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ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

VincentLaunstorfer — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:10:13 GMT

Hi,

When in the Edith tab in ArcGIS Pro 2.1, with the tool Move selected, if I click on a point feature and move it, it moves all overlapping point features at the same time! I would like to only move one point feature, one by one.

The left-hand pane do show just one feature in the selected list but it still moves all overlapping points...

How can I change this behaviour? (no Topology is needed neither enabled).

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:56:00 GMT

Try selecting the point in the table first to see if you can isolate it and perhaps then....

Move a feature to specified location—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

VincentLaunstorfer — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:58:35 GMT

Thanks. This is exactly what I was trying when you replied.

Unfortunately, even selecting a single row in the Attribute table ends up to move both Point features, as shown below. Crazy!

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

MichaelVolz — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:19:11 GMT

Vincent:

Is the original workflow for moving a single point how you would perform this action for moving a point in ArcMap? If not, then this should be on ESRI's list to make ArcGIS Pro equivalent to ArcMap.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

VincentLaunstorfer — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:26:56 GMT

In ArcMap, for editing symbols in maps, I used to convert features to graphics or into an Annotation Feature Class. It worked well and it was faster. In another post:

https://community.esri.com/thread/203822-arcgis-pro-20-how-to-author-map-symbols

ESRI recommended to make a copy a symbols to edit to perform editing. I am not quite convinced with this workflow but this is all I could do in Pro for the time being...

But I discovered you cannot move an isolated point feature without moving all others overlapping points!

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

ThomasColson — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:54:52 GMT

I tried to repro this in 2.2: I moved 5 points all on top of each other, selected them, Right Click Only Select This, Modify, Move, and it only moved 1 out of the 5 points. Additionally, if I just click on the point, it only moves the "top" one. I would try upgrading to 2.2....

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

MichaelVolz — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:57:50 GMT

I wonder if the datasource might also be a factor in how the Move tool works.

Vincent and Thomas - What are the datasources for your point data?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

VincentLaunstorfer — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:04:00 GMT

My datasource is FGDB. I have not tried it with shapefile yet...

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

MichaelVolz — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:14:43 GMT

Would you also need to perform this type of Move operation on SDE data?

I was able to move a point feature in a file gdb that was co-incident with over 100 other point features and move just 1 point in Pro 2.1.0 and 2.2.0. The operation to perform this action to select that feature using the Select By Attribute geoprocessing was clunky and much slower than in ArcMap though.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 01:16:49 GMT

If you have a bunch of points that overlap... why not just produce a layer where they don't overlap.

Calculate the X, Y locations within the attribute table
decide on a scatter distance (we will call it 'sd', like maybe 10 meters)
add 2 new fields in your table Xnew and Ynew
calculate new values using the field calculator
add the table as an event layer

Xnew = (X - sd) + random.rand() * sd/2.0

Ynew = (Y - sd) + random.rand() * sd/2.0

This will scatter all points, so you may want to use the

Find Identical—Data Management toolbox | ArcGIS Desktop

on the shape field, and only run this on those points.

The alternative is to fiddle around trying to select an overlapping point. If you don't like where it went? well now you can move it since the chances of it overlapping with another point are greatly reduced.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

JohnJones — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:48:48 GMT

It seems that one of two things is happening here...

Map topology may be enabled and thus maintaining coincidence of these points when moving one of them. If this is the case it can be easily fixed by selecting "No Topology" from the drop down on the Edit tab's "Manage Edits" group. This choice will be stored in the project and moving will independently move points again.
These two layers are referencing the same dataset so they are aliasing one another, e.g. you don't actually have two points in the database but you have two layers rendering the same point with different symbology on the map. You can detect this case by examining the "Source" page of the layers' property sheets. If this is the case you can't independently move these points while the layers are referencing the same feature in the database.The correct course of action depends on what you are trying to model (are these points supposed to be independent etc).

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

VincentLaunstorfer — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 08:44:09 GMT

Hi,

This did not work for me with ArcGIS Pro 2.2. However, John Jones solution 1 above was the issue. In the Edit tab, under Manage Edits group, Map Topology was activated. I could not find this setting before!

With No Topology selected, it is all fine. It makes sense.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

VincentLaunstorfer — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 08:46:00 GMT

Thanks.

The issue was indeed the topology. Solution 1 suggested worked. I can now move feature points one by one with No Topology selected in Edit tab, under Manage Edits group.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

VincentLaunstorfer — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:58:21 GMT

Although the issue in this thread is now solved, I do have one additional question.

I discovered that Editing with Map Topology enabled (default), moving symbols is far slower than Editing with No Topology! A lot more slower!

But in the other hand, Editing with no Topology do not keep the symbol size according to the Reference Scale, with in turn is rather annoying (illustrated below). Is there any way to apply Reference Scale to symbols when Editing with No Topology?

Editing with Map Topology (symbol size correct according to Reference Scale):

Editing with No Topology (symbol size reduced and to to scale)

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to move only 1 feature when editing?

ShannonPugh — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 20:32:07 GMT

Thank you JohnJones! This issue was driving me bonkers. It was the "Map Topology" drop down.