Default Toolbox and Geodatabase with Project Templates

NathanHeickLACSD

I want to be able to make a Python toolbox the default toolbox in an ArcGIS Pro project.  I am making a project template and I am putting all my code into the Python Toolbox.  I have no need for the .tbx file that gets created automatically.  Is there a way to do this?  If not, is there a reason why?

 

The same thing kind of goes for my default geodatabase.  I am bringing in an FGDB with an empty schema from my project template.  I don’t need the extra blank file geodatabase that gets created.  I can delete it through Python and reset the default GDB to the one I had in the template, but it would be nice if it kept the original default geodatabase from the source project.

ThomasColson

This topic is quite lively, with the response being a universal dislike of the extra toolboxes and FGDB's being created by Pro, especially with templates:

• https://community.esri.com/ideas/16475-do-not-maintain-an-empty-default-geodatabase-from-a-project-template-in-arcgis-pro
• https://community.esri.com/ideas/12835-arcgis-pro-creating-project-templates-without-default-file-geodatabase
• https://community.esri.com/ideas/14580-enable-arcgis-pro-to-save-without-creating-a-file-geodatabase
• https://community.esri.com/ideas/14551-add-options-on-create-new-project-dialog

We've tried to workaround it by this: 

Unfortunately you have to do this for each user of each computer, and new users are popping up as fast as "how do I get rid of the extra toolboxes and geodatabases" comments, and I've gotten quite a lot of negative feedback "Arc Map wasn't this complicated to use!". You also can't put the default "junk" on a network share as Pro performance suffers greatly when the default junk is on a network drive, and there's the danger of multiple folks using the same junk.