topic Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro? in ArcGIS Pro Questions

How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

DuncanHornby — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:07:22 GMT

All,

I am using ArcPro 2.0.1 to construct a Layout.

I have created a layer called cluster group which has 5 symbols, the first and last symbol have longer labels as shown in the image. I have selected this item in the legend in the TOC, gone to properties of labels and clicked on right justify as shown below. I would have expected all labels to justify right.

What am I doing wrong?

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:37:32 GMT

See if this approach behaves differently in isolation or in combination

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

DuncanHornby — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:49:08 GMT

Had a go at your suggestion and it did not work. I'm fast coming to the conclusion its some sort of bug and nothing I am doing is changing the horizontal position of the labels within the legend. In fact if I choose any label, say header or layer and try to change the horizontal alignment nothing happens. I can change their colour so I know I'm point to right part of the legend. Searching the online help and I discover nothing about horizontal alignment for LEGEND labels. It's as if they have created the buttons but not put any functionality behind them?

Of cause I could convert it to a graphic but I want to avoid that as then it becomes detached from the layer.

Kory Kramer‌ you are the ArcGIS Pro Guru, any ideas?

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:04:10 GMT

So you want more than just the rearrangement of the pieces, it appears you want the whole thing aligned to the right side.

Nope... no setting there, you can order the pieces so that the labels are on the left, middle or right, but I have had no success in getting a big shove to the right of the box at all.

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

XanderBakker — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:42:06 GMT

Just wondering, what kind of result are you trying to achieve?

This or perhaps this ?

It seems that some setting do not have effect. I also wasn't able to change the alignment of the text. Although the preview below the setting shows the effect, nothing happened in the legend. I even changed the internationalization setting to "right to left" and that didn't do anything either.

You may want to consider opening a support case and to see if this is a bug.

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

KoryKramer — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:00:30 GMT

Xander and Duncan Hornby‌

We have [BUG-000096166: In ArcGIS Pro, legend elements in the layout are unable to adjust to the settings for the Horizontal Alignment, Vertical Alignment, Offset X, and Offset Y Position properties and do not move as expected when clicking the Apply button] logged.

I'm checking in with that team now to see if there is anything more to share at the moment in terms of status. It is currently marked as assigned.

The workaround would be to convert to graphics and align... hopefully another update soon.

Cheers

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

DuncanHornby — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:23:45 GMT

Xander,

I was expecting your left hand image. District Municipality is another layer so should not be justified. It was just the cluster layer I was trying to realign labels with. As Kory indicated it is an existing bug.

Thanks for the feedback.

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

KoryKramer — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:59:25 GMT

Duncan Hornby‌ and Xander Bakker‌.

It looks like the item alignment works in conjunction with word wrapping. So when I haven't enabled Word wrapping, for example on Labels, when I align labels to the right, nothing happens.

When I switch over to Legend > Word wrapping and enable it on Labels:

Give that a try and let me know if it works for you.

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

XanderBakker — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:17:55 GMT

Interesting! That setting does seem to have effect:

However, I still don't understand why the numbers remain left and the <all other values> moves to the right...

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

DuncanHornby — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:48:46 GMT

I've tried this approach and can indeed now get the labels to justify right. I don't know if this a design flaw or a bug? It is a very odd approach that you have to turn on word wrapping and set the width (Xander Bakker I'm guessing that is why your numbers still remained left as they are below the defined width size) so justification can work. This is not intuitive and I'm pretty sure not documented! I still personally see this as a bug, so I will leave your original reply marked as correct.

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

KoryKramer — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:22:57 GMT

Thank you, Duncan, for following up on the thread to let us know that you have it working. I'm in communication with the layout team on this one.

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

KoryKramer — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:46:32 GMT

Hornbydd‌ Just wanted to let you know that the layout team has taken this issue and will consider ways to improve the user experience. We all appreciate your feedback.

Thank you!

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

BrennaHughes — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:12:20 GMT

Any updates on this, @KoryKramer ? I just spent half an hour troubleshooting this in 2.8.2 (am stuck in a long project before my next update, but this sounds like an old bug).

There's absolutely nothing logical about turning on word wrapping to solve a right-aligned patch failure, and I only found this solution by way of a person having difficulties with right-to-left text.

Re: How do right align legend labels in ArcPro?

BrennaHughes — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:04:02 GMT

In 3.0.0 I can get it to right-align with word-wrapping, but I can't get rid of the huge useless space when it's right-aligned:

I've checked all of the spacing & indent settings. If I try to control the width manually, I get the dreaded red dots.

I tried the same with a single column & have the same issue.

However, If I break it into two legends and turn off half of my items in each, remove the background, and then draw a fake background behind it, I can get the effect I'm looking for.

I hope I never have to edit any of it...