HTML Tag Support in Page Layouts for Map Documents
It would be very helpful if you could render HTML inside a map document in order to create tables, links, etc..
So say I wanted to render a table in my MXD page layout as such:
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>row 1, cell 1</td>
<td>row 1, cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 2, cell 1</td>
<td>row 2, cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
I would get a table with my data in it as such:
Right now the text element just ignores the HTML tags at ArcGIS 10 SP3
I have been working on and off with QGIS for several years, and there you have a possibility to use HTML in the layout to produce tables and dynamic text in an orderly and nice manner. In ArcGIS Pro you don't have this possibility.
A quick video that shows how this is implemented in QGIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vWTRWCJYV8
This is also kind of equivalent with AutoCAD blocks in layout.
(image from youtube video mentioned above)
The ide:
Add a layout element that lets you use HTML to create tables with dynamic text.
Why:
We often need to use map series to create hundreds of similar pages with defined setup which earlier where done with layouts in AutoCAD. The costumers therefore expect a "standardized" table with information. This is really cumbersome to create in ArcGIS Pro.
This is not the same as showing the attribute table, as it need to be colspan/rowspan possibilities.
