topic Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

BrianE — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:56:50 GMT

I am trying to apply symbology from one multipatch layer to many multipatch layers. I am running Batch Apply Symbology (right clicking on "Apply Symbology From Layer" and selecting "Batch")

The symbology applies to only one multipatch layer but not the others.

Any ideas on why this is occurring?

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

DrewFlater — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 18:47:26 GMT

Hello Brian, this is a bug that will be addressed in a future release. For the time being, you can choose the option to save the batch Apply Symbology as a model in a toolbox, and if you fill in the parameters and run from inside ModelBuilder it works to apply the symbology to all the selected input layers.

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

BrianE — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 23:56:43 GMT

Can you please be more specific as to what you mean by “future release”?

2.2.1? 2.3? 3.0?

Thank you.

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

BrianE — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:17:10 GMT

Drew, I am working on a 3d map. I applied the symbology for one mutipatch model and applied it to 4 other multipatch models. I used the model builder and it took 4 minutes. This probably 4 times slower than if I was to do this manually

Am I missing something here?

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

DrewFlater — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:48:45 GMT

Apply Symbology is usually very fast - if you run the standard Apply Symbology From Layer tool in the Geoprocessing pane for just one of your layers, does it take 1 minute? Can you copy only the layers you want to apply symbology to into a new scene and try it again? If you're willing to share the data I'd be happy to do this investigation to see what's going on. Thanks

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

DrewFlater — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:49:22 GMT

Sorry I can only say that it will be 2.3 or after.

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

BrianE — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:20:33 GMT

Drew,

I was told that the data / project was shared with you. Have you been able to look into this?

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

LeandraGordon — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 23:51:16 GMT

Just FYI - Still logged as a bug, (Bug BUG-000119907)

My experience is
1.that it works reasonably reliably in 2.3 and 2.4 in a a model builder toolbox ONLY.
2. Doesn't work reliably in 2.4 or 2.3 in any python script or toolbox.
3. Still causing problems in 2.8.1 and not working at all in a model builder toolbox.

The problem seems to be something the code is hitting in the 'LYRX' file that causes it to just decide to skip. No error messages, it just either does nothing or connects to the wrong geodatabase.

And no ESRI Peoples - altering the database connection is NOT a workaround - have a look at the Update Symbology Ranges by Data (Optional) part of the command , that functionality cannot be reproduced by that workaround.

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

JamesPaull2 — Wed, 10 May 2023 04:42:42 GMT

This is still broken at 3.1 FYI.

Bit of a pain doing it manually for 60 odd layers....

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

Dunn_Jeremy — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:14:39 GMT

I concur James..I have tried to run this tool afew times today and each time it does something different.

1. Completes Successfully but has done nothing.

2. Doesn't Complete just fails.

3. Completes Successful but upon viewing the layers I see there is no symbology

Can we please get a solution to this problem with updating symbology. It would be nice if there was an option in the contents table to just highlight each layer and have the symbology show up so that one symbology can be applied to all the layers that are selected.

Regards.

Jeremy

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

AFangman — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:30:56 GMT

Seems to me still bugged. I have similar experience to Dunn_Jeremy above.

1. Completes Successfully but has done nothing.
2. Completes Successfully but has only completed one.

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

LaineyLe_Blanc1 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:41:34 GMT

2018 'til 2024, still is a problem. Tried to batch Match Layer to a Style, it says it runs and only works for one layer.

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

AileenBohan1 — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:22:57 GMT

Sadly, this is still an issue in 3.2.1. Is there any plans on addressing this?

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

BerritBredemeier1 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:00:43 GMT

I just experienced the same, the tool said it ran successfully, but only the last out of 7 layers I wanted to change the symbology on was actually changed, the other six remained as they were before. I'm on 3.3.1.

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

SydneyBriggs1 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:07:03 GMT

I am having this exact issue with Extract Multivalues to Points as well. Just updated today to 3.3.1 and still isn't working.

Re: Batch Apply Symbology Not Working

JasonBennett — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:15:14 GMT

I'm glad I searched for a solution to this issue instead of just assuming it could never work!

It is July 2025 and I'm on version 3.5.2...