Latest Contributions by DavidGray1

Hello Community;   After a month of tinkering on and off with this issue, I still haven't found a solution. Import symbology is supposed to work, but just doesn't and others have said it appears I have done everything right and that my example is not all too complicated.  Any further thoughts on this vexing issue?    Thanks;   Dave ... View more

Hi Ronald;  A new day and new energy. So what I did was test your recommended method on a second lake I was in the middle of creating and hadn't made the islands yet. Created a new, different feature layer called islands and drew the islands. (There are significantly less islands in Lake Mohave than there is in Lake Mead). This worked nicely. And then just turn off islands. I can now see that when the large lake outline and the island outlines were on the same layer, there was actually two island outline polygons. Not sure why changing the line width didn't work on all of them, but something is off there. And working with these input/output features on separate layers eliminates that. I will consider this as a solution. It is a nice fix and further reinforces a general lesson I have learned that it usually pays to create in catalog numerous different feature layers for different topics. It may seem redundant and cantankerous at times, but it certainly provides/retains control over the features. So now it leaves me with a separate question I have had for awhile. Is there a way to copy a feature from a row in an attribute table to another layer attribute table? Without creating/sharing to yet another file in a folder?  Thanks!   Dave ... View more

Thanks Ronald;   My method so far has been to create the larger polygon of a body of water (Lake Mead) and then draw polygons for the various islands that are out there. Each feature is on the same layer to make the input and target selections work. And then with all editable selections box turned off, Divide/Clip the interior island polygon out of the interior of the larger lake polygon. This creates an interior island polygon that is part of the larger lake polygon feature and the row it is on. Then delete the original island polygon feature that is on a separate row in the attribute table. This works nicely and the island topo pops through the hole. But I have tried to reduce the width of the line outline for the larger polygon and it changes the large outline polygon line width but not the contained smaller island polygon line width. That is my current problem.   And, yep, am burned out, gotta sleep on it.    Dave ... View more

Hi Linda;  The issue remains a puzzle. I redid everything including the export of the source layer. The attached screen capture shows the setup of the Import Symbology menu. On the left hand side in the contents pane, nothing changes. I am trying to get the target layer on one map take on the same linetype and size settings as the source layer from another map in the same project. And the symbology just doesn't change to that of the source.    ??????       Dave ... View more

Hi Linda; Thanks for the reply. I just can't find how to make this work. The input layer is the desired exported .lyrx file. The Symbology layer is the target layer that I wish to have adopt the same symbology as the input file. Type is Value Field as that is the only choice that makes any sense out of the selections. Source Field and Target Field are the same Name in both layers. Ranges by data is set to Maintain Ranges.  But I have not set any ranges on these layers. And nothing changes. The Run does complete successfully going by the resultant message. View details provides little information except how long it took. One second. Is there something required when exporting layer as shared?    Puzzled.    Dave    ... View more

Hi Linda;   I found this solution to the same question I had.  However, after specifying the FROM and TO layers successfully (after exporting FROM to a lyrx file), nothing happened. Nothing changed. Are there additional settings necessary?    Dave ... View more

No solution. ... View more

Hi Dan;   I gave this a go and turned history and toolboxes off.   No change.  Thanks;   Dave ... View more

Thanks for some input JonahLay;    I checked and all maps have at least 1 layer, usually quite a few.  Dave ... View more

I am hoping someone will have some suggestions on this topic!!??!! ... View more

I looked into exporting the Project as a Map Package. The Help instructions say to go to the Share tab under Project and click on New Map Package. And following the tiny little hieroglyphic icon that looks like the Project icon in the Package Group.........there is nothing called New Map Package. Clicking on Project in that Package Group under Share takes me to the same old Pane for Package Project where I get the cryptic layer error messages..  So...?????    Dave ... View more

Options used include Toolboxes and History items, but not share outside of organization. And set to save package to file as a ppkx. Also had something like 13 attachments that are jpg's. I'll look into a Map Package.   Thanks; Dave ... View more

Hi Kory; Thanks much for this suggestion. I have taken a look at the page link and want to give it a go, but just haven't had time yet. Soon. I have ArcGIS Pro and am glad I went through the cartography MOOC a while back. I will report back with results - hopefully to say a solution has been found. Sounds favorable.   Thanks; Dave ... View more