idea Import and Export Group Templates in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Import and Export Group Templates

Ariggs — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:28:58 GMT

I often have a need to create group templates in different projects that will do the same thing or nearly the same thing. Every time I make a new project I'm limited by not having all my templates, so a lot of work has to be done and copied in one home project despite the data being hosted in an enterprise geodatabase. I would love to be able to save group and feature templates as some sort of template file that I can import into new projects.

Could have an "export/import all" option like with Attribute Rules.

Re: Import and Export Group Templates

KoryKramer — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:45:39 GMT

Thank you for submitting this idea @Ariggs

It is a valid idea and something that we'll be looking into for near-term releases. For now, we wanted to make sure that you were aware of the ability to copy feature templates (new in ArcGIS Pro 3.1). So if you need to move templates from one project into another, you could create a map package and bring that into a new project. Once in the target project, those feature templates can be copied as described in the help. I'm not sure if this will necessarily satisfy what you're looking for, but for now it may be an option while we continue to develop the functionality requested in your idea.

Hope this helps.

Re: Import and Export Group Templates - Status changed to: Under Consideration

Scott_Harris — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 14:09:19 GMT

Re: Import and Export Group Templates

Ariggs — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 21:17:10 GMT

@KoryKramer I didn't know about this, thank you! This is currently only available for feature templates and not group templates?

Re: Import and Export Group Templates

JenniferCadkin — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:13:22 GMT

@Ariggs Copy templates is available for all template types: Feature Template, Table Template, Group Template, and Preset Template.

Re: Import and Export Group Templates

gis_mags — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:54:40 GMT

This would be super useful! We want different users to be able to easily share templates between them. An import/export function would be invaluable.