idea ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

WillyLynch2 — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 22:04:55 GMT

In ArcGIS Pro, individual symbol and style elements can be saved but there does not appear to be a tool for bulk "exporting" or "saving" of symbols. See help- https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/mapping/layer-properties/save-symbols-in-styles.htm

ArcMap has the “Export Map Styles” via customize > tools > export map style. This is very handy for exporting all symbols in a layer or map to a new style.

Something similar in ArcGIS Pro would be good.

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

Anonymous User — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:24:30 GMT

I completely agree. It is very time consuming to save each symbol to a style one at a time!!

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

Anonymous User — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:29:30 GMT

I ran into this issue recently and logged ENH-000136480 for ArcGIS Pro which addresses getting this same tool into ArcGIS Pro.

I was able to find a current workaround for us:

In ArcMap Go to Customize > Customize Mode > Commands > Search for 'Export Map Styles' and add it to the active toolbar. Save the style as a .style format.
Open ArcGIS Pro and add this .style into the Styles folder. Create a new .stylx in ArcGIS Pro.
Right click ArcMap's .style > Manage > Ctrl - A to select all symbols and right-click Copy.
Right click ArcGIS Pro's .stylx > Manage > right click and Paste. This brings all the symbology into ArcGIS Pro's .stylx format.

Its a lengthy workaround but does work!

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

WillyLynch2 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:14:48 GMT

ENH-000136480 for ArcGIS Pro ? I am not able to see or read about this. I have reached out to Esri Support to link me to it. The workaround above goes from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro... I need the symbols that are in ArcGIS Pro that were never in a STYLE file.

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

Anonymous User — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:47:23 GMT

Hey @WillyLynch2 I just checked in on the enhancement internally and it is listed as 'In Product Plan' I am not able to say a timeline for implementation but there are a number of other cases attached and development is aware. So hopefully this export STYLE feature does come out soon for ArcGIS Pro

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

RoseF — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 20:05:43 GMT

This capability is of significant importance to our workflow. As we try to move away from ArcMap over to Pro entirely, it would be good to not have to go back to ArcMap for these types of procedures.

@Anonymous User Where can I find updates from ESRI on schedule?

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

Waffle_House — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 01:30:50 GMT

@RoseF I don't think we can see a detailed breakdown but they do post roadmaps like the following:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-documents/arcgis-pro-roadmap-december-2021/ta-p/1124588

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

RoseF — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 13:46:45 GMT

@Waffle_House Yes, thanks for the link; I hadn't seen the "Export Style" tool on the Roadmap so I was hoping an insider would have more details. Anyways, I am hopeful to see this functionality added soon. I'll also have to see if there's a work-around. Thanks again!

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

MelissaBrooks — Wed, 04 May 2022 20:46:36 GMT

I was just looking for this tool, was surprised to find it wasn't there already. Was there any link/confirmation on the roadmap inclusion? Thanks

@Anonymous User could you post a link to the enhancement ENH-000136480 .. I couldn't spot it on the Esri support site.

Cheers

Melissa

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

RoseF — Wed, 04 May 2022 21:24:07 GMT

@MelissaBrooks I think it is/was an internal bug report so I'm not sure if we can see it.

I was on the phone with our ESRI rep a couple weeks ago and he confirmed that there still isn't a way to do this in Pro. Definitely a surprise.

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

baohuachu3 — Mon, 23 May 2022 02:02:47 GMT

I would like ArcGIS Pro to support export styles to json files. Then it can be used in development enviroment.

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

KoryKramer — Mon, 23 May 2022 13:04:59 GMT

@baohuachu3 it sounds like you should add kudos to https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/human-git-readable-aprx-stylx-formats/idi-p/931760

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

RoseF — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 21:21:16 GMT

Hey all, during the Plenary lunch break today, the product managers issued a poll to all watchers to see what was the most important thing for us they could work on. In the Pro section, the ability to BULK EXPORT SYMBOLS was the user-ranked number one priority with 36% support. It came as a surprise to the Esri staff so spread the word about this thread and have people add kudos.

The good news is that they might get to this sooner rather than later!!

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

MattWilkie1 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 21:37:34 GMT

Round trip export-import please 😉

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

RoseF — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 22:06:39 GMT

@MattWilkie1 YES!!!

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

WetlandMan — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 18:00:16 GMT

I'd request the ability to export and share style layers like one used to do in ArcMap. When managing client generated maps its much much less time consuming to send them a .GDB which contains the style layers, than it is to provide markups and provide the physical symbology. I have not found a way to do this in Pro so that would be quite helpful.

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

GIS_MJ — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 15:11:55 GMT

I'm here to support this idea. I was surprised to see this ability doesn't exist yet in PRO.

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

KoryKramer — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 15:22:16 GMT

Thank you for the comment @GIS_MJ I took a look and it doesn't appear that you added your kudos to the idea. While comments are important, kudos (the number of votes) that an idea receives is one of the primary pieces of data that we use to determine traction and trends as we monitor idea activity over time.

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Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols - Status changed to: Under Consideration

KoryKramer — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:09:12 GMT

Re: ArcGIS Pro "Export Map Styles" for bulk saving of symbols

RoseF — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 13:31:12 GMT

@KoryKramer that's great news! I have to say I was excited when I saw it come up in discussions on Day 1 of the UC. Thanks Esri, for listening!