idea ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

RobertGraham — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:02:52 GMT

When selecting points you must be exactly on top of feature to identify. The point tolerance is not adjustable for identify. The snapping tolerances are adjustable but not the identify feature from the Explore tool. Please make the Explore tool tolerance adjustable.

This is reported at version 2.3.2

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

KoryKramer — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:16:16 GMT

You could hold Ctrl + and drag a box with the Explore tool :

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

ThomasColson — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:43:26 GMT

Kory Kramer‌ I vaguely recall showing this to you during a screen share during our ID tool discussion(s). The issue here is in ArcMap, there is some sort of "snapping" going on when clicking the ID tool "near" a point. The Pro identify tool is a regression in functionality and useability:

Now requires two hands to execute
Introduces more wrist movement(s)
Introduces more time needed to execute
Not exactly smooth on laptops with nothing but a touchpad, tablets, or touch screens.
The drag-the-box method requires more precision when points are tightly clustered

So let's put the dragging boxes aside:

As the OP points out, getting the mouse cursor EXACTLY on the point also

Introduces more wrist movement(s)
Introduces more time needed to execute
Not exactly smooth on laptops with nothing but a touchpad, tablets, or touch screen

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

KoryKramer — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:37:33 GMT

Hey Tom. My suggestion to drag a box was just to provide a way to do it today. At the time that the idea was reviewed, I tagged it with arcmap equivalency as was pointed out by the OP and you.

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

PRuss — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:41:40 GMT

This is also a major issue in WAB and AGOL.

Is there any time frame when Esri will add click tolerance options to Pro, WAB, and AGOL?

This seems like a pretty basic option to have. ArcMap desktop had it for decades with Selection > Selection Options > Selection tolerance: __ pixels.

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

MarcelSt-Germain — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 19:35:13 GMT

The problem with identify in pro is that all the feature of ArcMap are missing. In ArcMap it's easy to make interrogation with many layers of data. You could choose the top, selected, visible, all layer.

I'm stick to use ArcMap in project because mostly but not exclusively due to that identify not as easy to use.

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

KoryKramer — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 20:13:29 GMT

Hi Marcel,

In Pro you can set the Explore tool to act on Topmost, Visible, Selectable, Selected in Contents, or have no Pop-ups at all.

Is that what you were referring to when comparing to ArcMap's Identify tool?

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

MarcelSt-Germain — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 20:52:15 GMT

Yes, I lost it. For me exploration was to move around. Hard to follow everything since name changes.

Just try it, work fine but, take forever (minutes) to querying a small area with 14 layers. Stick with ArcMap to do identify for now until the speed problem could be resolved.

The first try was with default setting (topmost) but give me all layers, like visible layers, not only the top one (rubber band box for the querry). Try with a layer not visible and then, the uncheck layer was not there's fine there.

By the way, could we change the default topmost for visible. Always awkward to stick with the top layer since its use is very, very limited. We need to know what's on the map, not by default the top even if with the bug, that’s fine for me.

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

tempStephenRhea_NV5 — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:24:27 GMT

I would love to see this setting as well! As a third-party developer, we have a custom selection tool that does a spatial query based on the clicked point. If a user's search tolerance isn't high enough, they have to be nearly pixel-perfect to select a feature, depending on their scale. The only workaround we've found is to programmatically increase the search tolerance and re-run the spatial query up to a pre-determined maximum value. For example, we may start with the default of 3, then keep increasing by 5 until we've tried 4 more queries; if nothing is found after that, we consider nothing to be selected and the user must try again.

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

LeeBrannon1 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:03:23 GMT

Count me in! Please make the Explore tool tolerance adjustable!!

Sure, using the Ctrl key does work, but it is not nearly as friendly and fluid as having a larger tolerance available for Identify.

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

LyonMNGIS — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:38:53 GMT

Has this been fixed yet?

Holding the CTRL button is becomes difficult when we need to identify a few hundred lines. We could try several times to click on the actual line, but it takes some luck.

Thanks

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance - Status changed to: In Product Plan

KoryKramer — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 15:24:32 GMT

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance - Status changed to: Implemented

KoryKramer — Fri, 10 May 2024 15:13:38 GMT

This is implemented in ArcGIS Pro 3.3. See Your Ideas in ArcGIS Pro 3.3 for a full list of all user ideas you can look forward to! And be sure to check out the release blog and what’s new help topic and video to learn more about all the new features and functionality in the release.

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

JulioGarrido — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:20:54 GMT

All,

I have verified this implementation. We can now change the selection tolerance of the Explore/Identify tool. It can be changed through Project - Options - Selection. Scroll down to the bottom of the selection options and place a check next to Buffer the clicked location to include features within xy pixels. (change xy to your desired value).

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

CharlesFinley2 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:51:29 GMT

i am so glad this has been implemented, thanks ESRI!!

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

KoryKramer — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:56:01 GMT

Glad it helps @CharlesFinley2 !

Re: ArcGIS PRO Cursor Identify tolerance

JulianWard1 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:21:27 GMT

Hi @KoryKramer ,

This is a great implementation and solved a problem for me, however I think I just found a flaw / bug in it. It doesn't seem to be honoured when sourcing the data from a web service. While I can click 'off from' a point using a direct connection to a featureclass and still have it returned, I can't do the same on the same dataset sourced through a ESRI REST endpoint (MapService). Whilst a MapService has a 'Tolerance' parameter that I assumed the buffer would use, I find myself having to still click exactly on the feature to have it return the identify result.

I'll submit this as a support / bug request, but it may be something that needs looking into as sourcing data from web services becomes more prominent,

Cheers