In ArcMap you could define Data Driven Pages in a map and use it to pan to locations, and use the associated scale variables, page queries, etc to show/hide things as you go from location to location to edit/view things.
For some editing or checking tasks this is a significant efficiency booster.
Using Pro Pro Plus (i.e. a good fruit salad, not just apples) how would you replicate this behaviour in a map?
I've had some ideas but nothing seems to work as good. Generating a pile of bookmarks is what is usually raised in conversations but that doesn't have the associated filters, easy single click to next spot, scale from a field that you can edit, etc?
You can load the attribute table, select an object then CTRL-N to pan to it.
There are Ideas around the topic but they don't seem to get a lot of traction.
Do people have good ways to work around the pro limitations or is this use case not all that common?
A good scenario is to have a 100 drillholes where you want to check/update something based on imagery/other data that needs visual confirmation. Load ArcMap, set DDP to use the collar table, load your imagery service/data layers, place the DDP toolbar in a convenient spot, and start clicking. A few minutes later you've run through the whole dataset.
Scenario B is to capture rural infrastructure (sheds) near a place. Create a screen/scale appropriate set of polygons (there's a GP tool for it), set up ddp, add your point data capture layer, and quickly pan from screen sized search zone to the next and drop your dots when you see anything relevant. Complete large areas in minutes rather than hours with a fraction of the mouse movements/clicks needed in Pro.
Pro: Using Pan To selection (CTRL-N) is useful but count the total clicks/keystrokes to achieve the same outcome. You don't have the page query thing, etc. though.
The ArcMap DDP toolbar's ability to work is not affected by which pane/window/dock/ribbon/etc you have active. In Pro, if you have the map active and you hit CTRL-N you get the New Project Window. So click the attribute table, select the next feature, do CTRL-N, click in the map, click.....
Oh Schucks - you've got to click the Create Feature object type again because Pro got distracted. Click in the map where you want an object, click the next spot where you need a point, click the AT. Select the next row item, hit CTRL-N, click back to the map, repeat. I'm not mentioning editing attributes as that is a big 'depends' for both camps.
Save your work, zoom out and check. Fiddlesticks. Pro ignored one of your new features as it sometimes does. It seems to think the first click is you making 100% sure the map is active rather than just dropping a point and not overthinking it as ArcMap does.
10 years is a long time for something to still be called new.
I should use that to describe my wife's car when I try to sell it. "New car, 2015 model, good paint, new tires, new tint".....
