idea Add cancel button to generate unique values dialog when defining symbology in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Add cancel button to generate unique values dialog when defining symbology

DuncanHornby — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:50:37 GMT

Please add a cancel button to the generate unique values dialog when defining unique symbology. When accessing very large datasets (e.g. polyline dataset with 40+ million lines) this takes an unacceptable amount of time and I want to be able to cancel out of it, currently the only option is to crash out of ArcPro!

Re: Add cancel button to generate unique values dialog when defining symbology - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

KoryKramer — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:25:58 GMT

@DuncanHornby and others who voted for this idea, are you still seeing that there is not a cancel button when generating unique values? I just tried this again in Pro 2.7.3 on SQL Server enterprise geodatabase feature class and see a Cancel button:

I've also tried with shapefiles and file gdb and I get the Cancel button. It may be that I need to work with a larger dataset to see the behavior, since you noted you were working with 40+ million features.

Just wondering if you're still not seeing the Cancel button in later versions and if not, if there are any additional details you can offer about the data source.

Thanks!

Re: Add cancel button to generate unique values dialog when defining symbology

DuncanHornby — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 21:35:35 GMT

@KoryKramer , will confirm next week, am on holiday at the moment.

Re: Add cancel button to generate unique values dialog when defining symbology

DuncanHornby — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 10:35:31 GMT

@KoryKramer No same issue as before, see screenshot below. The only difference I can tell is that my data is in a file geodatabase and not sql server?

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Re: Add cancel button to generate unique values dialog when defining symbology

KoryKramer — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 12:37:14 GMT

Thanks, @DuncanHornby

How long does the 'Querying the database' message show, and does yours eventually switch to

the 'more than 100 unique values were found' message?

Is the 'descriptiveterm' field indexed?

Re: Add cancel button to generate unique values dialog when defining symbology

DuncanHornby — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 14:46:34 GMT

@KoryKramer I have so far lost the will to live with these very large datasets, so I never see the "more that 100 unique..." message as I've usually crashed out of ArcPro. With smaller datasets that have more than 100 unique values I definitely get that message box.

The field descriptiveterm is indexed.

Out of interest it took about 8 minutes to get to that more than 100 dialog on a dataset with 1.2 million rows

Re: Add cancel button to generate unique values dialog when defining symbology - Status changed to: Open

KoryKramer — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 14:58:59 GMT

OK. Thanks for the additional information, Duncan.

Re: Add cancel button to generate unique values dialog when defining symbology

wayfaringrob — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 21:30:45 GMT

Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces, can't deny it, can't pretend...

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Re: Add cancel button to generate unique values dialog when defining symbology - Status changed to: Under Consideration

SSWoodward — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 22:32:51 GMT

Re: Add cancel button to generate unique values dialog when defining symbology

ChrisSnyder — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:47:41 GMT

One of the last things I truly can't stand about Pro... Please add (bring back) the Cancel button!

Re: Add cancel button to generate unique values dialog when defining symbology

Kevin_Andras — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:21:40 GMT

Same thing here. I accidentally clicked "Add All Values" while trying to display unique values. There are over 400 million polygons in this layer. After half an hour it said "more than 100 unique values were found..." At that point I have the option to say No. Even after I say "No" it shows "Generating unique values...." and the cancel button is disabled. This part takes about 20 minutes, and it finishes with no unique values listed. Then I made the mistake of trying to add a single value (since there are only 2 and I know what they are) and it did the same thing - took me another 50 minutes before I could do anything else.

Please add an effective cancel button!

It would also be helpful to be able to add a unique value without searching through the entire database.