idea Keyboard Navigation of Catalog; Type to Select Item in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Keyboard Navigation of Catalog; Type to Select Item

NickNuebel — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 18:14:51 GMT

Enable keyboard navigation of catalog. In ArcMap, it was possible to type the first couple characters and immediately snap selection to the folder or item you were after. For folders or databases containing many items, this was an indispensable method for quickly navigating. Without this feature, I estimate that I spend an extra hour + every week just scrolling and clicking through catalog like a pleb.

Sweet Jesus-- why did we LOSE features in something as fundamental as catalog?

Re: Keyboard Navigation of Catalog; Type to Select Item

wayfaringrob — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 18:39:11 GMT

It's ArcGIS PRO - Prior Reliability Omitted.

Re: Keyboard Navigation of Catalog; Type to Select Item

NickNuebel — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 19:01:52 GMT

@wayfaringrob Ha! I though it was PRO for Pretty Reliably Onerous.

Re: Keyboard Navigation of Catalog; Type to Select Item

wayfaringrob — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 19:09:54 GMT

@NickNuebel It's a good thing there's no "F" anywhere in the name. I'd have plenty more.

Re: Keyboard Navigation of Catalog; Type to Select Item - Status changed to: Under Consideration

KoryKramer — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:29:38 GMT

Hi @NickNuebel and @wayfaringrob

I wanted to chime in here for a few reasons:

1. The Catalog pane in Pro does work this way in a limited capacity; i.e. it is very tightly bound to the item in focus. Here is an example of this working:

CatalogPane_keyboardNavigation.gif

The "in a limited capacity" is the part that we will work on with the goal of relaxing that current focus behavior to make this work better for you (and other ArcGIS Pro users).

2. Please take a few minutes to review the Community Guidelines, specifically the guiding principles of "Be Helpful. Be Human. Be Smart." There is some great guidance in there about keeping your posts positive and your comments constructive and I'd encourage you to review each of those sections completely. Hopefully it will help to elevate the conversation rather than distract from it as I feel it has with this idea.

3. We do appreciate you using ArcGIS Ideas to share your requests for new features and improved functionality with us and I want to personally thank you for engaging with us here - it helps us to continually improve our products. So thank you!

cc @JesseCloutier @BriannaEttley (Esri Community team for visibility)

Re: Keyboard Navigation of Catalog; Type to Select Item

Bud — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:01:16 GMT

It would be nice if this functionality would work for enterprise geodatabases too.

For example, in Oracle EGDBs, objects are prefixed with the owner/schema/user.

CORPORATE.PARCELS
OPERERATIONS.CREEKS
OPERERATIONS.ROADS
OPERERATIONS.SIDEWALKS
TRANSPORTATION.TRAFFIC_LIGHTS

If I were to type "O", then the selection would move to the first object in the OPERATIONS owner/schema/user. That works, but it would be great if there were a way to navigate to an object within a given prefix. So, within the OPERATIONS prefix, search for an object with a specific name by searching for "OPERATIONS.R" for ROADS.

Re: Keyboard Navigation of Catalog; Type to Select Item - Status changed to: In Product Plan

NaicongLi — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 22:20:11 GMT

Re: Keyboard Navigation of Catalog; Type to Select Item - Status changed to: Implemented

AmeliaBradshaw — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:52:43 GMT

This Idea has been implemented in ArcGIS Pro 3.1. Please see the What's New documentation for more new features in Pro 3.1.

The Ideas in ArcGIS Pro 3.1 blog will be wrapped up soon, highlighting all Ideas implemented in this release, including this one. Once complete, I will add the link to this comment.