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Learning ArcGIS Pro

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Learning ArcGIS Pro

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning ArcGIS Pro
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
ArcGIS Pro Glossary
Index

Task steps


Steps are really the meat of your tasks. They provide the instructions to complete a process or workflow to the users. Steps can be simple text instructions that tell how to perform an action such as how to use the Explore tool to zoom to the area of interest. Steps can also be very complex. You can include specific tools, layer behavior, and selection controls within a step.

It is entirely up to you. The complexity of the steps and how many you need will be driven by the answers to those four questions. If you are trying to standardize a specific workflow for experienced users, you may increase the complexity of the step structure to automate it as much as possible. This will increase the efficiency of your team while also ensuring that everyone performs the process in the same way. If you are designing the task to be a training tool, you may want the steps to be more manual and instructional to allow the user to gain a better understanding of what tools are used and how they...