Latest Contributions by TomBole

@EkaterinaRumenova  So sorry for the late reply.  Currently displaying related data in a map series is not supported. There is an enhancement request on the Ideas site - Dynamic Text from Relationship Classes. Please feel free to add a comment.  Tom ... View more

Hi @GayleNeufeld  Though some users are more comfortable with the "wizard" experience ArcMap provided for grids and graticules there were fundamental issues and limitations with this approach in supporting all the various types of grids (MGRS, custom, etc...) and in incorporating new functionality. A new approach was needed. We understand that a number of users find using the formatting tags cumbersome. Grids are complicated. There are a multitude of variables to consider.  Designing an easy-to-use UI that is also robust, supports even the most complicated grid arrangements and allows for customization is no small task. The good news is all the functionality that a UI would expose is already there.  The bad news is you will have to work with tags, however, you do not have to become a coding expert in order to make a change.  You want your labels to display in Decimal Degrees. The first two examples  in the help topic Work with grid label tags are for Decimal Degrees. To use either of these you can copying the tags right from the help and pasting it over the current tags in your existing grid.  I've also included the tags here: <dyn type="grid" units="dd" decimalPlaces="3" zeroPad="True" showDirections="True" directionSeparator=" "/> <dyn type="grid" units="dd" decimalPlaces="3" zeroPad="True" showDirections="False" showSymbol="False"/> Once you have a grid you like saving this to a style so you can reuse your grid for other layouts. Saving to a style is covered at the end of this tutorial - Tutorial: Work with a graticule. By creating styles from your most common grid configurations you should find your workflow as efficient as it was in ArcMap. Hope this helps, Tom ... View more

Hi @KanjMadi1 ,  I think you can accomplish what you want by setting constraint on the inset/overview map frame and set the intersecting layer to be the "big plot" layer.   Here is an example using US State as the "bigger" polygon layer and US counties as the "smaller" polygons. The map series index layer is the smaller polygon counties layer. In the layout the "main" map frame - which sets the extent for each country feature - is at the top and the inset/overview map frame is at the bottom as you can see in the following screenshot. The element pane (right side of the screenshot) shows the map constraint properties for this map frame. "Bigger polygons" is the name I used for US States.  As you can see this layer is being used as an intersecting layer. When I export to PDF I get this result. I think this is the kind of result you are looking for.  Here is the a link to map frame constraints help. Here is the pertinent part of the help. Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more

Creative workaround!  Well done! ... View more

Sorry for the confusion. Layout graphics, or other layout elements, cannot be sandwiched between map layers. They can only be sandwiched between other layout elements (ex: legend, scale bar, etc...). The map frame is a layout element. It is the container for the map.   Another way of thinking about this is the "space" that each element resides in.  Map layers and graphics reside in geographic space (measured in decimal degrees, meters, feet...), while layout elements reside in page space (measured in inches, MM, points). Though you can view both spaces when viewing a layout - you can only interact with the geographic space when you activate a map frame. When the map frame is not active you are working in page space. Currently there is no way to convert elements/graphics from one space to the other. Tom ... View more

Hi @DavidSolari  Currently, map graphics and layout graphics are independent. There is no way to copy one from the other. Also, the drawing order of map features and graphics in a layout is contained in the map frame. You can only order the drawing of the map frame (and all within) as whole with other layout elements. You cannot specify parts of the map (ex: graphics) to draw "outside" of the map frame. If you want map graphics to draw on top of layout elements, but want to the other parts of the map (ex: features, basemap) to draw below the layout elements you will need to create separate layout graphics. Hope this helps. Tom  ... View more

Hi @SarahRijneke  I've confirmed that dynamic layout elements do honor layer clipping. Since the "extra" features are right along the edge of the clip shape, my guess is that the symbology of the points intersect with the edge of the clip shape and are counted as being in view. To confirm this you can set the border symbol of the clip to 0 and do a page zoom (not a map zoom) into the area of interest. You may find that features, or part of the symbol, are visible. For example, in the screenshots below I have 2 point layers with the same geometry. One is clipped (masked) while the other is not.  There is a legend that shows the count of features visible in the map frame. Here you see that there are 3 "Masked" features. I've moved a feature to the edge of the outside of the clip shape (highlighted in yellow). The number of visible "Masked" features has increased and is now 4.  At first glance it appears that this feature is not visible and that the visible feature count reported by the legend is incorrect. However, if I zoom into the page (not the map), I see a sliver of the "blue star" symbol of the "Masked" layer. If the symbol is visible, even if very small, it counts.   Currently there is no way to set a tolerance level for how much of the symbol needs to be visible to be counted. As a work around I would suggest copying the tree location layer into a new layer with a symbology of 1 point in size. I would place this layer at the bottom of the layer order so that it would not draw on top of any other layer. I would use this layer to derive my count. This should help in most of these edge cases. Hope this helps. Tom ... View more

Hi @SarahRijneke  It is possible that the extra10 features in the count are features that are on the edge of the map frame, maybe "hidden" by the border of the map frame, and were not selected.  To troubleshoot try setting the map frame border to 0.  See if you have tree features along the edge.  You may also use the dynamic text "Values" and list the ID of the visible features and compare this to the the features you see in the map frame (you may need to turn on the labels for the layer). It it is still a mystery you may be running into a bug.  If so, we would need more information to properly troubleshoot. Hope this helps, Tom  ... View more

Hi @AngelRomoSandoval  This looks like a bug. I'm not aware of a similar issue. It may be specific to your data/workflow. 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

@CordulaGöke - As I stated in my reply it appears that you are running into 2 issues: (1) the TOC/legend is not showing changes you make in the Symbology pane and (2) when you export a layout the legend in the exported file does not match what you see in the layout view. You have found a work around to issue (2) by using ArcPy to export.   Please let me know if I have misunderstood your posts. Unfortunately, given the current information I have to work with, I cannot reproduce either issue with my own steps/data. Reproducible steps to recreate the problem are needed in order for the programmer to debug the code and come up with a solution. Seeing a problem posted on Community is not enough. We have to be able to reproduce the problem. Otherwise, we are just guessing. Community is not a bug tracking system. Sometimes an issue reported on Community is easy to reproduce and an internal bug can be logged. However, many issues require a better and deeper understanding of the details involved in the issue (what are the steps taken before encountering the issue, what is the data being used, what renderer is being used for the layer, is there scale dependencies involved, etc... there can be many variables).  I'm sorry that you have had a frustrating experience with support, but they are better equipped to process bugs and I would encourage you to contact them concerning these issues. Tom ... View more

Hi @CordulaGöke  I'm glad you found a workaround. It looks like you are seeing multiple issues. First, you state that after you changed the symbology labels you only saw part of the change in the TOC (Contents pane) and in the legend (on the layout). This indicates a possible problem between the symbolizer (renderer) and the Contents pane and not with the legend - that is the legend is just inheriting the problem. I'm not aware of any outstanding issue like this and would need more information. 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. Lastly, it looks like you are running into an export issue where the exported legend does not match the legend visible in the layout view on screen. This class of issue is well known. In order not to "freeze" ArcGIS Pro during an export a temporary copy of the layout is created on the fly. We have found that in some cases information gets dropped in the copying process. Exporting via ArcPy works around this issue. I tried to reproduce the exporting issue you describe by making some changes in the Symbology pane. Unfortunately, I was unable to reproduce the problem. The issue may specific to your data and workflow. Again, Esri Support would be the proper place to pursue this further. Hope this helps, Tom ... View more

Hi Zachary,  I'm unaware of any outstanding issues with a map frame being unable to draw a map that is clipped. I did a quick test on Pro 3.2.1 and was able to clip a basemap layer to the outline of California. As you can see the map frame (on the right) shows the clipped map just as it is in the map view (on the left). @BarryNorthey provides a good suggestion to make sure that the extent of the map frame includes the clipped area.  Another thing you can do is to exclude one of the base layers (such as a basemap layer) to use as reference in order to make sure your map frame extent is correct. You may be running into a legitimate bug, but we would need specific steps/data to reproduce what you're seeing.  If you think this is 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

Glad I could help. The issue was familiar because I've done the same many, many times.  ... View more