Create a simple 1-click method for getting a list of unique values from ArcPro UI

[DuncanHornby]

It amazes me, even now this far advanced in development, that ArcPro still does not offer a simple 1-click grab of  unique values to clipboard option. I often need to report what the values are in say a categorical field. I would love ArcPro to offer up a 1-click option that simply copies the unique values to clipboard so I can paste them into a word report or text file, or dare I say it metadata!

ArcPro offers a variety of places where it must have calculated the unique values which could conveniently be copied into clipboard. The obvious place is the symbology pane, why not have an option in the More menu to copy values to clipboard. The interface does not change because it just becomes another option in the little menu.

Another obvious place, and it blows my mind its not there, is in Data engineering!

You could right click on unique and have it copied, seems very obvious to me...

YES I know Summary statistics Tool essential creates that list of values but one is forced to run a geoprocessing tool, to create a dataset (even if it is in-memory). So many hoops to jump through when its clearly obvious that UI has already created that list and it is simply not exposed.

In the application options one should be able to choose if the separator between values is a tab/return/semi-colon or other character.

[ValeriaChavez]

Hi @DuncanHornby,

Thank you for submitting this Idea. I'm marking it as needs clarification as it's technically two ideas in one. To enable better tracking and ensure the right folks see these, would you mind splitting the Data Engineering portion of the Idea to a separate thread?

Thank you so much for being an active member of Esri Community! 

[DuncanHornby]

Hi Valeria,

Thanks for reviewing this idea but I don't see it as two ideas. For me its one idea (click on something and get the list of unique values copied to clipboard), I just identified two very obvious places where that list of values must have been built for the interface to be showing what it is showing. Ultimately I don't really care if it is from data engineering pane or the symbology pane but to me these seem the most easy-win places where a simple tweak to the UI can suddenly provide a really useful list of values that could be copied into some other application. ESRI have already done the hard work computing the list of unique values, they just need to add that last step of exposing a button/menu option that copies the values into clipboard.

[vojtastic_p]

I strongly support the idea of copying unique values (as simple text tab delimited table so Excel can directly accept it) from the Symbology pane (I don't know the Data engineering part of ArcGIS Pro).

I don't want to fill in and run the Summary Statistics tool when I can already see those values directly in the Symbology pane. Rows from the symbol class table can now even be selected and copied (Ctrl+C), but they are pasted into the notepad as empty tabs (why?). So it seems that this idea is almost implemented, just a little bit more to go!

If Esri needs clarification on this idea, let's stick with the first option (copy+paste from the Symbology Pane) so that this idea can move forward. 🙂

[DuncanHornby]

To build upon @vojtastic_p idea, he has suggested select > copy > paste from symbology pane. I was originally suggesting just the values but there are good reasons to want the labels to, but may be not always? I was definitely thinking the grabbing of the values would be a new option in the More menu. May be that could be expanded to values only or values & labels?