Link Element Visibility to Bookmarks

[LindsayRaabe_FPCWA]

IDEA: Add function to link Layout Element and Map layer Visibility to Bookmarks. 

This idea initially incorporated map layers as well but have moved that as a comment of another pre-existing idea here: Layer Status Bookmarking - Esri Community

I see this working by having a list of checkboxes on a new section of the Element Pane where you can enable Bookmark Linking and set which Bookmarks would make an Element (or group of elements) visible when navigating to the Bookmark. Elements would be turned off when a non-checked Bookmark is selected. Manually moving/changing the map extent would have no further effect. 

By extension, this could be connected to the Bookmark type of Map Series. 

Bookmark Linking functionality summary:

- If not enabled (not checked), the elements remain as per what you last set them in the Table of Contents (on or off) when you navigate to a Bookmark.

- If enabled (checked), then the layers would turn on when a checked Bookmark is navigated to, and off when an un-checked Bookmark is navigated to.

- If enabled and no Bookmarks are checked, then it would always turn off when navigating to any Bookmark. This could be a useful way of ensuring that "reference" layers don't display on final map products. 

I have a layout and am using a series of Bookmarks to focus on different views of a property - an Overview and then 3 Focus maps with more detail. I have Elements in the layout including Statistic boxes (static text as Dynamic text couldn't break down the figures with enough granularity) and other information (i.e. Layout titles, land tenure summaries and locality labels). 

You can see in the screenshots below the grouped elements that I turn on and off to suit each Bookmark. 

[MErikReedAugusta]

See also: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/layer-status-bookmarking/idc-p/1354897#M27301

I'm definitely in favor of this idea, because I can see numerous applications both in Map and Layout View, but so far we don't seem to have convinced ESRI, unfortunately.

[LindsayRaabe_FPCWA]

Just added my thoughts to this post which suggests being able to Group layers outside of the traditional "Drawing Order" groups to make it easier to turn on and off related layers: Group layers without changing the layer order - Esri Community

[AubriKinghorn]

Hi,

Thank you for your idea! This looks to be 2 ideas, one for linking the map layer visibility to bookmarks and another for linking the layout element visibility to bookmarks. While connected, each of these is a different idea requiring different controls. I think the linking map layer visibility to bookmarks is covered in this idea https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/layer-status-bookmarking/idi-p/973749. If that's the case, I recommend simplifying this idea to focus on bookmarks and layout elements, which is a unique and fascinating idea that you detail really well.

Will that work?

Cheers,

Aubri

[LindsayRaabe_FPCWA]

@AubriKinghorn Thanks for the suggestion. I've moved the "Layer" part of the idea into the other post as a comment, and updated this idea to reflect the Element component only. Hopefully that gives it a better chance at getting legs! 

I agree - this is something that we could use relatively frequently. I try to use Dynamic Text and other dynamic elements as much as possible, but sometimes they just can't be filtered to the degree that is required (i.e. Visible Rows is not good enough - we only want a selection of data to be referenced but the surrounding features still visible, or a combination of query and visible rows, but at present it's one or the other). So we defer to static elements in these use cases and update those text boxes as needed (usually using an Excel Pivot Table to generate the summary after copying the Attribute Table out).

If this idea (Provide Table Summary Options without graphical co... - Esri Community) got legs, that would help out heaps in this space too!