Latest Contributions by TomBole

I am unaware of any change to the status of OLE Object support in ArcGIS Pro.  I'll pass along your comments, however, we don't normally look to the comments posted in Questions to identify and prioritize development projects. We use the Ideas site to do this since it has an easy mechanism to gauge how many people are interested in the idea. Here is a link to the associated Idea where you can add comments and upvote - https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/insert-of-office-objects-word-documents-pdf-in/idi-p/927886. Tom ... View more

Having a reproducible case is vital to fixing bugs. As far as I know we do not have a reproducible case in house in which to investigate this further. Can you contact Esri Support?  They can be contacted at https://support.esri.com/en/contact-tech-support. ... View more

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Hi @FredMitchell  We currently do not have plans to add Map Series/Element Filtering (based on map series page) this year. This is definitely an interesting idea and one that we would like to get feedback from people like yourself on what the expectations would be. There is an existing idea you may want to add to - Map Series Page Editing. Feel free to add your comments to this idea, or if you think this idea is not the same, to enter a new one. Thanks for the feedback,  Tom ... View more

This may be a bug.  Without more information it would be extremely difficult to troubleshoot through this forum.  Can you contact Esri Support? They are better equipped to handle troubleshooting steps and gather bug data. They can be contacted at https://support.esri.com/en/contact-tech-support. Thanks, Tom ... View more

Hi Tim,  You should be able to reopen the layout the same way you reopen a map. In the Catalog pane you should see a node "Layouts" a few items below "Maps". Expand "Layouts" and double click the layout you want to see. Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more

Hi Brooke,  Not sure why the 1 key override is not working for you. I'm not aware of anything specific that would keep this from working.  To keep the map frame extent fixed try setting a map frame constraint.  Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more

Yes, they are objects, however, as I stated before, they "live" in completely different spaces. Graphics on a layout page "live" in page space where the units are inches, points, etc... Map graphics "live" in map, or geographic, space which is likely to to have a map projection and the graphic may also have a reference scale attached to it - properties that do not make any sense in page space. The copy/paste procedure needs to take these differences into account.  This is not a trivial thing to do. ... View more

Hi @CayerA ,  There is no way I'm aware of to reposition custom grid labels as you describe. Grid ticks and labels are dependent on the point of intersection of either gridlines or features (custom grid) and the map frame edge or a clipped map. The label will be placed close to that intersection. You might want to consider creating neighbor labels using dynamic text instead. Using the GeoProcessing tool Calculate Adjacent Fields new fields and values for the neighboring pages (polygons) are calculated. Here is the output for US States. If there is no adjacent polygon in the specified direction the value is empty. You can then use Dynamic text to display these values on the layout. In the image below I've inserted a text element above the map frame to show the value of the polygon to the North of the current page (map series index polygon). These text elements are dynamic and will update for each map series page. Hope this helps. Tom ... View more

Here are some links that you may find helpful in answering your questions: Creating Accessible PDFs in ArcGIS Pro (esri.com) Export to PDF—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation Whether or not you are losing anything by not having them is dependent on who the end user is of the PDF(s) your creating. Are they sight-impaired? If so, you might need the tags.    ... View more

Hi @ScottSweet2  Sorry you are running into an issue.  I'm currently unaware of any known issues concerning the "Hard light" blend option. I just tested with a map background and a basemap hill shade (ArcGIS Map Service) and saw no issue.  It is likely that the issue is specific to the layers and properties in your (and other's) map. Without knowing these details and being able to reproduce the issue you describe there is very little help I can offer. Can you contact Esri Support? They are better equipped to handle troubleshooting steps and gather bug data. They can be contacted at https://support.esri.com/en/contact-tech-support. Thanks,  Tom ... View more

Great suggestion @MichaelRobb2 . You are correct - not all organizations will update. Python is a good option.  Thanks for adding this to the post.  ... View more