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Idea: Add groupings in styles based on categories

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10-25-2023 12:02 PM
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leahmaps
Occasional Contributor II

Hello!

I am currently making a custom style and noticed something that could be of good use.

When you add a new style, you can place a category.

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Right now, the only way I see categories showing up is when you hover over the polygon, and useable in the search bar

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It would be great if, in the symbology pane, your categories would help break down the symbology styles into subheadings. Here is a (very poorly made) sample of how this could look. By adding a second indent with a collapsable arrow, it would be very easy to organize and have a few custom styles.

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I find this particularly desired because it would make it easy to make a style with many symbols easy to search for without the bar. This way, if I need something for a certain division, I can simply find that drop-down and see my choices!

Thank you for considering!

 

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MErikReedAugusta

I feel like something very like this existed back in the ArcGIS Desktop days, and it surprises me that it doesn't seem to (or is hiding someplace) in the allegedly more-advanced ArcGIS Pro.

leahmaps

@MErikReedAugusta I felt like I had seen it before somewhere, too. The strange thing is that filling out the category and tags are essentially for the same thing - which is search. I would think that category would group them in the symbology pane to make things easier to find, and tags would be for searching.