Combining Entries with Duplicate Symbology in Legend

[KyleKramer]

Hello all,

I am trying to create a legend in my layout that pulls together several layers with matching symbology. For analysis and quick visualization purposes, I have created multiple features that are all showing different categories of the same thing, in this case different classes of roads and their speed limits. For the symbology, I have designated each speed limit as the same color (i.e. 20 mph = green, 25 mph = blue, etc.) across all these layers, which are in a group. This looks fine on the map, but when I show these layers on the legend, it repeats the same label for each different layer, as follows:

I have tried only showing a few layers in the legend to avoid this duplication, but none of the layers have all of the different speed limit categories I am trying to show in the legend. Is there a way to have the legend just display the symbol and label for each entry once? Any recommendations for other workarounds? Thank you!

[TomBole · Accepted solution]

Hi @KyleKramer 

There is no option in the UI that combines legend classes across layers. If you do not need a "dynamic" legend, that is one that updates automatically, I would suggest converting the legend to graphics and manually deleting redundant elements. The Concert to Graphics command is available off the context menu of the Legend. 

Hope this helps,

Tom

[JesseWickizer]

In cases like this I create a separate layer that's only used for the legend has the classes I'm interested in seeing in the legend. Then I add a definition query that won't return any features so it won't draw duplicate features on the map. If I'm not displaying the layer name in the legend I usually name it with something obvious to me like "FOR LEGEND ONLY" to keep things straight.