Latest Contributions by TimLangner

When I have selected a font in ArcGIS Pro symbology and I then go to select another, it takes me to the top of the list. I find I have to keep scrolling down every time just to get to the next font. A fair bit of the time I am going through various character fonts to see if they are suitable so being placed at the top of the list each time is rather annoying and certainly not user friendly. It doesn't happen this way in ArcMap. I guess i might be able to go back to using ArcMqp. ... View more

I tried to to change wonership of some items but it said because they were shared with a group with update capabilties, I couldn't unshare them. I went to the items sharing properties and the only items on offer were to unshare from organisation and everyone. I did this but still in the sharing list it had the group. However the group didn't appear in this list of things to unshare from? Where would I find the option to unshare from the group? I eventually resolve it my removing the member of the group but what would I have done if I didn't wish that member to leave the group? ... View more

I am working with a shapefile and need to add a new field with a precision and scale. When I open the attribute table add click add field, I can then add a new field. However when I select, double the precision field and scale are both set to 0 and grayed out. I set the umber formate to numeric but that didn't make any difference. I eventually went into ArcMap 10.5 and ArcCatalog and was able to add the field, with a precision and scale of 31 and 15 respectively. However that then reverted back to 0 0. ... View more

I started using ArcGIS Pro 2.0 recently for the first time. What are other peoples experiences of working with imported ArcMap documents in ArcGIS Pro ? I have hit an issue relating to the converting of labels to annotations. I created a new project and imported an ArcMap document it into it. I create a vector grid in ArcMap 10.5 using GT Wizard and I added the grid to the ArcGIS Pro project and then labelled the grid. I converted the grid labels to annotations but nothing seemed to get created in the annotation groups or if it did, nothing was being displayed. I also go no error message UK Technical support suggested create a new map layout. Once I did that and dragged the layers across to it, the convert to annotation worked, This suggests a problem with the map layout, with came from an ArcMap document. Has anyone else experienced these kinds of problems? ... View more

I packaged an ArcGIs Pro project yesterday and it took over an hour. This seemed excessively long. All it had in it was 26 layers, including 4 annotation groups. Each layer contained hardly any features. The total file size was about 43.6MB. Some of the layers were on an imported ArcMap document. I am using a dell i7 laptop with 16GB of RAM so it's at the optimum level as recommended by ESRI. Talking with UK support, they said an hour was probably about right. Should it really take this long? Kind regards Tim ... View more

It would be really helpful if the ArcGIS Pro documentation had screenshots, especially as it's layout and build is quite different to the ArcMap part of ArcGIS desktop. Also is ArcGIS Pro part of ArcGIS Desktop, as I don't see an option in the ArcGIS Ideas section that mentions ArcGIS Pro? Hence I selected ArcGIS Desktop. ... View more

It would be useful if I could add a represenative fraction as dynmaic text so I can then include this in sentances. My work around is to set the representative scale to match the represenrtative fraction and use that. The alternative is not to display an RF at all or to type it in manually. ... View more

Hi there I'm trying to copy a road centre line so that I have a left and right footway. This is in a file geodatabase but the centre road lines come originally from an ArcSDE database. To do this I am using copy parallel as it needs to be linked to an Excel Spreadsheet and representations only work with feature classes. Previously I had managed to do this. Today I was about to do the right hand side and create a feature class with the attributes preserved. However when I tried to do the same to the left hand side I could not get the attributes to come across. As soon as I select more than one line, the option, Treat section as a single line is greyed out. However if it's not possible to have this option available when select multiple lines,  how come I was able to get the right hand side to be created with the attribute information intact. I am using ArcMap 10.0 but I tired it in version 10.3.1 and I'm having the same issues. Also ArcMap 10.0 kept crashing without errors. I think the issue occurs when a line length becomes less than 0. I found this didn't occur in version 10.3.1 and I actually got an error message. Although that didn't explain what was causing the issue. However at least I didn't need to restart ArcMap, which at times can be a slow process on my computer. I was thus able to find the offend row and deal with it manually. However the attributes issue was still present for everything else. Thanks for your help Tim ... View more

It would be really helpful a report could be generated of all stlyes and properties that make up the smybols in use in an ArcMap document. So a character symbol would have: font name size colour percentages off set details and everything else related. ... View more