Latest Contributions by Michele

@KoryKramer  I wish it was that easy.  For some reason we are always at least 6 months behind.  I have no idea why, but I won't see all of the great stuff I heard about at the UC coming in 3.2 at least until next spring. ☹️ ... View more

@KoryKramerThanks Kory!!  I guess I didn't realize there were 3 pages of comments in this thread or I would've seen that it's 3.1.  I really am only having an issue with the width of the layer properties window.  I hope this is fixed in that version.  Have to get my IT dept to update us to 3.1 which should take about 6 months 🙄 ... View more

Hi Sarah, Thanks for the suggestion.  I can't copy/paste my code because it's on a completely different network but basically I am using the polygon to line GP tool to convert an entire poly to a line (only 1 record in the table).  The polygon attribute table has a field with a date in it that I want to add/copy into the line feature class attribute table.  What you suggest makes sense, I'll have to see if I can get it to work for my case. ... View more

Does anyone know what version this was fixed in?  Says at the top that it was implemented, but doesn't say what version.  I am on 3.0.3 and still having to resize the layer properties window EVERY SINGLE TIME!! ... View more

I figured I was going to get the negative feedback on sharing a file gdb due to corruption potential issues.  This was set up originally for one user, but then others that aren't GIS experts and understand all of these kinds of problems, just started grabbing the original project and saving it off as something they could use since many of the layers they needed also were in there. The problem with publishing it as a service is that they need the ability to edit the polyline, not just access it simultaneously.  I'm not talking about simultaneous editing like in google docs,sheets, although that would be ideal.  Just the capability for one person to edit while others are just viewing it as a layer in their project. Is there any way to do that?  I haven't seen anything about the old starting/stopping of an edit session being added to Pro, but I'm afraid it will cause the same issues as it did in ArcMap where it could cause corruption, and leave the lock file of another person on the dataset until you close out completely and restart the program.     ... View more

Thanks for the detailed explanation on how this works.  The text in my attribute table was in title text. I didn't realize just changing the text case to uppercase would have an impact on the abbreviations.  I made a new field in the attribute table that has the spelling in the case I want it defaulted to and then added the translation and keyword in the abbreviation dictionary as needed.  This seems to have fixed all my issues.  Thanks again for all of your help! ... View more

So this is really strange, but today when I created the no color stroke the labels moved away from the boundary.  I have no idea what I did differently.  I did confirm before doing it that the never remove (place overlapping) check box was not checked and the overrun maximum was zero.  Thanks for your assistance on this Jesse!! ... View more

Hmmm.  This is a good idea, but I forgot that I am using natural earth data and the boundaries for the countries are in a polyline layer and the countries are in a polygon layer, the latter containing the labels.  I tried adding a stroke to the polygon layer (with the labels/abbreviation dictionary), but didn't notice any change even though the labels were clearly overlapping the line (even with it turned on).  Can confirm that the overlap is set to zero as well. ... View more

This makes sense now the way you described it above.  You should consider adding this to the abbreviation and truncate labels help page as it is more descriptive.  My only issue is that when I use this method in the abbreviation dictionary, it does not try to fit the entire label first if it can.  It just automatically assigns the abbreviation. For example I have Taiwan that I want to be abbreviated Tai. when the feature is too small to fit the entire name, but it always assigns the abbreviation.  Is it supposed to work that way?  I should have also mentioned that I had the text case assigned to upper case for the layer, because I want most of the labels to be upper case.  I have about 70 or so that I need to be mixed case (smaller islands, territories)  When I assign "normal" to the text case it makes all my labels that I want uppercase, mixed case.  AFGHANISTAN becomes Afghanistan.  What I am looking to do is keep AFGHANISTAN if it fits in the polygon, but if it becomes too small then the abbreviation of AFG. should kick in. Same with "Bermuda".  I want it to display Bermuda if it fits and if it doesn't then make it "Berm."  Is there a way to do this? You cannot use translation if you have multiple abbreviations, correct.  That's another issue I'm running into using translation.   ... View more

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "pin" a pane open.  Do you mean like pin the catalog pane open on the right side which would change the extent of the area of the map?  I always have the same arc layout on my screen so that shouldn't matter.  If I have a layout in the exact area I want and create a bookmark, shouldn't that translate to any other layout? It doesn't seem to be doing that.  The only thing I can think of is perhaps the bookmark was made in the map frame view and doing that is different then making it in the layout view. ... View more