Color from Line to Points or Polygon

[RobertBorchert]

It is frustrating when one wants to create symbols with the colors from polylines to polygons you have to create the colors 2 times.  Not a big deal when you have a handful of attribute differences to color.

However when you have hundreds of different attributes it is very time cosuming.

I would like to see the ability to use the colors for a an attribute in one feature type used in the second feature that is not the same type.

Example.  I have 573 unique line sections.  I want to color all lines and points with same color based on the LineSection attribute.  This can be quick and simply way to help find errors in data.

[ChristopherCorder]

I support this request as well. @NigelBaker I am trying to do the same with a geology dataset and matching point colors to the various geologic units/colors. Have you been able to find an efficient solution to this problem.

[NigelBaker]

hi,

ESRI has, as usual, been totally silent on this thread (and most others i follow as well for that matter). they dont seem to care about product development and so 'support' involves the community helping each other.

glad this software is cheap!

anyway, the only way i have been able to work around this is to get Claude to write me a python code that works in Arcpy so that the colour #hex values assigned in the symbology are written to an attribute table. then these values need to be used to write to the new feature class.

i have not actually used it for the specific purpose in this thread, but have done almost the same thing to write symbology values (colours and descriptions) to point attributes, which can then be used to write to a new symbology for a different feature type. in my example i create polygons from lines and points. the point data attributes then get assigned to the resulting polygons. so i have taken my symbology (very detailed, geological legend) and written it to the point attribute fields, then when i create my polygons this information is preserved and can be utilised to symbolise the polygons via the next step in the code.

if you plan well, the AI can really help you to do these type of tasks efficiently.

good luck