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ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

VincentLaunstorfer — Thu, 24 May 2018 09:11:39 GMT

Hi,

I am getting frustrated with the new Explore tool (Map tab) in ArcGIS Pro as I cannot click & drag a polygon to explore (formely identify in ArcMap) multiple features. Is there any workaround?

If there is no solution, please ESRI add this functionality to the next release.

There is always the option to click & drag with the Select tool but I have to open attribute tables in order to explore my features. It is rather cumbersome, in addition to ArgGIS Pro being slow.

Thanks

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 24 May 2018 09:38:06 GMT

Are you referring to holding down the Shift key then dragging the mouse to form a rectangle?

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Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

VincentLaunstorfer — Thu, 24 May 2018 09:45:08 GMT

Not quite.

Shift + click opens the zoom in icon for the mouse pointer, in order to draw a rectangle to zoom in.

I am referring to click & drag a rectangle only to "select" multiple features in the Explore tool in order to scroll through the selection in the pop-up window. Just like it used to be in the Identify tool in ArcMap... Simple things but it makes work easier and faster...

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 24 May 2018 09:51:11 GMT

Same idea... just a different tool

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

VincentLaunstorfer — Thu, 24 May 2018 09:59:27 GMT

Exactly. This is what I currently do. But it forces me to open all relevant feature class tables in order to explore the attributes... Not the best.

To me, the former Identify tool in ArcMap was more flexible and powerful!

Thanks

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 24 May 2018 10:34:28 GMT

Oh that one Vincent!!

You just have to learn to be more patient

https://community.esri.com/ideas/10859-add-the-a-real-identify-tool-to-the-arcgis-pros-inquiry-ribbon-area

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

KoryKramer — Thu, 24 May 2018 19:08:05 GMT

This is in ArcGIS Pro 2.2 which is the upcoming release:

To do a rectangle select with the Explore tool, hold Ctrl and drag a rectangle:

Holding Shift will give you the zoom rectangle.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

VincentLaunstorfer — Fri, 25 May 2018 08:52:26 GMT

Good news!

Will this improved Explore tool (to Identify features) be able to click & drag polygon to select with multiple options? The Explore has currently Topmost/Visible/Selectable/... Will it be possible to select features only in a given group layer?

Looking forward to use this tool...

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

KoryKramer — Fri, 25 May 2018 19:07:05 GMT

Yes, you should be able to control only working with a group layer using Selected in Contents and highlighting just that group layer.

In the example above, drawing a box around a feature in Cities, Countries, and Contours, only returns the Cities and Countries features and not the contour because the group layer is Selected in Contents and only contains Cities and Countries.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

AaronCraig2 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:02:41 GMT

So how do we do this? I tried shift click and only get a zoom in window.

ESRI should really make this a button. Who the heck knows any keyboard hotkey combos ... INTUITIVELY ....?? Where as visible buttons a labels/drop downs are way easier to self teach/intuitive. I miss identify. It seemed like it had less over head and was faster.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:10:17 GMT

Then again, everyone survived the switch from DOS to Windows

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

AaronCraig2 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:47:06 GMT

They did. And your point?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:51:29 GMT

they will survive the migration to Pro... as did people when they moved from ArcView 3.x to Arcgis

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

AaronCraig2 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:58:36 GMT

Not sure what your getting at.. Are you saying I should not voice my opinion and criticisms? That I shouldn't be upset with ESRI for replacing a great all in one tool with a bunch of individual "tools" (some call them bandaids, others call em workarounds) and all their extra buttons and clicks?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:05:18 GMT

No... you voiced yours... I voiced mine... reminding people that transition isn't going to please everyone.

It is also useful to use ArcGIS Ideas‌ to make suggestions for improvement. Just calling out defects won't move anything forward

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

KoryKramer — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:10:18 GMT

Hi Aaron,

A pattern that is used throughout the Pro interface is to provide tool tips when you hover over something. To do a rectangle select with the Explore tool, hold Ctrl and drag a rectangle:

Holding Shift will give you the zoom rectangle.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

AaronCraig2 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:17:56 GMT

I suppose then it comes down to forum moderation.... Calling out defects in the appropriate thread vs starting a new thread for every individual one... What do you suggest I do, Dan? As you can see, MY original question to this comment was HOW do we do the drag and identify. The GIF Kory originally posted does not state how to do, just that it is being done and we can see him do it.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

KoryKramer — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:22:17 GMT

I don't typically like to do this, but I marked my answer as correct since what was being asked for in this thread (draw a polygon with the Explore tool with the end goal of multi-select to identify features) was implemented at ArcGIS Pro 2.2.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

AaronCraig2 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:23:54 GMT

Good to know Kory. Thanks. I haven't left my mouse on explore long enough to see that. Or any tool tips really.. They do not stand out to me. I would not have been able to guess that was an intended pattern without you pointing out that.

Will there be continued development of the explore tool?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.1 | How to drag a polygon with Explore tool?

AaronCraig2 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:27:47 GMT

Right. Which I can see, but TO MY original question on this comment thread and to the answer you posted and marked as correct, you don't actually explain in that post to hold ctrl then drag. The first mention of that seems to be in the tool tip you showed me.

If you decide to keep your post as the correct answer, to the question of this thread, can you edit it to include the ctrl + drag part?

Thanks