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Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

Anonymous User — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 15:46:07 GMT

I am displaying a data grid of custom information in my Pro add-in. I have added this to a pane, however, when this pane is activated, the Contents dock pane is empty until a map view is again set as the active pane. I would like the Contents to remain populated with layers from the active map view, similar to how charts and attribute table panes work. When I add the data grid to a dock pane instead of a ViewStatePane, I do get this behavior, but then I cannot dock this pane to the map view. Is there a way to do this?

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

CharlesMacleod — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 22:57:25 GMT

Dockpane is the correct way to go. The best you can do on the docking is dock to the application window (left, right, top, bottom) - it does not support docking to a Pane (map, layout, etc) as you mention.

Conceptually, Pro has an Active pane (the one with focus). The TOC (amongst other things) keys off this and changes its contents to match whichever pane is active. Therefore, when you try to use a Pane (and not a ~dock~ pane), even though you get the docking behavior you want, activating your Pane de-activates the previously active pane (eg a map) and the TOC, seeing that ~your~ pane is not a mapview, it empties.

There are special cases in Pro where the context needs to be maintained even though a MapView does not have focus. For example, if you open a layer attribute table the TOC remains unchanged and the MapView.Active property is still valid. In this case, the table pane instance (hosting the attribute table) is providing the proper context to the TOC (for the mapview that contains the layer whose attributes are being shown) to keep the TOC populated. However, the code to do that is all internal and is not exposed in the API. Currently there are no plans to support this.

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

Jan-Tschada — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:40:02 GMT

There is a need for using custom panes connected to the map view like the attribute table is already doing.

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

Wolf — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 17:11:33 GMT

Hi Jan,

I updated the Layer Pane sample which I think does what you need: https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-pro-sdk-community-samples/tree/master/Map-Authoring/LayersPane
Can you check the sample and see if it satisfies your workflow needs?

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

Jan-Tschada — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 22:03:31 GMT

Hi Wolfgang,

I pulled your changes from the last commit "Simplified code to manage DataGrid control", but I cannot see any major changes to the view model acting as a view pane. Would you be so kind and validate if you pushed the changes you made to the public repository or maybe it is just committed to your local one?

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

Wolf — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:35:55 GMT

Hi Jan,

I misunderstood the original question, even with the updated sample the 'Contents' dockpane's TOC is 'emptied' when the 'Pane' is activated. Sorry about the confusion. So Charlie's answer from above stands: currently this feature is not supported.

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

CharlesMacleod — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:54:26 GMT

We will look at supporting this for next release.

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

JodiLuostarinen — Wed, 24 May 2017 20:32:16 GMT

Is there an update to this issue? I am using the Pro SDK 1.4.1 and just want to programmatically open (show) the attribute table from a standalone table listed in the TOC. Thanks.

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

UmaHarano — Wed, 24 May 2017 20:45:47 GMT

This will be possible with the 2.0 release of the Pro SDK. We anticipate 2.0 to be released end of June. There will be a new Visual Studio item template that can be used to create a pane that is linked to an active map. When 2.0 is released, there will be Pro SDK Samples and guides to help with this.

In the meantime, you could download the ArcGIS Pro 2.0 Beta to experiment with this functionality to get ready for the final release.

Thanks

Uma

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

JodiLuostarinen — Wed, 24 May 2017 20:51:30 GMT

Thank you very much for the quick reply and update.

Jodi Luostarinen

CEO Quartic Solutions

1804 Garnet Ave. #447

San Diego, CA 92109

mobile: (619) 602-7606

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Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

JodiLuostarinen — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 21:57:53 GMT

ESRI Response to Question on 7/5/2007:

I have heard back from additional resources on this issue and currently there is no control for a table in ArcGIS Pro 2.0 SDK. Therefore, to implement your own pane with an attribute table, you would have to create your own with a data grid and pass that to the content property in the DAML. Alternatively, you can use the sample from GitHub that creates its own data grid and displays the attribute table with the needed fields in a new pane: https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-pro-sdk-community-samples/tree/master/Map-Authoring/LayersPane This can be implemented in an ArcGIS Pro Map Pane Impersonation from the templates via ArcGIS Pro 2.0 SDK.

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

SamanthaHughes1 — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:55:40 GMT

Is there any easy way to show the attribute table when clicking a button for a specific table? I know which layer I want the attribute table to show for.

I basically want to replicate, the right click and "Show Attribute Table" function and it is already open within my map.

TIA

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

JodiLuostarinen — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:31:52 GMT

This is just a thought, but have you looked-up the DAML id for the open

attribute table tool, and tried something like this?

//Select From Map

// System.Windows.Input.ICommand cmd =

FrameworkApplication.GetPlugInWrapper("esri_mapping_selectByRectangleTool")

as ICommand;

//if ((cmd != null) && cmd.CanExecute(null))

// cmd.Execute(null);

Jodi Luostarinen

CEO Quartic Solutions

1804 Garnet Ave. #447

San Diego, CA 92109

mobile: (619) 602-7606

www.quarticsolutions.com

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

Wolf — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:41:35 GMT

Jodi is correct this code snippet below opens the attribute table for the current select feature layer in the Content Dockpane:

protected override void OnClick()
{
 var cmdOpenAttributeTable = FrameworkApplication.GetPlugInWrapper("esri_editing_table_openTablePaneButton") as ICommand;
 if (cmdOpenAttributeTable != null)
 {
  if (cmdOpenAttributeTable.CanExecute(null))
  {
   cmdOpenAttributeTable.Execute(null);
  }
 }
}‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

DAML Ids for built-in commands are listed here: https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-pro-sdk/wiki/ArcGIS-Pro-DAML-ID-Reference

And in order to select a feature layer in the TOC you can use the snippet below:
https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-pro-sdk/wiki/ProSnippets-MapExploration#select-all-feature-layers-in-toc

Put the two snippets together you get the following solution which opens the attribute tables for all feature layers:

protected override void OnClick()
{

    //Get the active map view.
    var mapView = ArcGIS.Desktop.Mapping.MapView.Active;
    if (mapView == null)
        return;

    //Zoom to the selected layers in the TOC
    var featureLayers = mapView.Map.Layers.OfType<FeatureLayer>();
    mapView.SelectLayers(featureLayers.ToList());


    var cmdOpenAttributeTable = FrameworkApplication.GetPlugInWrapper("esri_editing_table_openTablePaneButton") as ICommand;
    if (cmdOpenAttributeTable != null)
    {
        if (cmdOpenAttributeTable.CanExecute(null))
        {
            cmdOpenAttributeTable.Execute(null);
        }
    }
}‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

SamanthaHughes1 — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:54:12 GMT

Thanks Wolfgang,

I seem to have the strangest error when running this, the attribute table opens up but then get an exception related to the width of the window and it all crashes out before the data within the window completely opens. I am going to wait until I am back in work tomorrow to try again before I completely go nuts.

So I almost got there. Thank you very much for pointing out the DAMLs - I have now found the reference page.

vb version:

Try

Dim cmdOpenAttributeTable As ICommand = FrameworkApplication.GetPlugInWrapper("esri_editing_table_openTablePaneButton")
cmdOpenAttributeTable.Execute(Nothing)

Catch

MessageBox.Show("Error Opening Attribute Table")
End Try

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

SamanthaHughes1 — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:27:15 GMT

Hi Wolf, have you ever seen this error before? (My code below)

Dim cmdOpenAttributeTable As ICommand = FrameworkApplication.GetPlugInWrapper("esri_editing_table_openTablePaneButton")

If cmdOpenAttributeTable IsNot Nothing Then
   If (cmdOpenAttributeTable.CanExecute(Nothing)) Then
      cmdOpenAttributeTable.Execute(Nothing)
   End If
End If

This error appears after opening the attribute table before the data has loaded. Is it a bug? I have read that it could be down to screen resolution but struggling to resolve.

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

Wolf — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:50:26 GMT

I tried your code snippet (in VB) and didn't get any errors. Are you able to open the Attribute tables from within ArcGIS Pro? If not it's probably a good idea to refresh your display device drivers to the latest available version. However, if it works from within Pro I would first look and make sure there are NO other add-ins running at the time. To check you can delete all files from the well-known add-ins location, or when you open Pro you can click on 'About ArcGIS Pro' and then use the add-in manager to remove all existing add-ins. Then I would recompile the sample and try again. It is possible that the error you see is getting thrown by another add-in that is still running without your knowledge.

Re: Connect Add-in Pane to active map?

SamanthaHughes2 — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 13:58:06 GMT

Hi Wolf,

Thanks for testing my code and reassuring me that there is nothing wrong with it. I am tried all the above, and I am unable to automate opening an attribute table.

I have refreshed my display drivers too even though I can open an attribute table directly in Pro and removed all the addins from my add-in manager menu.

Bit random ey? I have emailed in so hopefully someone will have some more ideas for me to try.

Just wanted to say thanks for some great ideas to debug.