topic How to keep symbology and labels sync'd between data frames? in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/how-to-keep-symbology-and-labels-sync-d-between/m-p/525194#M5680 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>ArcGIS 10.3.1 for Desktop</P><P></P><P>I have an mxd file with nine different frames of essentially the same data (just displaying different layers in each map). These maps all include hospitals (as a point file). I'd like the <STRONG>symbology</STRONG> and <STRONG>labels</STRONG> to be linked between the frames, so if I update a master, the rest gets updated.</P><P></P><P>The files do share a symbology layer (I created one called hospital.lyr), but if I update it, I have to manually go into each frame and reload hospital.lyr. With nine frames, it gets time consuming.</P><P></P><P>Same thing for the label. I have defined a label style (myhospital), but if I update it, I have to go reload it for all the different frames.</P><P></P><P>Can I have these somehow linked, similar to how I can lock the scale/extent of various data frames to a master data frame?&nbsp; Just to be clear, I'm not asking for the symbology to be linked to the layer. I want the symbologies to be linked between the data frames; same thing for the labels.</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Feb 2017 04:35:55 GMT am95405 2017-02-24T04:35:55Z How to keep symbology and labels sync'd between data frames? https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/how-to-keep-symbology-and-labels-sync-d-between/m-p/525194#M5680 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>ArcGIS 10.3.1 for Desktop</P><P></P><P>I have an mxd file with nine different frames of essentially the same data (just displaying different layers in each map). These maps all include hospitals (as a point file). I'd like the <STRONG>symbology</STRONG> and <STRONG>labels</STRONG> to be linked between the frames, so if I update a master, the rest gets updated.</P><P></P><P>The files do share a symbology layer (I created one called hospital.lyr), but if I update it, I have to manually go into each frame and reload hospital.lyr. With nine frames, it gets time consuming.</P><P></P><P>Same thing for the label. I have defined a label style (myhospital), but if I update it, I have to go reload it for all the different frames.</P><P></P><P>Can I have these somehow linked, similar to how I can lock the scale/extent of various data frames to a master data frame?&nbsp; Just to be clear, I'm not asking for the symbology to be linked to the layer. I want the symbologies to be linked between the data frames; same thing for the labels.</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Feb 2017 04:35:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/how-to-keep-symbology-and-labels-sync-d-between/m-p/525194#M5680 am95405 2017-02-24T04:35:55Z