I was building a map and adding a legend in Layout View when I clicked on the Preview button to see the legend set up. The map went blank and I can not get it back. When I switch to Data view it's there but not in Layout view. I've tried to open other maps up in Layout View and those too are not visible. I'm assuming I clicked on something but can't find what it is to make my maps appear in Layout View
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- By any chance do you have layer transparencies set on some raster data? I am experiencing something similar. Basically, if a layer has even a transparency of 1%, it dissappears in layout mode. THis was never an isse in 9.3 so I'm wondering what changed.
Mark - I couldn't figure it out so I closed the map, then ArcGIS and came back the next day and have had no issues since. I'll chalk it up to inexperience.
SW - I can see my map in data view, but not in layout view. I am not in toggle draft mode, and have done nothing with transparencies. I can see other maps that I open in layout view, just not the one I need right now! I can't figure it out.
- I'm with Frenchy1251. I have a map with data driven pages and added a couple of layers (not fc, rather the layers that point to data in gdbs). Now nothing displays in lay out view. No borders, data, legend. nothing but a white screen. Anyone know what the bug might be?
- In addition to my previous comment, I have turned ArcMap off and back on, copied the map to a new version from ArcMap, and turned computer off and back on before turning arcMap on and opening map doc. No luck.
Guess I will start the map over from a previous version. - Yeah this is a problem I can tell by the other comments here. I must state, IT IS NOT that the data disappears, it is just so small you cant see it, it is generally placed at the bottom a little left of center, you can highlight it by clicking a blank spot and dragging over the area, then you can resize it. Every time I start a new map, I cannot view it in layout view. If I import a map already made, IE a map exercise from my college level class or from the esri training, It will show in layout with no problems. If I start a new map it will have this problem.
Of the method of clicking and dragging to highlight the map, not all the data will show. Generally only a shapefile will show. If I have point data, it will not be represented on the map. HELP!!
If I go into the layout toolbar and "change layout" to a blank map, it will crash even if there is not data loaded into the map. This is a problem which I am not very satisfied with experiencing. Please help. - I can get my Texas counties to show, however the point data from two layers from different sources will not show. They are all projected properly in the same coordinate system. Please help still a problem.
- Yes I am experiencing the same issues with the layout view. Data does not display.
Rog - Hey Rog!
Yes, This is a problem I have experienced aswell and still experience today. However, I have found a way to bypass it. If you open a map (.mxd) that has already been created by someone else, then delete all the layers in the file, you can then save the map as a generic map document. For some reason, the student version I have will not allow me to create a map, but using this method I can bypass this. Just open up the blank generic MXD and immediately do a "save as" what ever the file name should be. Then you can work without having to worry about the layout view not showing. Works flawlessly. Just be sure change the dataframe properties with regards to the projection. Hope this helps. If you need a blank map, just do a free module offered by ESRI and swipe a map from their data.
-Boone Jardot
p.s. I have worked with ESRI tech support on this and they seem to think there is nothing wrong. They told me I have a corrupt MXD, which is hard to believe since this happens every time I start a blank map from scratch. - One last thing, In addition to my above comment^^. I forgot to mention an even more basic and easier way. When you start a new map, before you enter any data, instead of selecting "blank map", be sure and choose a layout template. This is actually the cause of this problem. If this does not work, for sure my above comment will. I hope someone finds this post useful. Good luck-Boone Jardot
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This is an old post, but in case anyone is still having this problem (or encounters this problem), you will notice that in data view you can see your map/data, but in layout view it's gone. If this happens, don't try and ajdust the map scale or zoom in/out, simply click on layout view at the bottom of the display, then right click on the display screen and then click on Full Extent (it has the globe icon next to it). This should bring your map/data into full view on the display screen. Do this everytime your layout disappears. Works everytime!
Thanks for re-posting the solution! I've been trying to get the layout view back for hours - tried everything I knew - even did a reinstall. Such a simple fix.
Kelly: I read a solution. If your data disappears once you are in layout view right click on the layout and select full extent. However, when I tried to do it and right-click on the layout there was not full extent icon. I also tried to go to the full extent icon outside layout view and didn't work either. I manage a computer lab with ArcGIS 10.2.2 and Business Analyst, and the behavior seems random but it is there for several computers. So, I am back to the same problem.
More suggestions?
This solution worked. Thank you!
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If it is a projection issue or if there are features in the map which are literally one the other side of the world then you'll get a lot of 'negative space'. Check you scale. If it is less than 1: many millions then try the following.
While in Layout view.
Go to the table of contents and right click on one of the layers.
Open up the Attributes of a particular layer (perhaps a polygon such one that delineates a boundary) that you are using and then select one (or more) of the records.
Right click on the this and then choose Zoom to Selected.
Zoom out.
This keeps happening to me when I attempt to print my layout view. The whole page seems to disappear. If I click on the dataframe and choose select all elements, then choose zoom to selected elements I find my map data at 2% on the layout toolbar and a million miles to the left of the data frame????
I have no idea why
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I've tried everything above but no luck. I've seen it mentioned (in another thread I think) that it happened to someone when they started messing around with their print settings.
This was also the case for me as I'm working with a 50x50" layout.
What worked for me was File >> Page & Print Setup >> and then make SOME kind of change there (e.g. add 0.1" to the width). As soon as I hit okay, everything comes back, then I go back and undo that change.
This happens when the original creator of the template or map hid some element way off to the side (a bad practice IMHO). It also happens when you change the size of a page/frame significantly, because some element like scale text may be outside your view. Sometimes one element just moves way, way off the map frame. If you can find and select the map frame element, you can edit its X and Y properties to bring it back onto the page. It is easier to just delete all the other misplaced elements.
ArcPro 2.4.1 My map doesn't show in layout view or my map, so I turned off all the layers except the map. I found that when I imported my .mxd from ArcMap, ArcPro included the base map to be clipped with my DataFrame, instead of excluded. The fix is here.
Esri would you turn this off by default, PLEASE?
Map Series | Layout Properties
Well, that fixed the map, but now my other features won't clip. I'll keep working on it.
I think I was having a similar issue recently. I would set a scale field in the attribute table of a grid layer. When I set the scale of the data driven pages to use that scale, my map, data and layout, would be blank. I could not use the globe button or zoom to a layer.
Solution: I went into the properties of the Basemap Layer at the top of the Table of Contents and set the coordinate system to the correct one. (I think Data Pages changed the CS). Fixed!!
You can toggle draft mode when you are in Layout view either via the Layout tool bar or by right clicking and selecting "Toggle Draft Mode".
For more info:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//0103000001q3000000.htm