topic Re: ArcPro Editing Toolbar Always Appears in ArcGIS Pro Questions

ArcPro Editing Toolbar Always Appears

CaoimheMoy — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:46:20 GMT

When creating new point/editing vertices etc., the editing toolbar appears on the bottom of the screen. Having finished with the edits, I click the box with the green check to confirm I am done with my edits, and then save my edits.

However recently, when I click to another map/layout and then return to the original that I was editing, the editing toolbar appears again and I have to close it down again. I have never had this problem before and it is only recently this has begun to happen.

This is particularly annoying when I activate a map within a layout and the edit bar appears and I make edits by accident.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: ArcPro Editing Toolbar Always Appears

Robert_LeClair — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:59:55 GMT

Interesting. When I see strange or odd behavior, I recommend users apply a soft reset of the ArcGIS Pro application to see if this helps. You can learn more about it here.

Re: ArcPro Editing Toolbar Always Appears

Scott_Harris — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 12:32:52 GMT

That is odd. Which tool does the toolbar you see belong to? Can you provide a screenshot?

The only time the toolbar should show is when an editing tool is active. One thing to consider, is Link Cursors enabled in the project?

If so, that may explain the behavior since an Editing tool that is active within a map will activate the same tool in the layout to allow for editing across views.

Re: ArcPro Editing Toolbar Always Appears

CaoimheMoy — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 09:57:46 GMT

For example this is the edit vertices toolbar, but it's any of the create/editing tools which have a little pop-up at the bottom of the screen like this one.

Link cursors isn't active in any of my projects.

It might be beneficial to add that this doesn't happen when moving between layouts and back to maps exclusively, it happens when when moving from one map to another, maps to layouts etc.

Re: ArcPro Editing Toolbar Always Appears

CaoimheMoy — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:08:48 GMT

Do you know if performing a soft reset would affect anything pre-set/pre-saved i.e., symbology, spatial reference etc.?

Re: ArcPro Editing Toolbar Always Appears

Scott_Harris — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:30:30 GMT

Yes that certainly looks like the toolbar that belongs to the Edit Vertices tool. Another question, when this happens, what does the Modify Features pane look like? That's the pane that hosts the tools so I'd be curious what state that pane is in.

Re: ArcPro Editing Toolbar Always Appears

DustyJordan — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 05:50:10 GMT

Did you ever get this figured out?

I've been dealing with it for awhile now and it drives me absolutely insane. Every time I switch between a map or layout it reactivates the create/modify tools automatically...even if I've closed completely out of those tools several times and switched to map navigation mode.

Re: ArcPro Editing Toolbar Always Appears

Scott_Harris — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:30:03 GMT

@DustyJordan did you contact Esri Technical Support? If not, it might be a good idea to show them.

The questions I have:

When it happens what does the Modify Features pane look like. Is it showing a tool still active?
Do you have any add-ins?
Are you launching tools from another place besides the Modify Features pane, example the Quick Access Toolbar?
Is the problem happening in all projects?

Re: ArcPro Editing Toolbar Always Appears

TeresaA — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:42:52 GMT

I have the same problem. Happens a lot.

Re: ArcPro Editing Toolbar Always Appears

Robert_LeClair — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:32:07 GMT

@TeresaA - so I'm seeing this as well in ArcGIS Pro 3.5. I "think" it's the way the editing panes are configured for creating/updating features. If, after editing and saving, you click the View core tab and in the Windows group, click the drop down for Pane Sets and select Mapping, then this behavior goes away. Still very strange though...

Re: ArcPro Editing Toolbar Always Appears

Mohanabrabu — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:07:29 GMT

@Robert_LeClair This resolved the issue of the Edit toolbar popping up each time when switched to the Map.