Labeling: Always apply Abbreviation Dictionaries

[LyonMNGIS]

Hello,

Please consider adding the option to always apply abbreviation dictionaries and truncation to the Maplex label engine even if the labels could otherwise fit inside the map.

Justification:

• This will allow the labels to be consistent on large and small polygons / features.
• Abbreviation dictionaries are "cleaner" than needing to add another field just to configure a label.
• It is easier to set up an abbreviation compared to adding Arcade, Python, etc code into the label expression.
• As a bonus the abbreviation dictionaries could be copied when creating a layer file, or copying from one ArcGIS Pro window to another.

Figure 1:  Allow the option to always apply abbreviation dictionaries even if the label can already fit on the map.

Thank You

[JesseWickizer]

Abbreviation dictionaries already allow you to always apply the abbreviation. In your abbreviation dictionary, set the entry type to Translation. Translation entries always apply to all words of a string. Translation entries may be useful when you translate a map into another language, want to remove words from a label string, or want all occurrences of a word to be abbreviated.