idea Quickly View Feature Layer by Itself via Pop-up Window in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Quickly View Feature Layer by Itself via Pop-up Window

Starc_Industries — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:15:40 GMT

Quickly view a feature layer by right-clicking on it within the Contents pane and choosing "Display layer (by itself) in pop-up window". This would be more efficient than current methods:

(1) Hold the <CTRL> key and click the visibility tick box of a layer in the Contents pane. This will turn all layer visibility off. Then tick the visibility tick box of the layer you want to display. Issue with this method: after viewing the layer in isolation, the user then needs to "undo" recent visibility toggling actions to restore the visibility of the previously displayed layers. Not efficient.

(2) Add the layer to a new map, which would likely need deletion (to reduce clutter) after viewing. Not efficient.

Re: Quickly View Feature Layer by Itself via Pop-up Window

RandyCasey — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:23:58 GMT

This was actually a feature in ArcCatalog. The one drawback was that when you viewed the layer, it would lock the GDB. It was still a handy utility though and I would love to see it brought into Pro.

Re: Quickly View Feature Layer by Itself via Pop-up Window - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

KoryKramer — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:40:07 GMT

@Starc_Industries

Based on what you described here "(1) Hold the <CTRL> key and click the visibility tick box of a layer in the Contents pane. This will turn all layer visibility off. Then tick the visibility tick box of the layer you want to display. Issue with this method: after viewing the layer in isolation, the user then needs to "undo" recent visibility toggling actions to restore the visibility of the previously displayed layers. Not efficient."

Couldn't you just hold Alt + click on the layer you want to "preview in isolation"?

Below I'm just using Alt + click to show the layer in isolation and when I'm done, Ctrl+Z. This feels really efficient to me, but I suppose it depends on what you're trying to accomplish with the layer "preview".

Is there a reason you need this is a pop-up window? Can you provide some more context about your workflow so that we can better understand?

Thank you

Re: Quickly View Feature Layer by Itself via Pop-up Window

Starc_Industries — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:28:18 GMT

That works perfectly, @KoryKramer. I had no idea that this was an option. Thanks!! 😀

Re: Quickly View Feature Layer by Itself via Pop-up Window - Status changed to: Already Offered

KoryKramer — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:42:03 GMT

Thanks for confirming @Starc_Industries Glad that works for you!