https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/best-methods-of-abusing-the-labelling-system-for/m-p/1257318#M65425 <P>I am a data analyst, subcontracted to perform asset management using a lightly customised version of ArcGIS Pro. <EM>I have no real ability to customise the installation</EM>, and must edit interactively as I am <EM>explicitly forbidden from running any scripts</EM> to perform my job - but what I CAN do is <EM>customise labels</EM>.</P><P><STRONG>For context,</STRONG> my work involves a large amount of editing the z-values of vertically stacked point features (all of which are attached/contained to/by another feature), placing them at specific offsets relative to one-another or the containing object. Obviously this is the sort of work that ought to be done by scripting some tool to automate the task - but again, this is forbidden.</P><P>The installations of ArcGIS Pro I work with are very slow because of (I assume) the size of the databases involved, the configurations of those databases, and/or the involved servers being constantly overloaded. Combined with how ArcGIS Pro will deselect all objects when editing geometry, and how painfully slow it is to re-select these objects given both lag and the objects being vertically stacked (the "make layer from selection" feature is disabled), I need workarounds to make my life easier, and abusing the label system has so far been the best way to do so.</P><P><STRONG>My questions are:</STRONG></P><P>1) Can I make a feature's label (in the attributes pane) depend on the attributes or geometry of the feature it contains, the feature containing it, or the "sibling" features that are similarly contained/attached to a "parent" feature?</P><P>2) Can I colour parts of the label (IN THE ATTRIBUTE PANE), and can I do so conditional on some function?</P><P>3) Are there other ways of abusing the labelling system that I haven't considered?</P><P>4) Are there other solutions I haven't considered for my problems?</P> Sat, 11 Feb 2023 05:59:35 GMT DeclanMaguire 2023-02-11T05:59:35Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/best-methods-of-abusing-the-labelling-system-for/m-p/1257318#M65425 <P>I am a data analyst, subcontracted to perform asset management using a lightly customised version of ArcGIS Pro. <EM>I have no real ability to customise the installation</EM>, and must edit interactively as I am <EM>explicitly forbidden from running any scripts</EM> to perform my job - but what I CAN do is <EM>customise labels</EM>.</P><P><STRONG>For context,</STRONG> my work involves a large amount of editing the z-values of vertically stacked point features (all of which are attached/contained to/by another feature), placing them at specific offsets relative to one-another or the containing object. Obviously this is the sort of work that ought to be done by scripting some tool to automate the task - but again, this is forbidden.</P><P>The installations of ArcGIS Pro I work with are very slow because of (I assume) the size of the databases involved, the configurations of those databases, and/or the involved servers being constantly overloaded. Combined with how ArcGIS Pro will deselect all objects when editing geometry, and how painfully slow it is to re-select these objects given both lag and the objects being vertically stacked (the "make layer from selection" feature is disabled), I need workarounds to make my life easier, and abusing the label system has so far been the best way to do so.</P><P><STRONG>My questions are:</STRONG></P><P>1) Can I make a feature's label (in the attributes pane) depend on the attributes or geometry of the feature it contains, the feature containing it, or the "sibling" features that are similarly contained/attached to a "parent" feature?</P><P>2) Can I colour parts of the label (IN THE ATTRIBUTE PANE), and can I do so conditional on some function?</P><P>3) Are there other ways of abusing the labelling system that I haven't considered?</P><P>4) Are there other solutions I haven't considered for my problems?</P> Sat, 11 Feb 2023 05:59:35 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/best-methods-of-abusing-the-labelling-system-for/m-p/1257318#M65425 DeclanMaguire 2023-02-11T05:59:35Z