It would be helpful if the ArcGIS Pro symbols downloaded from online could more easily be accessed across projects or set as the default style list for all new projects for a given user profile.
This has been marked by Kory Kramer as a duplicate of Pro: Importing Styles should be permanent Please visit that idea to vote and add comments.
Process to then add those styles to another (new or existing) project. Styles with the suffix 2.0.0 are ArcGIS Pro 2.0.0 read-only styles; styles without the suffix have been upgraded to the current Pro version.
Alison, I think that this has already been requested through Pro: Importing Styles should be permanent But I wanted to make sure you were aware that you can save a project template that includes a style or styles that you use frequently, and then create new projects from the template. Your new projects will contain those styles so you don't have to repeat imports. Would that work for you?
The process for importing styles from online does not prompt for a save location, which makes this a tedious process (per your link), and the template does not resolve the desire to have added styles available by default when I open pre-existing projects.
Your points are valid. I think we can manage these use cases through Pro: Importing Styles should be permanent but copy your comments onto that thread. Does that work for you?
Yes. Is there a single webpage or document (with screenshots) that indicate the process to create a template for Pro that would best mimic functionality of Map? Some of that functionality includes making styles imported from online & tools intended for shared org use available locally (if appropriate) for any user on the network (perhaps using the code from Pro: Importing Styles should be permanent<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1svUSv1-12FTvfiLrouVoTR1Bdg2j3k1r5fiIP30SVMz7kKTP0ITc7NdLMPn8HPO1OG-HmFw7gA13ZXfJU3D1I0gxjaGSPy7kEBCQTYwXFfxe-r2JQ6XY_X-M5jjDbtE6Ji6NRhaqD0CfdLdUPwfcBXkPpcaepHyaY4uam6HM0eHVzcJmx6qaj7aTzXcqSbGEAVwv5GK163y2sbeHwDGH-LpCAyvqdQTuSklk7iXKJHDUE7J9A3cwrSyrdbgasN5HVdIh-4Iw89sV1ppv2wzldA/https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.esri.com%2Fideas%2F14277-pro-importing-styles-should-be-permanent>) Prompting the user w/ default temp and project folder locations (as determined by GIS Admin) could help limit the creation of 2 .gdbs/project for each user, and instructing users to set network folders for shared projects would also be useful.
For example, searching for "Dog" in ArcMap will return icons from the Forestry style group that are relevant to anyone mapping a dog park. In ArcGIS Pro, the same search returns nothing. To use the "Dog Area" style in Pro , I have to 1) open ArcMap, 2) add a point layer to Map, 3) search for the "Dog" symbol for that point, 4) identify the style set containing Dog Area, 5) Open the Catalog in Pro, 6) browse to Portal --> All Portal, 7) search for .stylx, 8) right-click Forestry-->Add Style and decide whether to upgrade the style or not, 9) go back to my symbol selection in the Pro map (remembering to search "All Styles")