idea Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

KarlTian — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 02:08:45 GMT

Just to avoid this:

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

KoryKramer — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:36:22 GMT

Karl Tian‌ this looks like it is more of a bug than an idea. Are you able to describe what you do/provide reproducible steps that lead to columns collapsing like that?

Thank you!

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

KarlTian — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 06:27:32 GMT

Actually I did nothing, this very offen happens whenever you open an attribute table with large dataset and many columns.

And even with small dataset, it usually appears with width of the title, not content.

Thank you!

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

MatthewHall — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:25:53 GMT

I'm having the same issue. I'm on ArcGIS Pro 2.4.1, so it's possible this has been patch since.

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

ScottWhite — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:30:13 GMT

Hi.

I also see field width problems in Pro (2.4.3), but it only seems to happen when I work in a Pro window that is not maximized to fit the entire screen. For example, the first screen capture below was from a Windows 10 half-screen-size Pro window. The acres2 values came from Calculate Geometry. Several other fields were compressed in width as well (a, C, a, S) in the half-screen view. The second screen capture was from a maximized Pro window. The acres_new values also came from Calculate Geometry, but this tool was run with the Pro window already maxed. As you can see, the original compressed fields including acres2 were retained even after I had maxed the Pro window. The values in the acres2 and acres_new fields should be identical.

It would be very helpful for Pro users to have some type of auto field width built in to the attribute tables, or at least a button to do this manually. This is especially true for new users who would likely assume the field widths are correct. Certainly no Pro users would expect that the field would appear to be truncated to the left.

- Scott White

Fort Lewis College

Dept. of Geosciences

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

TedHallum — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 01:12:23 GMT

I'm using ArcGIS Pro 2.5.2 - and this is still a problem with no apparent solution.

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

KoryKramer — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:14:41 GMT

Hi Ted - sorry that you're running into this frustrating behavior. I don't have a solution for you today, but there are a couple of column-resizing improvements coming in ArcGIS Pro 2.6 scheduled to be released towards the end of July.

This will at least allow one to quickly highlight all of those columns at once and double-click to expand them. In terms of the table getting into this state in the first place, that would be seen as a bug. Attribute tables in Pro will be getting an overhaul for the 2.7 release which will hopefully address this issue.

I hope that sharing this helps!

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

TedHallum — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:20:11 GMT

Kory,

Thank you for sharing about the pending improvements to the column sizing in attribute tables. What you demoed there in the animated GIF is exactly what I'd wanted to do while working on a project over the weekend - glad to see that it's in the works!

Appreciate the heads up!

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents - Status changed to: In Product Plan

KoryKramer — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 20:33:20 GMT

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents - Status changed to: Implemented

KoryKramer — Thu, 13 May 2021 21:57:05 GMT

This is fixed with the new table control in ArcGIS Pro 2.8.

See for all the other ideas you can expect to find when you're able to upgrade to 2.8!

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

GrantDickins_OX2 — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 23:24:57 GMT

Hi Kory. Can you please assist with how the ability to make fields open to the width of their content by default? I can't find any new 'table controls' and when I open any attribute table I still have to double click each field to get it to size to its content. Is this what has been implemented, and I just can't find it? I appreciate your help if possible. I'm using version 2.8.0.

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

KleinschmidtBrad — Thu, 26 May 2022 00:02:58 GMT

This doesn't seem to work for me either - any help to set this up would be appreciated. Shift clicking to select multiple attributes then double click to resize to contents works well, but to do this automatically would be great. Additionally, this resize process needs to be done multiple times when editing, as it seems any tool that deletes a feature (delete, split, merge etc) will 'reset' the attribute table and all of its column sizes. I'm using version 2.8.2

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

GrantDickins_OX2 — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 23:30:07 GMT

Hi @KleinschmidtBrad and @KoryKramer

I now have no issues with table sizing. I am on version 2.9.3 and I have just re-performed multiple table tests and edited various geometry data, with no behaviour that collapses columns, etc. I re-tried everything I can think of, including emulating my original issues and pre-collapsing tables, pre-collapsing/pre-expanding columns, then edited various features (lines, points, polys) to watch table behaviour. The result now is no columns 'reset' or do strange things when I edit data or set column widths, etc - they just stay the way I want (expect). For me the issue is resolved.

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

Joey_Lecky — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 03:32:55 GMT

I'm not sure what exactly was implemented at 2.8, but I'm on 3.0.3 and I still have all these issues with various actions causing field widths to resize all the time and am unable to get multiple fields to resize at once, as in the GIF that KoryKramer posted on ‎07-06-2020.

I think this idea should still be open and not marked as implemented. The initial idea was about the ability to auto-fit the width of all fields in a table to the field content by default.

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

KoryKramer — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:15:12 GMT

@Joey_Lecky There was a regression. See https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/restore-ability-in-arcgis-pro-to-resize-adjust-the/idi-p/1217114 and update to 3.1.1, the latest version, to see if it resolves the issue you're seeing.

Thanks

Re: Auto adjust attribute table column width to fit the contents

Joey_Lecky — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 07:59:43 GMT

Hi @KoryKramer I updated to 3.1.1 and field width resizing now works as demonstrated in your July 2020 post. Thanks.