topic Re: How to make a Shapefile's Symbology as Categories with Unique Values default? in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/how-to-make-a-shapefile-s-symbology-as-categories/m-p/695048#M7500 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>One way is to define the symbology categorically and save the layer as a layer file (.lyr). The layer file will store the symbology information. Whenever you add the layer file to ArcMap, the same symbology gets displayed.</P><P></P><P>Another way is to export the shapefile to a geodatabase (File/Personal), and <A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/subtypes/creating-subtypes.htm">create subtypes</A>. Once subtypes are created, whenever you add the feature class to ArcMap, it get displayed as categorical symbology (although the colour of symbols may differ).</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:40:01 GMT JayantaPoddar 2017-04-07T07:40:01Z How to make a Shapefile's Symbology as Categories with Unique Values default? https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/how-to-make-a-shapefile-s-symbology-as-categories/m-p/695047#M7499 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I was wondering how I make my shapefile's display symbology as "Categories Unique Values" default instead of "Feature single symbol". &nbsp;What I mean is that it should be shown as categories with unique values (my shp file has only 7 unique values) as default when I opened it in arcgis. &nbsp;&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:31:50 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/how-to-make-a-shapefile-s-symbology-as-categories/m-p/695047#M7499 MikeTotti 2017-04-07T07:31:50Z Re: How to make a Shapefile's Symbology as Categories with Unique Values default? https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/how-to-make-a-shapefile-s-symbology-as-categories/m-p/695048#M7500 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>One way is to define the symbology categorically and save the layer as a layer file (.lyr). The layer file will store the symbology information. Whenever you add the layer file to ArcMap, the same symbology gets displayed.</P><P></P><P>Another way is to export the shapefile to a geodatabase (File/Personal), and <A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/subtypes/creating-subtypes.htm">create subtypes</A>. Once subtypes are created, whenever you add the feature class to ArcMap, it get displayed as categorical symbology (although the colour of symbols may differ).</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:40:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/how-to-make-a-shapefile-s-symbology-as-categories/m-p/695048#M7500 JayantaPoddar 2017-04-07T07:40:01Z