ArcGIS Pro Tips and Tricks - I share mine, you share yours
I recently saw a Twitter post (a tweet?) with this ArcGIS Pro tip: Nathan Shephard on Twitter: "Random @ArcGISPro tip - you can click the 'Selected Features' count lab...
And I thought to myself, "Well, we see these scattered about all over - wouldn't it be cool to find these in one place?" Wait, somebody must have already done this, right? So I did what I do with so many questions and I Googled it. You can do the same, but I figured I'd help by getting you started: Click here to Google "arcgis pro tips and tricks"
Indeed, we do in fact get a number of results. Like this one by James Sullivan is golden: http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/fed17/papers/fed_10.pdf I love how he calls out "hidden gems" and we see some convergence here with Nathan Shephard's tip from his Twitter post.
Instead of sifting through multiple Google results, and more importantly, to hear from YOU, ArcGIS Pro users in the wild, I wanted to create a place where we can all share our Pro tips and tricks.
I'll kick it off below with another one I learned just this week. We'll ask around the halls here and continue to post some favorites from the the ArcGIS Pro team, but I want to hear from you. Please post YOUR Pro tips and tricks.
Thank you for sharing!
Exploratory selection anyone? Try 'Display the interactive selection graphic' option, and drag your fixed selection size around the map to explore differences in number of features, etc. https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/mapping/navigation/selection-options.htm Combine with an open Attributes pane to supercharge your exploratory power!
My finding of the day: Batch Apply Symbology from layer
I am just in the course of producing lots of maps of what I call suitability layers (raster) that all have the same classification and are supposed to have the same symbology. I had already saved a layer file to have this symbology at hand but I didn't fancy applying this to each of my 20 layers manually through import so I thought "there must be an easier way!". And voilà: google spit out a technical article from Esri support that reminded me that most of the geoprocessing tools have a batch function (right-mouse click - I had totally forgotten about this) AND that there is a geoprocessing tool (who would have thought?!) called Apply Symbology from layer that allows to apply my saved symbology file to all my suitability layers at once. So cool!
Getting the settings right with the Apply Symbology From Layer—Data Management toolbox | Documentation tool can be a bit tricky depending on what you're trying to accomplish. To maintain the classification breaks, did you use the MAINTAIN option?
This will take some consideration if applying in batch...
