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Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

ErinSchmidt1 — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:51:00 GMT

Is there any way to dock the pop up screen to a specific spot and leave it there? I frequently open and close the pop up window and it would be nice if it stayed in the exact same spot or if it could be docked along with the Catalog and Geoprocessing tabs along the side of the screen. The identify tool could be docked in ArcMap but that doesn't seem to be the case in Pro. Any insight is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

DanPatterson_Retired — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 04:03:59 GMT

dock isn't used, but 'pin' is .... http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/mapping/navigation/pop-ups.htm

specially here ... http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/mapping/navigation/pop-ups.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_628588AC66254ACAA638ADE34D3B5A53

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

KoryKramer — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:20:00 GMT

Dan is right. The popups can be pinned to keep them in their location. However, I'm curious about your use case of frequently opening and closing the popup. The current identify workflow in ArcGIS Pro is to use the Attributes pane along with selections to identify. See The Quest for the Missing Identify Tool | ArcGIS Blog

Also, you might be interested in https://community.esri.com/ideas/10859‌ - that thread provides more screenshots about using the Attributes pane.

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

DanielBrenner — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:11:06 GMT

I have something roughly the same going on in ArcGIS 10.5.

Once I identify a point, I would like to zoom into the point automatically, and once I do, have the Identify window dock to a position on the monitor so that I can actually SEE what it is I am identifying, instead of having to move it from being on top of the feature.

Another thing I'd like to do is customize the Identify window so that X amount of attributes for a layer are in one "field" and the other set of attributes are in the next "field" over. This would be similar to the Fields tab in the Properties for any layer.

If there is a way to attach my illustrations to show what it is I am referring to I would love to hear it.

Thanks,

Daniel B

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:18:42 GMT

Sounds like you want to develop a custom tool using arcobjects though

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

DanielBrenner — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:45:31 GMT

Essentially yes, I'm seeing that. I haven't ever worked with ArcObjects but I have time on my hands at work so...

If I was to go that way, how difficult do you think it would be to do something like that?

I talked to ESRI Support and they mentioned ArcObjects and forwarded me to the SDK Desktop staff but I couldn't get through to them.

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

DanielBrenner — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:56:13 GMT

Is there another software that I could use to do the same thing? One that's just as functional, recognizing the spatial element and then converting it into an informational window (tag?) and positioning itself appropriately?

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

MarcoBoeringa — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:57:50 GMT

Have you considered using the build-in HTML-popup option of layers in ArcMap? Supposedly, this also works for ArcGIS Server served layers:

Setting HTML pop-up properties for feature layers—Help | ArcGIS Desktop

Well, as to other software, there is of course QGIS out there... The upcoming 3.0 release seems to support more dockable windows:

http://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/version/3.0.0/#enable-tabbed-floating-docks

And an older functionality seems to already allow you to dock the attribute table in QGIS 2.x:

qgis - Displaying attribute table on top - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

DanielBrenner — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:02:43 GMT

Marco,

Thanks kindly for the link to QGIS; there were a lot of fun things to look at, but how I'd integrate them into ArcGIS is beyond me.

The big thing behind this is that this is something that should have been more than readily apparent from the get go for the design of the ArcGIS (or ArcView??) Identify user interface:

1) why are you tempting the user to think they can put in other info in a field that is blank when you extend the Identify window to see more attributes?

2) why does the Identify window have to be in front of the Identified object when the User clicks on it?

Grr. I'm not trying to rag on the designers but what else is a rookie GISer supposed to think (YES YES YES that is who I am doing this for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

CathyWilson2 — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:56:32 GMT

I have a similar problem. I click on an item and get the identify pop-up. I want to transcribe some of the data into the attribute table, but as soon as I click on the attribute table, the pop-up closes. Clicking the "Pin to screen" button doesn't help. Am I missing something? Or does "Pin to screen" only work if you want multiple pop-ups on the screen at one time?

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

KoryKramer — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:01:25 GMT

At Pro 2.2 you will be able to dock the pop-up.

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

CathyWilson2 — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:06:02 GMT

Oh, goody! We're on 2.1.2, so next upgrade for us!

Thank you for the quick reply!

Thank you,

Cathy Wilson

Cartographic Technician

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

4701 N. Torrey Pines Drive

Las Vegas, NV 89130

702-515-5259

cathy_wilson@fws.gov

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

KoryKramer — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:08:11 GMT

You're welcome!

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

DanielBrenner — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:17:26 GMT

Some of us aren’t working in Pro.

Do you know how to do the same thing in ARC GIS??

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

DanielBrenner — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:19:14 GMT

But what if we’re working in ArcGIS 10.5?

I am not allowed to use ArcGIS Pro.

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

KoryKramer — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:23:53 GMT

The question was Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

You can dock the identify window in ArcMap. Just drag it until you see the blue hover tips, and then hold it over where you want to dock:

Not docked:

Docked:

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

DanielBrenner — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:02:10 GMT

NO NO NO NO NO!!!!

This IS NOT what I am talking about. This is for an ArcGIS 1001 user. As in someone who doesn't know ArcGIS but can automatically see an issue with it? PLEASE.

I only had to install Visual Studio 2015 and Arcobjects end ended up getting a fraction of what I needed.

Click Identify button. Identify window should AUTOMATICALLY show up in same place every time in relation to the identified feature. As in, when you select something from a table and it AUTOMATICALLY goes to the center of the screen. Why can't the same thing AUTOMATICALLY happen when you identify? Zoom in to identified feature at X distance away?

Dragging and docking is not what I had in mind at all. And certainly not a dock at bottom of screen thing either. PLEASE.

I still don't have an answer as to why there is an Empty Field in the identify window. Why is it we can't use that field for the last 8 attributes out of 16, for example?

Re: Is there a way to dock the identify/pop up screen in ArcGIS Pro?

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:23:53 GMT

Start your own question please.

This one is about ArcGIS Pro