The Pro team is excited to begin work on Reports for a future release. We would love to get some input as to what our users' needs are in regards to functionality and appearance. If you frequently make reports and would like to send us a sanitized (no sensitive data) report, please email arajendran@esri.com.
I look forward to hearing from you all!
Hi Michael!
Can I reach out to you via email? I would love to continue this conversation!
Thanks,
Alycia
It would be really great to allow users to create reports using "full" SQL queries, including related table data inside the file and enterprise geodatabase and with many more design options for reporting/templates than in an existing from ArcMap.
I'm also ready to help and test this, for me and my company (Nevsun), very important ArcGIS Pro capability.
Hi! Please send me an email (address in the original post). I'd love to learn more about what your company needs from us!
- Alycia
It would be super cool to be able to add Geodatabase attachments like photos taken with collector app a part of a report. Do you have an idea when It might be possible?
Best regards
-Peter
I agree Peter! It is really important for any Report type!
Glad to see movement on Pro with reporting. The comments above reflect much of what I am hoping to see in the future. I'm currently working with the collector application to gather information on our storm-water outfalls. Along with some general observations being documented several pictures are being attached. Based on a review of Arc Map and Pro I will not be able to easily generate a report with the attached images included. I think as many organizations move to use collector or survey123 as part of their work process being able to generate a report that allows for customization and inclusion of photographs would be very helpful.
Thanks
Hey Alycia,
This will be such a great addition. I would say the biggest improvement you can have would be the design element. ArcMap Report Creation was a very difficult way to design reports. Obviously, the common standard is something like Microsoft Word. Since ArcPro has the same ribbon design perhaps you can have a similar Report Design option where it opens a blank word document and you can easily link to multiple geodatabases through a Pane.
I also agree with Richard Rahe (Above) about the attachments. Applying the attachments from a Survey123 project or Collector for ArcGIS project would be amazing.
I look froward to this addition. I would love to be able to take a project from Feature Class Creation, to Collector, to Report. It would really complete the entire process.
Exciting News!!!
Are you still looking for input on this? I would love to send you some examples of reports I create and would absolute love to see added into the ArcGIS pro functionality. I'm currently trying to hack a report together in the ArcMap Desktop and it's working okay for this basic need, but I have big ideas for other things I do with printed infographics and such.
Hi Jami. I'll speak for Alycia. Yes! Please send examples of what you'd like to see in Pro.
Cheers,
Kory
Customer Advocacy Lead - Desktop
I'm very interested in the development of reports in ArcGIS pro too. I work in Local Government in the UK and am in the process of trying to move more of our databases away from Access and into ArcGIS, but we currently do all of our reporting in Access 2013 because it is quick and easy to do compared to ArcMap, I can embed photos and .jpg of maps, and the final output can be quite slick looking (depending how much time I have!) If the reporting component of AGP could produce as good results as Access 2013 for our needs then it would help the case for using AGP full-time.
The things I'm looking for in reporting is:
1. Embed data driven snap shots of sites in the report (I currently do this manually using .jpg exports)
2. Embed site photos using attachment links
3. Stylish templates for quick reports
4. Ability to easily create own report designs and templates
5. Attractive and professional looking outputs
6. Display the output of select by location queries on the fly, e.g. is a site in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty?
So I use MS Access to link into the attribute tables of a personal geodatabase. With Access as the so called front end I can write any query and report any way I need. Unfortunately Access is unable to link to the attributes in a shapefile or file geodatabase or an online layer or feature service. So what I would like to see is a simple query tool where I can drag and drop fields or even create a calculated field based on existing fields. Then be able to export that table into MS Excel.
So I am wondering if that tool already exists or if there is a work around.
Roger
Hi Roger!
Could you send me an email so I could get a little more information? We may already have a workflow for this in Pro 2.2; I just need to clarify a few things. My email is arajendran@esri.com or feel free to send me a message through GeoNet!
Thanks,
Alycia
Hi,
I agree with the others, attachments were a bit tricky to add in ArcMap, an improved workflow for that would be nice. An easier way not to show "Null"-values would be great. In ArcMap you could use an expression to get rid of them, but it was a little bit tricky as well. If it would be possible to get a button that says "don´t show Null values" that would be great!
When will reports be available in Pro? We´re waiting!
Nicholas
The first phase of Reports will be released in ArcGIS Pro 2.3 in early 2019 (coming soon!) as shown in ArcGIS Pro Roadmap - September 2018
Hi Nicholas! If you would like, you can send me an email so we can talk about your reporting needs specifically! arajendran@esri.com
Thanks!
I would like to see more flexibility with the reporting tool for page footers and report footers. Currently a page footer goes on the bottom of every page. It would be nice if the first page or last page could be skipped. Also, the report footer location goes at the end of the report and it would be beneficial to have the option to put it at the end of the report but at the bottom of the page.
Hi Michael,
Sorry for the delay. If you select your page footer section in the Contents pane, you will see a new contextual tab. From there, the option to exclude your page footer from pages is available:
If your report is 24 pages, you would type "1, 24" in that box, similar to Microsoft Office software. You may run into the issue of not knowing how many pages are in your report, but you can export only the last page to get the total page number:
Although we do not support report footers at the bottom of the last page yet, I will bring this back to my team so we can discuss it further. I agree, it is very beneficial.
Thanks for your feedback!
- Alycia
We also would be interested in helping. We currently do a lot of reports generated out of SQL and in some instances manually. This would be very helpful in pro especially for our environmental staff. Anything that you can do to include attachments and a map would be awesome for environmental assessments, Construction Inspections, and photo logs. We would be more than happy to send you a few examples and help test.
Thanks,
Matt
Hi Matt!
We'd love for you to help! The first release of reports was Pro 2.3. We don't have attachment or map support (yet). It would be great to talk more about your workflows and requirements and get some of those examples. Could you send me an email? arajendran@esri.com
Thanks!
- Alycia
Hey Alycia - who’s Matt?
Mike Honeyman
General Manager
Honeyman Morris Inc.
250-908-0105 | www.hm-inc.ca<http://www.hm-inc.ca>
Kimberley, BC Canada
Hey Mike!
Matt is the person I was responding to Please see the comment above mine.
- Alycia
Gotcha!!!! Thanks I see now.
Have an awesome day!
Mike Honeyman
General Manager
Honeyman Morris Inc.
250-908-0105 | www.hm-inc.ca<http://www.hm-inc.ca>
Kimberley, BC Canada
I have also been playing with the new Report tool in ArcGIS Pro 2.3 and am not seeing a way to display data linked through a relationship table, is this functionality possible? I have a Parcel feature class which is linked to about three tables through a common ID such as permits. The person doing the report printing has limited GIS knowledge but this function looks great if the relationship data can be read. this would also be a great feature for an ArcGIS Online Web App Widget!
Cassandra
I would like to second the option to display data linked through a relationship table! I need to link ownership data to inspection forms using sidwell's as the primary key. There are workarounds, but they aren't ideal. Thanks!
(another) Cassandra
on Jun 2, 2017
This is good news. I work for Freeport-McMoRan an Enterprise user of ESRI products. I would really like the Wizard for the reporting tool to have better default templates than ArcMap. It seemed like ArcMap forced me into making a table of the data instead of giving me the latitude to design my own format. I found out later that I could edit the XML but the intial interface was clunky.
I did like the Group By feature in ArcMap Report feature because it allowed me to order the report based on the priority of the data. At Freeport we are very interested in testing this feature and helping to develop it. I know of several GIS analysts that will want to upgrade or need a reporting solution.
Sincerely,
Michael Wallace