Latest Contributions by DanPayne1

I should have been doing a better job of documenting the annoying lack of features in ArcGIS Pro from those available in ArcMap, but I honestly didn't expect there to be so many.  It's been about a couple months since I went back to using ArcMap as my primary GIS platform instead of ArcGIS Pro, so I'm having a bit of trouble trying to come up with a comprehensive list of the shortfalls with ArcGIS Pro.  Some of the issues I do remember are: - There is no Copy Parallel command.  You have to use the Trace command instead, and ArcGIS Pro tends to crash a lot when I'm using the Trace command. - You can no longer perform statistics on-the-fly for a field in a table.  In ArcMap I am able to right click on any column and the Statistics tool would pop up a window with the basic statistics without having to go through the process of creating a table that I have to delete later. - Viewing and using Tables is a royal pain in ArcGIS Pro.  You can make a field wider in order to view lengthy text, but it will go right back to the default width if you scroll around in the table at all.  Whenever you change the width of a field, the table will automatically scroll back to the top.  There are also times when I have added data to a field, clicked the save button, and then the next time I view the table, that data I just entered is gone. - I like to customize the Editor Tools Gallery by dragging other tools onto it from the Modify Features list, but the next time I open the Project, the tools I added are gone, and I have to drag them all over again. - In ArcMap I can easily customize a Legend that I have added to a map, but in ArcGIS Pro it is an absolute nightmare to try to customize a Legend.  It takes way too many steps and is in no way an easy process. - The Attribute Transfer function in ArcMap is NOT available in ArcGIS Pro.  This is one of the tools I use the most in ArcMap. - There is no Draw toolbar in ArcGIS Pro.  I love the ability in ArcMap to add graphics in either Data View or Map View, but it is lacking in ArcGIS Pro. - There is no Fillet Tool in ArcGIS Pro.   I know there is a lot more functionality missing in ArcGIS Pro from what is available in ArcMap, but at the moment I can’t remember all of the missing pieces.  From what I have experienced using ArcGS Pro, it looks as though they are putting all their effort into making a product that is geared more toward the user that performs GIS functions with existing data, while not putting much effort at all into meeting the needs of the user that actually creates and edits that data. ... View more

Since ArcGIS Pro is being forced upon ESRI users, I have been learning to use it, and have been trying really really hard over that past several months to like it and to make it my go-to software.  While some of its features and capabilities are better than those in ArcMap, I eventually got tired of it crashing on me when trying to perform certain functions, and I got tired of the lack of functionality is has in many areas compared with ArcMap. The lack of compatibility between annotation features classes in ArcGIS Pro vs. ArcMap is a significant problem for me, as is the unfriendliness of working in attribute tables (data entered in a table is often not saved, even though I click the save button, columns keep reverting back to being too narrow after I resize them, among other issues).  Another significant problem for me is the lack of many of the drawing tools that are available in ArcMap.  It's hard to justify switching to ArcGIS Pro when it takes me twice as long to do that same work I can do using ArcMap, due to the lack of important tools. In my opinion, ArcGIS Pro was released way before it was ready for the general GIS population to start using it with any amount of success.  I've weathered many significant changes in the ESRI software over the years, but there has never been the loss of functionality in previous makeovers that there is with this one.  I have never been as disappointed and frustrated with a software "upgrade" as I have been with ArcGIS Pro.  I'm hoping that ArcMap is not retired unless and until massive improvements have been made to ArcGIS Pro. The one place ArcGIS Pro shines is in creating and sharing maps for use with ArcGIS Online.  Unfortunately that only is a small part of the functionality I need from GIS software. ... View more