Graphic Tab not displaying when in Layout View with active Map Frame

[dribrats]

I'm using ArcGIS Pro 3.3 and I'm running into an inconsistent issue about 50% of the time. When I activate a Map Frame from within a Layout view, I don't have access to the 'Graphic' tab, so I can't manipulate the graphics in the map. The 'Graphic' tab just won't display when I'm in a layout view with active map frame. I can do everything else you would expect to be able to do within that map frame, like pan and zoom the map, but the 'Graphic' tab just doesn't display. Any ideas?

[dribrats · Accepted solution]

Well, I think I've determined that this is a bug and should be reported as such. Apparently this issue only arises when the map was imported from an MXD (ArcMap document). A quick fix to the issue is to add a new graphics layer to the map. This will prompt ArcGIS Pro to display the 'Graphics' tab. Then you can delete the new empty graphics layer and the 'Graphics' tab will resume functioning as it should. It's as if ArcGIS Pro doesn't detect that a graphics layer exists in an imported map until a new graphics layer is added to that map. Problem solved.

[ODWC_GIS]

Just Discovered, Thanks to You ~ An Alternate Workaround:

• Activated Map in a Layout (no visible Graphics tab)
• Insert > Point Map Notes
• Activated Map in a Layout (Graphics tab NOW VISIBLE)

It just showed up as soon as I added the empty Map Notes thing.
...looks like I'll be doing this to all my maps now, each session.

[Wayne_Rennick]

Thanks for the work around. 

But I'm having the same issue in a project I've created from scratch in Pro.

[WStreet]

I am using 3.3.1 and also having this issue.  I get the Graphics Layer tab but not the graphics tab.  It seems like when I first covert my labels to graphics, it will work but after a while, it will just stop.  I really makes final cartography difficult.

[WStreet]

Ok, I feel a bit like an idiot but it is also a behavior that I would consider to be unexpected.  If I activate the map frame but the map frame is locked, it prevents selection of graphics.  I haven't checked all my layouts but I checked it in a couple in this project.