idea Catalog Pane short-cut to collapse current category in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Catalog Pane short-cut to collapse current category

Jan_Tjallingvan_der_Wal — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:18:43 GMT

The Catalog Pane becomes awkward to navigate when the number items increases beyond just a few screens high. This can easily happen with the categories Database (and contents thereof) and Geoprocessing History. It would be helpful to have a logical short-cut to collapse the current category e.g. Alt+Left Arrow? or Alt-Gr+Tab?

Re: Catalog Pane short-cut to collapse current category

KoryKramer — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:50:27 GMT

Jan, it may not do exactly what is being requested in the idea, but try Ctrl + and Ctrl - while you have the Catalog pane in focus.

Re: Catalog Pane short-cut to collapse current category

Jan_Tjallingvan_der_Wal — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:53:04 GMT

Allright, I will give those suggestions a whirl.

Re: Catalog Pane short-cut to collapse current category

Jan_Tjallingvan_der_Wal — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 20:09:03 GMT

BTW, I did try and find those short-cuts. I actually checked the Help for KB-short-cuts just before posting the idea.
Just to let you know I'm not randomly posting without consideration.

Re: Catalog Pane short-cut to collapse current category

JoshuaPust — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:07:10 GMT

Collapse and Expand are available in Pro Catalog pane but only at the Folder level using Left-arrow(collapse) and Right-arrow(expand). ArcMap & Windows Explorer have functionality at the File-level for the Left-arrow that jumps from the highlighted file--> up to its hierarchical parent folder. So a Left-arrow double-press would collapse the folder and so on.

Re: Catalog Pane short-cut to collapse current category

Steve_Salas — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:24:44 GMT

I would find this very useful... typically I have several database connections open in the Catalog Pane at the same time with 100+ items showing in each connection. Then I want to jump upwards to the database connection file from an item several "pages" down, say, to check the locks and connected users. My choices are repeated scroll wheel on the mouse, or try to use the vertical scroll bar and not overshoot the database connection. As Joshua stated, left-arrow works this way to collapse folders so could it be expanded to work on geodatabase contents?

Re: Catalog Pane short-cut to collapse current category - Status changed to: In Product Plan

NaicongLi — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:46:42 GMT

Re: Catalog Pane short-cut to collapse current category - Status changed to: Implemented

NaicongLi — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:10:54 GMT