idea Ability to undo more ArcMap changes in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Ability to undo more ArcMap changes

AndrewRudin — Wed, 01 May 2024 00:34:39 GMT

Allow users to undo changes to layers, such as symbology or label changes usin ghe undo/redo buttons. Right now these tools only seems to work for undoing removal of layers from the table of contents, or actual edits to data. I think you can undo updates to page layout elements too, but only certain things like moving elements around or removing them. I think currently if you change all the internal properties of a rather complex legend element, you can't undo the changes

Re: Ability to undo more ArcMap changes

JurajKrumpolec — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:47:31 GMT

Much needed fix to meet professional software standards. Besides Layer Properties the Undo/Redo functionality is required for:

Dataframe Properties
Map Legend (undo is not working properly with complex legends)
Page and Print Setup
Graphic or text elements while drawing or editing
Selection, Select By Attributes, Select By Location
Style Manager
ArcToolbox Tools (cache history like Adobe Photoshop)

Re: Ability to undo more ArcMap changes

JoeRutkowski — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:19:17 GMT

Wish I could promote this multiple times.

Re: Ability to undo more ArcMap changes

LaurenWinkler2 — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 17:28:34 GMT

Once updating symbology or label properties, or once repathing a data source, the change cannot be undone.

Mistakenly repathing a feature to another data type (e.g. a polygon to a line) loses all of the symbology associated with the original feature. The Undo button doesn't work, so the only solution is to close the MXD without saving and reopen it.

This is a huge performance loss that needs to be addressed.

Re: Ability to undo more ArcMap changes - Status changed to: Closed

CraigWilliams — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:59:22 GMT

ArcGIS Desktop is in mature support and will be retired March 1, 2026 so we won’t be considering this idea. We recommend that you migrate to ArcGIS Pro, our fully supported desktop GIS application. See Migrate from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro for more information. Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas. We truly appreciate your contributions to continuously improving the software to help you do your work and look forward to what ideas you have for ArcGIS Pro.

This particular request was a focus of development work in the ArcGIS Pro application framework and ArcGIS Pro has finer grained undoable operations.