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Domains - add a button to allow only unique values to be shown in Select by attributes and symbology.

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12-08-2025 05:56 AM
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KimberlyWinter
Emerging Contributor

Please can you fix the way domains show up in arcgis pro on field calculator and for symbology. I only need the unique values of the data I am working with to be displayed not the entire list of items in the domain. 

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HollyTorpey_LSA

Do you mean that you only want to see the domain values that actually exist as attributes in your table and not the entire list of possible/unused domain values? If so, I agree. It should be a checkbox at the top of the symbology category list ("Only include current values" or something).

As an example, the screenshot below is of an exported subset of our Arborist data collection template. This exported feature class has only two features, but if I symbolize on the Species field, which has hundreds of domain values, it tries to create classes based on the entire domain list, not the values in the Species field for the two features in the feature class. It would be very helpful if we could opt to symbolize on current unique values in the table OR on domain values (since sometimes we want our symbology to include all possibilities because features are still being added).

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For the field calculator, it already exists. Just choose from the Current Values section at the top of the Insert Values list. 

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KimberlyWinter
 Thanks for your response, you are correct, I was hoping to see the domain values that actually exist as attributes in the table and not the entire list of possible/unused domain values.
 
Like you say it's mostly a problem for editing the 'Symbology' but also 'Select by Attributes' both of which come up with every option within the domain and not just the catergories observed within the dataset.
HollyTorpey_LSA

Oh yes, that's a good point (or a pain point, more accurately).