idea Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

MarianneFarretta — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:13:55 GMT

Please include an on/off visibility checkbox in the Layer Properties Symbology tab which will allow you to control which values in a single layer are drawn. This is currently only possible with multiple occurences of the same feature class added to the TOC, which quickly becomes overwhelming. Thank you!

Re: Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

JurajKrumpolec — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:15:46 GMT

Switching on and off Symbology Categories

Re: Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

WillyLynch — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:57:13 GMT

This is on the LIST of ideas from the mining and petroleum industry- "Turn on and off features in legend like TOC"

Re: Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

MichaelHogan — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:36:07 GMT

From Esri: This enhancement request has come from several sources. It is being considered for a future release, and something Esri wants to try and get into the software, we just aren't sure when it could be implemented at this point.

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Re: Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

Anonymous User — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:26:22 GMT

Pug Idea List 2014: David Watkins, ESRI Lead

Currently under consideration for ArcGIS Pro

Make it easier to toggle different symbols on or off in the layer properties

MarkVolz — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:18:53 GMT

Hello,

We can set up several types of symbols in Layer Properties -> Symbology -> catogories. I noticed there is checkbox to turn all other values on or off quickly. Please consider adding a checkbox by all of the symbols so that we can easily turn "County Roads" on or off with a click of a button while keeping the other types of roads on.

Thanks

Symbol Filter

PaulAdamson — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:16:48 GMT

For a given layer and symbol set, create a tool to allow each symbol to be selected and only have matching records symbolised.

Similar to the Data-driven pages but for Symbols.

Re: Make it easier to toggle different symbols on or off in the layer properties

GraemeBrowning — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 07:34:16 GMT

Apparently this is very easy to do in QGIS: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/248427/quickly-toggling-on-of-visibility-of-certain-symbology-on-arcgis-pro

Re: Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

Anonymous User — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:39:28 GMT

It would be really usefull!

But under consideration since 2014...

Edit : any news for this idea?

Re: Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

AngeloTaylor2 — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:01:32 GMT

Hi, All -

Nearly 9 years since this was first submitted!?! I submitted a very similar idea 1 month ago regarding ArcGIS PRO... you know... the future!

Comment on 'LOOK AT ME!!!  PRO: Quick Filter Layer by SymbolClass'

Please go there and UPvote!!! Since they're not really moving on this, maybe PRO will provide more visible opportunity for ESRI to demonstrate responsiveness and attending to the voice of the customer. (fingers crossed)

Re: Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

KyleBolin1 — Fri, 29 May 2020 14:20:00 GMT

This would be Fantastic! Pro makes using def queries a bit easier since you can turn them off without deleting the query entirely. Still, being able to toggle visibility like on the table of contents would save a lot of clicks drilling into menus and changing query values. Sure, five or six clicks of the mouse doesn't sound like a lot, but it definitely feels like it when you are in a meeting using Pro as the conversation tool to quickly show data in ways you couldn't anticipate ahead of time.

Is it possible to be able to toggle a feature class on and off by attribute?

Mark_Hotz — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 21:19:50 GMT

I'm using ArcGIS Pro 2.7, and have a request from a user that has me stumped.

I have a single feature class that has been symbolized by unique attribute values. However, the user wants to be able to toggle the individual attributes on and off, much like they do when they toggle a feature class on and off.

Is it possible to be able to toggle the symbolized items on and off in ArcGIS Pro? The only way I seem to be able to do this would be to enter separate feature classes in our geodatabase for each feature, but in this example that would mean adding 28 separate feature classes just so the user can turn them on and off during a discussion/meeting.

I'm just curious if ArcGIS Pro will allow me to set up a feature class to function this way.

Thanks.

Re: Is it possible to be able to toggle a feature class on and off by attribute?

DavidPike — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 21:31:26 GMT

This one's been kicking around since ArcMap, and I'm not aware of any movement on it despite how useful it would be. I might suggest scripting it by grabbing all the distinct attribute names then producing new layers in the aprx based on those, or get the user to make them manually!

Or hopefully someone has already done it and it's oven ready.

Re: Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

Mark_Hotz — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 21:47:37 GMT

I think I'm more impressed that this question has been asked several times over the past 9 years 😆.

Thanks for the responses though...at least I know I'm not asking for something silly 🤔

Re: Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

KoryKramer — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 21:52:27 GMT

@Mark_Hotz I merged your idea with this existing idea that requests the functionality you're looking for.

For now, if the goal is to be able to just show 1 symbol class with all others off, and then switch to another, I'd recommend setting up a definition query for each. Then the Definition Query picker can be used to filter and show just a particular symbol class.

Doc: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/layer-properties/definition-query.htm

Example:

Re: Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

Mark_Hotz — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:24:02 GMT

Kory:

Thanks for the suggestion...this helps. I thought about a definition query but was wondering how much that might slow down the process when one creates dozens of them from one feature class. So at least I now know I'm not missing something major 😆. However, it's not like my data is a huge drain on the system either, so I'm sure definition queries will work well. I was just hoping that there would have been a built-in function (of which I was not yet aware) that would be able to handle this in ArcGIS Pro 😁. Perhaps one day I guess.

The only other alternative would be for me to add dozens of separate feature classes in our enterprise geodatabase, but that just causes a lot of unnecessary clutter...so I think the definition query is probably the best way to go.

Thanks for clarifying though...it's always great to get the opinions from others who have more experience with this than I do.

Re: Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

KoryKramer — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:26:32 GMT

No worries, Mark. Make sure to up vote this idea by giving kudos if you haven't already.

Cheers

Re: Toggle visibility for individual Categories on Symbology tab

SeanZhang — Mon, 10 May 2021 21:50:02 GMT

still waiting this feature...🤔 wondering why it takes so long. @KoryKramer Next month will be 10 years since the original post. 🙄

Make sublayers from symbology

notebooker — Mon, 16 May 2022 13:10:11 GMT

We need ability to make sublayers from already symbolized one layer in ArcGIS Pro (e.g. "Unique Values"). Users usually like to have data separated (able to turn On/Off symbolized layers) - especially if the layer is published to webmap. The workaround is to make with it the Definition query and then Copy layer, remove others values in symbology, name the copied layer after the symbol and so on, but only if symbology has a tolerable amount of symbology parts. If we need split like this layer with 15 or 30 types of symbology it is painful process. This button/tools would speed up our work with Pro. In general, we think that this functionality would mainly improve the ArcGIS software.

The tool can be named "Make sublayers from symbology".

Re: Make sublayers from symbology - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

TanuHoque — Mon, 16 May 2022 20:18:50 GMT

@notebooker
The main purpose of a Subtype Group layer is not what you have, but you might want it a try to see it that works as a workaround.
https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/layer-properties/subtype-layers.htm