Add the option to save custom legend settings to the lyrx file of a layer

[RTPL_AU]

To make legends look good or fit specific requirements you sometimes have to be creative with the settings for a layer in a legend.

Idea: Add the ability to save the legend-specific settings as part of the .lyrx of a layer.

These could include the patch size & shape, if headings & layer name should be used, font settings, etc.

This will make it much more efficient adding a layer to a map and then adding it to a legend. 
Currently you have to manually change all these layer specific settings to a legend when you add the layer to another existing map/layout.

[Anonymous User]

Hi,

All of these options are available to save and share in a legend item style. You can then apply that style to any item in a legend, no need for it to be layer specific. 

[RTPL_AU]

Hi Aubrey,

The key to this Idea is to make the overall process a lot simpler. 
Having legend config options in the layer (lyrx) itself means that only one object has to be used to carry over all of an item's styling & configuration. 

Styles are handy but it means that 2 objects need to be created and used.
Due to the way styles are managed, it becomes complicated/messy when you work with a large number of clients/jobs. Saving everything in a master style or favourites doesn't work over time, and saving the style files to the job folder means you have to load the style into Pro before you can use it.

This Idea as additional to Styles.

[AlfredBaldenweck]

I would like this for things like my background layers. I expect the average map reader to understand that a blue squiggly line is a river; I do not need to have it in my legend. If I could just set up the layer so that it never goes into the legend, that would be amazing. (Having typed this, I'm not sure it's relevant).

For things that actually are supposed to be in the legend, I think having settings like "This item always draws in a single column" or "begin new column after this item" would be pretty useful as well.