Pro online Help?
For example, I go to the first page of online help
and enter my search word "legend". This word should be in that help text by any means, isn't it?
I hit search button and get as follows
I should try again later??? Very, very fine stuff, thank you ESRI for the help.
Thank you for any input.
Cheers.
Hi Vladimir,
Sorry to hear that you are having issue with both legends and searching the online help.
Legend Group Layer Name issue
Unfortunately, I cannot help you without knowing the details of your scenario. I assume that you read through my example in a thread above and have tried to toggle the visibility of a Group layer name by selecting and editing the properties of the top-most (in the legend item list) item. If this is failing then this is a bug and should be reported to support (https://support.esri.com/en/contact-tech-support).
We are aware that there is a bug when trying to toggle the Group layer name at once this by selecting and editing ALL legend items at once (see BUG-000128688). We are working to address this issue.
Once you understand that the visibility of the Group layer name is controlled by the group member that is top-most in the Legend list (Contents pane) you should be able to toggle Group layer name visibility. For very large legends, I would recommend using Search in the contents pane.
1. Looking at the legend on the layout page, identify the Group layer name you want to remove. In this example I want to remove the group layer name "Fun Group".
2. "Golf Courses" is the first legend item under this group. It controls the Group layer name visibility. Since I have a lot of items I use Search to get to it quickly. Note: For best results search all, do not filter.
3. I open properties for the Golf Courses legend item and toggle the Group layer name visibility.
The Group Layer name "Fun Group" no longer displays.
We understand that this is not the best user experience and hope to improve this in a future release.
The mismatch between apparent legend size and it's bounding box
When you draw a box to insert a legend the selection bounding box represents the current potential space for the legend as defined by the box you created.
Legends can be dynamic. That is, content can automatically be removed or added to a legend. For example a legend with Layer visibility and New layer checked (see below) will adjust layers are turned on/off in the map or as new layers are added to the map.
As new layers become visible, or added to the map, their corresponding legend items are added to the legend. The legend will automatically grow until it reaches the limits of the bounding box you specified. When the legend has no more space for items you'll see the red dots indicating an overflow. You can then make the legend larger to fit all necessary items.
Problems with help search
Here are some links for Legend help that I think may help.
https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/layouts/add-a-legend.htm
https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/layouts/work-with-a-legend.htm
https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/layouts/work-with-legend-items.htm
Tom
Tom, thank you for your time, you try it really hard to give any possible help here, I appreciate it very much.
I have my hard time (should I say years?...) with ESRI platform and that funny transition to ArcGIS Pro and I may be sounding kind of embittered from time to time, but I do understand that this is a problem because ESRI is such a slow moving, narcissistic, big system with lot of departments and rooms and corridors and it is all so hard to coordinate and get moving faster... still, I know there are at ESRI many people who want to help and most probably they understand themselves that it is not everything quite perfect at ESRI, but they cannot do much to change it. I am quite sure about that.
So, now back to your answers.
- I don't think I should report this bug, you said ESRI is already aware of it, so what would be the point of it? I would just make a mess in ticketing system with the same issue. I assume, when ESRI knows about a bug, they do work on it and I expect some solution soon.
- You showed really big legend, my friend!
I have just a small one, with three items and don't need no search to find out which is the top most. But, still, I don't have the possibility to change status of it (as you said, this legend item controls the Group layer visibility of others), this item also has just inactive check box! I have got no way to change that status anywhere, at least I haven't found it yet... So, all I can do is to wait for ESRI to solve this issue. Means, we are talking about six to eight years, judging on how long ESRI needed to implement Search and Replace in attribute table... 
Hopefully they didn't organise voting on this... - For example, I wonder what happened to legend styles we all know from ArcMap. It is easy there, you choose one style that suits you and voila, everything is fine, you can choose from styles with description, labels, group names, what ever. That was simple, I had no problems with it. Now I have to figure it out first how to do it and then I have got that bug.
- I keep asking myself, why on earth did ESRI THAT to legends? Oh yes, I haven't got "big picture" of ESRI visionars. Admittedly, I really haven't got it. You know, in old good ArcMap legends are also dynamic and as I add some layer, they appear in legend dinamically, so what is the difference in ArcGIS Pro? And in ArcMap legend also gets bigger as it gets items added. So why the heck I would need this unintuitive, unusefull, ununderstandable, unnecessery grip frame around legend? I don't get it.
- All these questions, all these efforts of you, me and all of us could be avoided, if ESRI had some usable, practically and good accessible help (online or not), where all this new points of view, changes, differences and approaches would be clear and thoroughly explained! Why are they not? Why is online help so unusable? Why they don't explain this new concept of grip frame of legend there, where they write about legends anyway? No, I have to write tens of geonet posts, google around, ask everybody like an crazy, waste your time, waste my time, try myself to find out what the heck is new with legends. Is that really good concept ESRI? Do I see it not correct? That is so annoying.
- Last but not least, it would be so nice when this editor had a spell checker... For me as not native english speaker it is hard to write without spell checker, I am sometime not sure about correct word spelling. And I would like to write correct english as far as it is possible to me.
Unfortunately, I got again in my frustrated mode... sorry for that, I didn't want to bother you with it.
Thank you again Tom for your time!
Cheers.
