Latest Contributions by RandyMcGregor1

Is it possible to label linear features with text where the words can be spread out, but do not bend. The "regular" option doesn't bend words, but you can't spread them. In the example below, I'd like "Big" to be straight and "Pine" to be straight. I am using the 'Streets' option.  I swear I have been able to do this in the past. I am using maplex, ArcMap Advanced 10.7 Also, is there a "no upside down labels ever"? option. The "Big Pine" label was upside down and I had to make a separate layer form a segment of the loop and label that in order to prevent the upside down label maplex placed on the loop. I have checked and not found anything. Thank you, Randy McGregor ... View more

I'm getting into ArcGIS API for Python,and I have a general, hand-wavy kind of question. Why do layers sometimes have certain information and sometimes don't? For example, the "layerDefinition" object has a property called,"fields." https://developers.arcgis.com/web-map-specification/objects/layerDefinition/ In my code below, I can get a layer definition for a feature layer, but there is no "fields" attribute. I can get the field names through the popupInfo.fieldInfos property, but I'm confused by why the "fields" attribute just doesn't seem to be there. I won't go into details, but I'm finding the properties associated with objects are inconsistently available. I have another notebook that I had to add a few lines to test for the property because some objects had it and some didn't. All the same type object. It lists field names and ALL layers I was checking do have fields, some just didn't have that information in there JSON file and some did. If this question is too general, I can focus, but I think I'm missing a general concept and a (simple?) explanation would help me out. Thank you very much, Randy McGregor ... View more

I have a series of points, some of which are stacked on top of each other. I've created symbology and ordered it very specifically. This order is being ignored in the map. In desktop, I'd select "advanced symbol properties" and indicate that I wanted the symbols to appear in a certain order. When I select "advanced" in ArcGIS Pro, I do not see an option to control the order. Changing location in the symbol dialog pane has no effect on the order at which the symbols draw in the map. I want large symbols to draw underneath smaller ones, for example, but they refuse to respect my wishes. Any help sorting this out would be much appreciated. Randy McGregor ... View more