Your Ideas in ArcGIS Pro 3.5

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ValeriaChavez
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ArcGIS Pro 3.5 was released May 13th, 2025 and we’re excited to share all of your ideas that you’ll find when you update. ArcGIS Pro 3.5 includes over 70 user ideas totaling more than 1,600 kudos.

This blog is a collection of ArcGIS Pro Shorts highlighting eight of our favorite Ideas implemented in ArcGIS Pro 3.5. 

To see the full list of what you can expect when you update to ArcGIS Pro 3.5, continue reading below.

1. Dual scale bars showing different units

2. Spatial definition query

3. Custom Pane Settings in "Reset Panes" Menu

4. Enhancements to pop-ups

This video features multiple implemented Ideas, including: 

5. Enhancements to the symbology histogram

This video features several complimentary Ideas, including: 

6. Show nodes, pseudonodes and dangles while editing

7. Symbol control in line charts

This video features several complimentary Ideas, including: 

8. Keeping consistent layer ids when publishing a service

Application & Administration 

Reduce the amount of license checking in order to make Pro more responsive 

Interface Scaling Smaller than 100% 

Turn off animated effects in ArcGIS Pro 

Allow use of username variable in configSettings file path values 

Restore Definition Query dropdown to QAT 

Content & Data Management

GeoParquet support in ArcGIS Pro 

Attribute Transfer Tool Equivalency in ArcGIS Pro 

Display the active topology more prominently 

Add "Paste Special" as an option for right click menu 

bring back the horizontal scroll bar in the catalog pane 

Error Inspector Filter: select multiple Layer - Rule 

Make compress file geodatabase compatible with new field formats 

Browse Dialog — Don't scroll down when file/folder clicked 

When creating a standalone table in a mobile geodatabase, import the schema from an existing feature... 

File Geodatabase — Calculate field using SQL 

Create new toolbox from Select Default Toolbox dialog 

Scroll and expand metadata fields in layer properties box (do not truncate) 

Export to CAD and support for SOLID polylines ("polygons") in CAD side 

Add support for autocad hatch geometry type 

Mobile Geodatabase — Calculate field using SQL 

Mapping & Visualization

Allow ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro to interact with ArcGIS Server Dynamic Layers 

Application wide setting / option to switch between "Clause" and "SQL" mode for expressions 

Layout Table Frame Heading Removal 

Searchable dropdown list in domain fields 

Create Steepest Path tool missing in ArcGIS Pro 

Let us remove tables and layers at the same time 

Export Flood Simulation to a video clip 

Save styles as unique values, not layer name 

Add Page Up/Page Down/Page Left/Page Right navigation commands 

Generate Definition Query From Selection — More intuitive "Overwrite Where Clause" parameter wording 

Show the class table for symbology methods that rely solely on the histogram for setting class break... 

Improve loading of svg files into layout 

Option to Ignore Map Clip Shape 

Add typing stubs to mp module 

Fix PDF export process to remove lines 

Dynamic text - table attribute - use selected TOC layer 

Graphic Text — When typing, use CTRL+A to select the text 

ArcGIS Pro- Layouts- Ability to save layout text to a style 

ArcGIS PRO export to .stl format for 3D printing 

Analysis & Geoprocessing

Pro: Create 3D points along a 3D line 

Drag and drop for re-ordering variables in Extract Multi Values to Points - ArcGIS Pro 

Calculate Field — Exclude un-editable fields from Field Name parameter 

Add p values to Scatter Plot Matrix 

Field Calculator Window 

Smarter Field Mapping - Append 

Append — Load XY table into point FC as point features 

Segment-geospatial python package 

Sharing & Publishing

Incorporate Portal content categories with ArcGIS Pro

Select tags from portal when publishing

Keeping consistent layer ids when publishing a service

Bring back shape field visible fix when publishing services

Use the same Portal item id when publishing a web layer from Pro on different Portals

Thank you all for sharing your ideas about how to make ArcGIS Pro better for you, your work, and the work of other users. I would like to extend a special thank you to the following community members who had ideas implemented this release:   

@SteveHartley@HenkZwols@jcarlson@JakubSisak@TorrinHultgren@cholmes@MarcoBoeringa@TracyMoy@ThomasColson@FabioLuiz2@RTPL_AU@KjetilSverdrup-Thygeson@RichardFairhurst@PamelaBerry@MargaretDolan1@MathiasThorp@StåleHaug@MatthewSwain@MizukiKayano2@jkink@m3@nadja@AlfredBaldenweck@BibiOung@RobertAkroyd1@Bud@jakek@DuncanHornby@AlanThomas2@vlatane_va_energy@LuciaBarbato1@MarcelSt-Germain@wayfaringrob@PatriciaCarbajales-Dale@LonnyRussell@TonyHowze@AlecBost@JLezik@MikaelGöthammer@JamesWilcox1970@HaydenWelch@RistoYlem@RavishBapna1  

We welcome the community's continued participation in helping us define ArcGIS Pro's development priorities for the future! Search, Participate, and Create in the ArcGIS Pro Idea Exchange 

To learn more about what's new in ArcGIS Pro 3.5, head over to the What's New documentation. 

3 Comments
StåleHaug
Occasional Contributor

We've already started using the functionality for showing nodes, pseudonodes and dangles while editing, and it works great! Just what we wanted.

JTessier
Frequent Contributor

Can you point us to the ideas for ArcGIS Enterprise that @https://community.esri.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/159799 was adding.  I can only find ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1 https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-ideas-blog/your-ideas-in-arcgis-enterprise-10-9/ba-p/1072018 as the last one, but would like to have seen this continue for the 11.x and the future releases.

jill_es
Esri Contributor

@JTessier, we have not created these for ArcGIS Enterprise since 10.9 was released.  The closest we come is our What's New in ArcGIS Enterprise blogs and Issues Addressed List.  I appreciate your feedback on this and our team will keep this in mind as a possibility for the future.

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