Pro 2.4 labels with River Placement don't draw correctly in vector tile package

[JacksonTrappett]

We've had a vector basemap that we create vector tiles for using Pro, and have for several versions.  When we upgraded from 2.3 to 2.4, it broke the label placement in our vector tiles on our river polygons.  They look fine in the Pro map, but when we build the vector tiles they come out straight, rather than following the river polygon.

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Does anyone know of a workaround for this until ESRI can get it fixed?

[JacksonTrappett · Accepted solution]

I wanted to revisit this - ESRI logged this as a bug (#BUG-000125329) in Pro 2.4 and has fixed the issue as of 2.6 so it no longer occurs.

If you are still on 2.4, there is a workaround provided by ESRI Tech support:

1. Set the river placement setting from the label class pane.
2. Right-click the layer from the Content pane and select Labeling Properties.
3. Set up all the label setting from the pane.

I tested this workaround and it did work properly.