Table Attribute Dynamic text sorted as per the Symbology Order and legend, specifically I'd like to be able to show the area of a polygon besides its legend patch dynamically. Currently the attributes look to be sorted by objectid.
I'm not sure what you are looking for here. You can add a different text element for each layer and place it near the legend. Are you trying to add them all as a single piece of text?
See picture. In the layout, the legend item is the Timber Type. For a given area, there can be one or several Timber types. The legend is set to only show what is visible in the map. Currently for the Type Area, I have to manually type in the associated area. I would like to use dynamic text for this and sort the dynamic text for the Type Area to be the same as the Legend. I can use a function with Shape_Area to convert to hectares and round to one digit with Table Attribute Dynamic text, but it is not sorted the same.
When using Dynamic Text > Table Attribute, I would like to control the order of items using an attribute field of my choice. Currently, it is limited to ordering by the OBJECTID, which I can't easily modify.
I am using a geodatabase table to create a geologic map legend.
My use case is road or bikeway types and total lengths within cities. I have a map series of all the cities in a county, and instead of showing both a legend and a separate dynamic table of types and miles within each city, I'd like to combine them to show a symbol patch, a type/class description and the total miles within the map series shape.
This Idea has been implemented in ArcGIS Pro 3.2.
Please see the What's New documentation for more new features in Pro 3.2.
Thank you for bringing this functionality to ArcGIS Pro!
@AubriOtis is there a limit on what type of field can be used to Sort? My dialog is not offering any field names in that dropdown.
Also, it's worth noting that when using an SDE, the order seems to be based on GlobalID, and that is constantly changing as data gets updated... so the order of items in my dynamic text is now changing all the time.
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@CRose that's interesting. It can sort by text or numeric fields. Blobs don't work, and I don't think date fields are supported (but I may be misremembering). What other field types are in your table? How many fields are you expecting to see?
I had created a "Short" (integer) type field called "LegendOrder" to use for this purpose, but it doesn't appear in the sort dropdown. None of my twelve text fields appear in the Sort dropdown either.
Ah, I see what's happening. Your field is an expression. When you are returning an expression instead of a field the values might not match the values in the table. The potential for mismatch means a field can't be used. You can sort by the expression, but that's all.
Ah, ok.
I expected the Sort option to be independent of the "Field" that is displayed.
My field expression in this case is just a concatenation of my "delimiterBefore" (usually but not always a new line) and my "legendText" attributes. I this case I may be able to restructure my table rows to use the delimiter in this dialogue instead.
I do think it's pretty confusing for the default sort order to be based on the GlobalID, which changes every time a row is edited.
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