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ArcGIS Pro Tips & Tricks 2026 – Share Yours!

Aubri Otis

Ahead of the ArcGIS Pro Tips & Tricks session at the 2026 Esri User Conference, we’re creating a space to gather practical ideas from the community.

ArcGIS Pro has a lot of useful features, but it’s easy to miss new things or fall back to known workflows. This is a place to share the tips and tricks you use every day. Add your favorite shortcuts, customized settings, workflow tweaks, or anything else you've stumbled across that saved you time below.

Even after UC, this thread can continue to grow into a living collection of tips for the community. Please come back to read the latest suggestions and add more!

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KimOllivier

Pro Tip: Schema definitions

Use schema.ini to define a schema on CSV files before adding to the contents. This enables you to rename fields, force the type, define text field lengths and create a table that is ready to save into a filegeodatabase.

If you have an existing table with the desired schema an easy way to create the schema.ini is to export one line to a TXT file and ArcGIS will write out a definition for you. Just edit the header to point to the new file, make any changes such as deleting the objectid field and you are away! Esri supports schema.ini.

If you don't have a schema.ini entry all text fields will default to 255 characters.

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