idea Reasons for grayed out tools in documentation. in ArcGIS Pro Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/reasons-for-grayed-out-tools-in-documentation/idi-p/939357 <P>It would be nice if the help documentation for tools would have reasons that the tool might be grayed out.&nbsp; The documentation says right click and select "Whatever", but doesn't say what to do if "Whatever" is grayed out.&nbsp; What might be the cause of it being grayed out?&nbsp; You program it to be grayed out, why not tell us what those triggers are?&nbsp; It would sure save me a lot of time searching the forums.<BR /><BR />These reasons could be listed like the Related Topics section at the bottom.</P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087E00000005AR9 --> Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:23:17 GMT JeffWard 2024-07-02T15:23:17Z Reasons for grayed out tools in documentation. https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/reasons-for-grayed-out-tools-in-documentation/idi-p/939357 <P>It would be nice if the help documentation for tools would have reasons that the tool might be grayed out.&nbsp; The documentation says right click and select "Whatever", but doesn't say what to do if "Whatever" is grayed out.&nbsp; What might be the cause of it being grayed out?&nbsp; You program it to be grayed out, why not tell us what those triggers are?&nbsp; It would sure save me a lot of time searching the forums.<BR /><BR />These reasons could be listed like the Related Topics section at the bottom.</P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087E00000005AR9 --> Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:23:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/reasons-for-grayed-out-tools-in-documentation/idi-p/939357 JeffWard 2024-07-02T15:23:17Z Re: Reasons for grayed out tools in documentation. https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/reasons-for-grayed-out-tools-in-documentation/idc-p/939358#M5078 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Brilliant! With a way to see why a graphical control element is greyed out, we would not need to look things up nearly as often. And like he said, it could simply be a matter of displaying the already existing triggers for greying them out. This is the best idea. Please upvote it. &nbsp;arcgis pro2.2.4&nbsp;esri staff&nbsp;<A href="https://community.esri.com/t5/tag/support@esri.com/tg-p">#support@esri.com</A></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 Aug 2019 18:24:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/reasons-for-grayed-out-tools-in-documentation/idc-p/939358#M5078 JacobLougee 2019-08-13T18:24:55Z Re: Reasons for grayed out tools in documentation. https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/reasons-for-grayed-out-tools-in-documentation/idc-p/939359#M5079 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I noticed today that they have done this in ArcGIS Pro. It told me why my save button was grayed out when modifying a field.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Sep 2019 21:21:53 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/reasons-for-grayed-out-tools-in-documentation/idc-p/939359#M5079 JeffWard 2019-09-25T21:21:53Z