idea When recoloring from Contents pane, only change color of the symbol layer indicated in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

When recoloring from Contents pane, only change color of the symbol layer indicated

wayfaringrob — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 20:39:15 GMT

If you right click a multilayer symbol from the TOC, the palette shows the color of your (top?) layer selected:

Note that the white line has a black casing in a lower symbol layer. I would expect that choosing a new color would only change the color of the top layer, as indicated by the selection square around the white color. However, this is not the case. It changes the color of all symbol layers.

It would be much more useful and intuitive if changing the color from here just changed the color of the symbol layer indicated by the selection square. Rarely would I would want to change all of my unique symbol layers to the same color.

Even better would be if you could specify which symbol layer you wanted to change when right clicking, or set in symbology which layer you consider your 'key' layer.

Re: When recoloring from Contents pane, only change color of the symbol layer indicated - Status changed to: Already Offered

CraigWilliams — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 21:19:09 GMT

Top level color changes apply to the unlocked symbol layers of the symbol. There's a bug here in that the color picker shouldn't be showing a single color in your case because you have more than one color across all unlocked layers.

For more on color locking see the Color locking section of this topic: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/layer-properties/modify-symbols.htm

Re: When recoloring from Contents pane, only change color of the symbol layer indicated

wayfaringrob — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:59:55 GMT

@CraigWilliams I learn something new every day. Thanks!