In March when it officially came out, I went through the helpful ArcGIS pro tutorials to see if it was worth using instead of ArcMap. At the time I made a few comments to share with a colleague. Here's what I wrote then:
- I searched every where for the ID tool. It doesn't look like an ID tool, looks more like a pan tool to me:
- Be sure you install a 64-bit sql client on your computer (sqlncli.msi for 64-bit) or you'll get meaningless errors when you try to connect to your geodatabases.
- When you enter attributes of a new feature in the attributes window, you can't use tab or the Enter key to go to the next atribute, you must mouse your way through each attribute.
- When using a legend, I couldn't figure out how to adjust layers into more than 1 column or change how layers are presented in the legend (i.e. don't show layer name or don't show the classification) or even exclude a layer from the legend.
- Printing is a little awkward. Setting the layout to landscape does not automatically print to layout. You have to open the printer preferences EACH TIME you print and set it to landscape. Where's the "Use Printer paper settings" checkbox?
- Once you insert a map onto a layout, the two don't seem to be dynamically synchronized (i.e. pan on the map, the data layers pan on the layout). There seems to be a feature that allows you to do this but it wasn't working for me.
- When you insert a map onto a layout, you can't pan, zoom, or change the scale (at least from what I could tell).
- You can't change the properties of the scale bar - they are inherited from the map. If your map displays in miles, then your layout scale bar displays in miles, even if you want to use feet.
- I didn't find it any more robust than ArcMap and I'm using a new 64-bit laptop with 16 GB of RAM and a solid state hard drive.
I went back to ArcMap and haven't tried Pro since.
