Latest Contributions by JeremyDavies

@KoryKramer , as far as I can tell you can't apply color ramps to selected classes of classified raster data like you can with vector data. Is this under consideration, or if I have it wrong can you steer me toward some documentation on how to do this? As an example, say you have GEBCO data loaded and want marine areas to use a blue color scheme and land areas to use a brown one. I have many different ways I can accomplish this, like by using raster functions to create separate land vs marine rasters or by playing with the histograms of copies of the layer in the TOC, but it would be great to be able to do it within the symbology pane like you can with vector data. Here's a simplified example, where I would select and apply a blue color scheme to the classes in the blue box, and then would apply a different color scheme to the classes in the yellow box. Thanks! ... View more

I second this request as I often find myself struggling to place description text in a way that optimizes legibility. ... View more

@KoryKramer  I'm wondering if there is a way to do this for all of the features in a layer in one shot. Like if you have 40 polygons and want the fill and outline to be the same color for each feature, but where you want the fill to be transparent and the outline to be opaque.  Sure you could do that where you change the transparency of the fill for each feature, but that is not efficient if you have a lot of features. You can also apply a color ramp to both the fill and outline in the symbology pane, duplicate the layer, remove the fill for all symbols in the topmost layer, and then tweak the layer transparency for each of the two layers accordingly. You end up something like the screen grab below (which needs tweaking), where the internal division colors match the general polygon color so you can see they are subsets of the broader area. For example, showing state house of rep boundaries within larger senate districts. This is a solid workaround, but it'd be cool to be able to do this with the layer symbology in one shot, where you can control the fill and outline transparencies independently of each other for all features at once. Hope that makes sense!     ... View more

This is super helpful-- thank you Owen! ... View more

D_AnneHammond-- It didn't start working for me until I updated to 3.0.3, and so far so good. Hopefully updating Pro will work for you too! ... View more

After years of needing to use ArcCatalog alongside Pro to index and search for spatial data on my machine, indexing is now working for me in v3.0.3. Yay! Hopefully updating to 3.0.3 was the ticket and indexing starts working for for others as well. ... View more

With each new software update I hold out hope that esri will resolve this issue, but alas I still get the old 'Indexing is in progress' message whenever I search catalog in Pro. I've tried everything I can think of, and esri support has not offered a solution yet either. Ugh. ... View more

Thanks for posting your solution, Jeff, but alas it did not work for me. I'm pretty sure I've tried every combination of turning things on and off, restarting, deleting old indexes (which are always 0 to a couple of KB in size), and esri support even had me do a clean install of Pro. Nothing has worked so far. Until there is a solution, I guess I'll need to install the old Desktop Catalog for searching for data that live in geodatabases. Although its not optimal, I can always search for shapefiles via Windows File Explorer. ... View more

Argh! Search in Pro has been working for a while after one of the recent updates, but I'm back to the same "indexing is in progress" messages with searches now with 3.0.0. I can use windows explorer to search for shapefiles by name, but not for data buried in geodatabases. And I don't have the patience to call support and have them walk me through rebuilding the index or even doing a clean install, as that has done nothing to fix the problem in the past. And I am just using Pro now, so I can't go back to Desktop Catalog for searches. Sorry for the rant, but this is so frustrating! ... View more

I had the same issue, where labels would not show up in a scene if the symbology for the fill and outline were set to 'no color', even if the labels for the exact same layer layer were visible in a 2D map. Changing either the fill or outline to having color in the scene, even if set to 100% transparent, fixed the labeling problem. Strange behavior, but it works. Thanks for the tip, Jeanette! ... View more

Having experienced incredibly slow exports of layouts with all versions of Pro (now on 2.8.3), even with all data being local, I decided to see how a python export script performed. In this particular case, it was just taking a few  minutes to export via the GUI and not twenty (although I've had it take even longer with complex layouts!), but still painfully slow. I did a bunch of tests, and here are the average export times for this particular layout: Export time via the Pro GUI: 2 minutes 55 seconds Export time via the Python window: 22 seconds So Python was 8x faster! And when I experimented with some exports of maps with raster data (heat maps), the difference was even more pronounced-- almost 3 minutes vs 12 seconds. I guess I'll be digging in to python export options for a bit, at least until the Pro GUI can handle exporting my layouts in a more timely fashion. Here is the code I used: aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("CURRENT") for lyt in aprx.listLayouts("TestLayout"): lyt.exportToJPEG("C:\...\Maps\PythonExport_HeatMap", 200) ... View more

Being able to set transparency for logos and other layout graphic features will be a welcome addition-- glad to see this is in the product plan! As a workaround I created multiple png versions of our logo in illustrator, each with different levels of opacity for the actual logo/text, and I set the background transparent. I can then place the version with the appropriate level of transparency in any given layout. It's a bit of a pain and takes some trial and error, but it works! @AubriOtis @KoryKramer @KevinStandage  ... View more

I just figured out that the NEW map viewer allows you to display photos uploaded via Survey123 directly in popups, so problem solved! Now I just need figure out the code needed to exclude the filename of the images, as that's a bit of a distraction. But that's a different topic... ... View more