Latest Contributions by TomBole

Hi Brad,  This looks like a bug. A quick examination makes me believe that the Legend title, even when not displayed, is affecting the gap on the left.  I'll follow up on this and confirm that this is a bug. If you want want to track this issue please contact Esri Support. They can be contacted at https://support.esri.com/en/contact-tech-support. In the meantime, you should be able to create guides and snap the legend to position you want. Please see Page setup—Layouts | Documentation for more information. Thanks for the feedback,  Tom ... View more

Aaron, Regarding the managing the visibility of grid labels, ArcMap does NOT provide any functionality that is not available in ArcGIS Pro. I had assumed that with different pages in the map series you wanted different labels to display. For example, in created a map book with facing pages you may want the maps for “left side” pages to display the grid labels on the left side of the page, while for “right-side” pages you want the grid labels to display on the right side of the page. Neither ArcMap, not ArcGIS Pro provide this ability outside the box. You would have to use ArcPy. Perhaps this is not your workflow. Perhaps by “… orientation of grid labels” you are looking to have only the labels appear for the top and left side of the page. In ArcMap you would toggle the visibility of the Label Axes in the grid properties dialog like so: Here is an example of 2 map series pages of US states where Hawaii has a map rotation of 0 and California has a map rotation of 90. This can also be accomplished using ArcGIS Pro. If you are importing an MXD, like the one above, you will likely need to make some adjustments in Pro. For example, importing this MXD results in this for the California page. Obviously, this is not what it looks like in ArcMap. There is a reason for this. When this MXD is imported into ArcGIS Pro you should get a notification. Click the blue dot to see the notification. In this case there is a warning that modifications to the grid or graticule may be needed. In this case ArcGIS Pro is not reading the “Top, Left, Bottom, Right” settings. This concept is different in ArcMap than it is in Pro. With ArcMap, you are restricted to the 4 sides of a page. With Pro, this restriction is removed.  For instance, if you reshape a map or map frame so that there are more than 4 edges to the map ArcGIS provides a way to manage the labels for every edge.    For example, here is a reshaped map frame for Hawaii. There are 8 edges, along with 8 corners.  With ArcGIS Pro I can manages the grid labels for each. You CANNOT do this in ArcMap. Back to the map imported above, the first step is to define the map grid edges and preview them so we can see the edge numbers we want to work with. For illustration purposes I don’t have labels on in the screenshot. If it is the top and right edges of the map frame that I want to display labels I need to toggle the visibility for those edges. In this case I want to have the labels on for edges 1 and 1, and off for edges 3 and 4. From the Components tab in the Format Map Grid pane select Labels from the component list and under the Visible group click the Selected button. Depending on your map rotation values you may not want to toggle all of the “North”, “South”… labels.  In the example below edge 1 displays labels for both X and Y (Lat and Long).  In order to longitude labels along edge 1 I would toggle only “North” and “South”. For edge 2 I turned only “East” and “West” only. For more information on this please see MGRS grids—Layouts | Documentation - and search for "Define map grid edges". Hope this helps, Tom ... View more

Hi Aaron,  Currently map grid properties are not able to be configured for individual (or groups) of map series pages (unlike some map properties such as rotation and spatial reference). In order to achieve the affect you want you will need to create 2 separate layouts - one with the 90 degree rotation and one without and use ArcPy.mp to create the finished product Introduction to arcpy.mp—ArcPy | Documentation.   MapSeries—ArcPy | Documentation  Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more

Greg,  There is an idea on the idea site that you can comment on or vote you if you'd like - https://community.esri.com/ideas/2731 .  Tom ... View more

Hi Greg,  Currently, a single legend can only reference a single map (within map frame). If you have multiple maps on the layout you will need to add a legend item for each. Tom ... View more

Katie, The cache is project specific, though you can set cache properties for layers. I'm not even 100% sure that this will solve your problem, though it is worth a try. If you are still seeing a problem after clearing your cache this may be a bug and something that Tech support can help you with. Tom ... View more

Katie,  Have you tried clearing the local cache? From the help Set display options—Properties of maps | Documentation : To troubleshoot rendering issues, or otherwise free up disk space, you can delete the entire cache by checking Clear cache. The cache will be deleted once you click OK to close the Options dialog box, and the project will close and reopen. You can remove the visualization cache for a specific layer using the layer's cache properties; the existing cache for other layers will not be removed. You can request a redraw of the view by pressing the F5 key. This will draw from the cache and not invalidate it. You can also request a full refresh of the drawing cache (invalidating it rather than deleting it) by pressing Ctrl+F5. This might help. Tom ... View more

Hi Andrew,  I'm assuming that the source of your tables are "standalone" tables in the map since the Query option in the Format Table Frame pane is disabled. This happens when the table source is not spatial - like a standalone table.  You can still set a query on the standalone table so that it works with a map series.  You do this using Page query—Layouts | Documentation .  For example I have a map with a US states layer that drives a map series.  Each page is named by the field value for STATE_NAME. I also have a standalone table of cities and it also has a field STATE_NAME. I can set a Page Query on the cities table so that it only shows feature that match the current page. Here is a screenshot showing the page for Montana. I think this might be what you're looking for.  Hope it helps. Tom ... View more

Hi Kevin,  Looks like the text symbol used for the labels in the map are also being used by the text in the legend. I would suggest that you change the Text Symbol for all your legend items. 1. In the Contents pane right-click the Legend and open its properties to open the Format Legend pane. 2. Click the Options tab 3. Click the "Show properties..." button to open the Format Legend Item pane for ALL your legend items (layers). 4. Click Text Symbol 5. This is where you will apply properties to the text in the legend.  I would suggest starting by selecting one from the gallery that does not have a callout like the highway shield, such as one of the "Subtitle" symbols. Once you have the callout out of the way you can then change the text properties as you see fit. For more infor p[lease see Text symbol properties—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation  Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more

Hi Jessie,  Can you contact Esri Support with this issue? 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 Andrew,  This is a known issue - BUG-000128971. We are currently working on a fix for this issue. Tom ... View more

Hi Armando,  I'm not aware of any outstanding issues that affect the ability to display attachments in a layout. You may be running into a bug.  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

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Hi Alex,  I was able to exclude the "Human Geography" basemap layers successfully. I suspect that there may be an issue with the feature that you are using to clip the map. It is possible that there may be something wrong with the geometry of the clip feature. You may want to run the Check Geometry—Data Management toolbox | Documentation tool to see if you need to repair the layer's geometry.  If the layer is OK, then there is a separate issue. If this is the case, 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. Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more