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Symbology - changing the Value should NOT update the Label

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05-23-2011 05:10 PM
Status: In Product Plan
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StephenLead
Honored Contributor

In Graduated Color or Graduated Symbol symbology, ArcMap allows you to set the Label to read whatever you want, rather than exactly what is shown in the Values column.

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The problem is that the slightest change to ANY value in the Range column completely obliterates all of the other labels, potentially wasting a huge amount of time.

Eg, if I change the first Range value to be 250001 this is the result:

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The logic should be that the Label is set to the Range when the Classification is first set (including on layer creation) but thereafter, any changes to the Label field are made by the user only, not automatically.

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AllenDailey1

It's interesting to see that this post was written in 2011!!  I'm really curious as to whether any action is happening related to this?  I hope so.

Before I came across this post, I had already posted my own "Idea" about this issue, which is here, just FYI:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/symbology-add-a-button-to-opt-out-of-automatically/id...

 

EdiePunt
Status changed to: In Product Plan
 
RTPL_AU

When you have created a complex manual interval with custom label entries symbology and you change one interval value, Pro resets every label back to defaults and not just the changed interval.

Simple example

Custom symbology:

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Dare to change one value:

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Now I have to redo all the legend labels.