Can I force ArcPro to show an entire polygon when creating map series?

[BenVan_Kesteren1]

Hey, 

I have created a map series based on a bunch of polygons, and I want to iterate over these polygons and export a PDF accordingly. This works well on the most part, but on a select few of my polygons, it is rounding to the nearest 2500 scale, but this scale is masking some of my polygon.

In this GIF you can see it is working well for a few polygons, but one of them it is masking the east and western sections which is annoying me.

I have tried percent and centimeters as the best fit extent.

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any ideas if I can tell ArcPro to only chose a scale that will show the entire feature?

Cheers

[DanPatterson_Retired]

center and scale?

Customize your map extent—Layouts | ArcGIS Desktop 

what are currently using during the process?

[BenVan_Kesteren1]

Hey Dan, 

I am unsure what you are asking?

I am using best fit, with a 15 percent buffer. But it seems this buffer is not being enforced as per my video above, as it is not showing the entire polygon.

Also I am unable to use centre and maintain scale, as each polygon varies greatly in size.

[DanPatterson_Retired]

I thought center and scale might be a better option

[BenVan_Kesteren1]

oh ok, unfortunately these road polygons are from 50m long to about 3km long, so it will be hard to find a suitable scale.

[TomBole · Accepted solution]

Hi Ben, 

Your expectations of setting a margin is valid, and unfortunately, this is most likely a bug. Can you pass this along to 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.

Dan does point toward a workaround.  You could set the Map Extent with the third option - "Use Scale From Field".  It would require extra work in creating a field for your index layer and populating this field with the required scale value. 

Tom

[ChristiHallman]

So was this ever solved? I am having the same issue. I want to say when I've done similar things in ArcMap it worked out just fine. 

[TomBole]

Christi, 

I'm unaware of any bug specific to this issue that was actually submitted to Technical support. Without actual steps/data to reproduce the issue there is very little we can do. As stated above, technical support is better equipped to handle troubleshooting steps and gather bug data than this forum. They can be contacted at https://support.esri.com/en/contact-tech-support.

Thanks,

Tom

[ChristiHallman]

So was this ever solved? I am having the same issue. I want to say when I've done similar things in ArcMap it worked out just fine

[RickeyFight]

I am having the same issue