https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/improve-change-data-source-and-select-data-source/idi-p/1401593 <P>I have a repetitive workflow where I need to create a new project, add a hosted feature service to the map, download the hosted feature service as a file geodatabase, and repoint the layers to the file geodatabase.&nbsp; I am using either the Update Data Sources tool from the map or changing the data source on the layer.&nbsp; In either case, I find the Change Data Source and Set Data Source windows to be very poor.&nbsp; First of all, the performance is significantly slower than any similar dialog window in Microsoft Office.&nbsp; Second of all, it tries to open your last folder, but it takes between 1 and 10 seconds to do so.&nbsp; So, you get impatient, you navigate to&nbsp; where you want to go and then it finally opens the last folder and undoes the effort you just put in.&nbsp; Third of all, it seems to remember the last folder differently for different feature class types.&nbsp; For example, I created a new project, changed the data source for a point layer, then when I went to update the data source for a line layer, it did not go back to the same file geodatabase, it went back to the last file geodatabase where I had selected a line feature class.&nbsp; It's getting in my way.&nbsp; Sometimes, I am accidentally picking layers from the wrong geodatabase because I'm assuming it is still in the last folder I was in on the same project.&nbsp; Fourth, for my workflow, I would like it to start out in a neutral location like Databases.&nbsp; Maybe other people would have different opinions for different workflows.&nbsp; So, maybe there should be an option to specify how file dialogs behave in the software.</P><P>My idea is simply make the windows perform faster, more intuitively, more predictably, and possibly configurably.&nbsp; As it stands, I am fighting the software.&nbsp; This is in ArcGIS Pro 3.2.</P> Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:45:08 GMT NathanHeickLACSD 2024-03-27T17:45:08Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/improve-change-data-source-and-select-data-source/idi-p/1401593 <P>I have a repetitive workflow where I need to create a new project, add a hosted feature service to the map, download the hosted feature service as a file geodatabase, and repoint the layers to the file geodatabase.&nbsp; I am using either the Update Data Sources tool from the map or changing the data source on the layer.&nbsp; In either case, I find the Change Data Source and Set Data Source windows to be very poor.&nbsp; First of all, the performance is significantly slower than any similar dialog window in Microsoft Office.&nbsp; Second of all, it tries to open your last folder, but it takes between 1 and 10 seconds to do so.&nbsp; So, you get impatient, you navigate to&nbsp; where you want to go and then it finally opens the last folder and undoes the effort you just put in.&nbsp; Third of all, it seems to remember the last folder differently for different feature class types.&nbsp; For example, I created a new project, changed the data source for a point layer, then when I went to update the data source for a line layer, it did not go back to the same file geodatabase, it went back to the last file geodatabase where I had selected a line feature class.&nbsp; It's getting in my way.&nbsp; Sometimes, I am accidentally picking layers from the wrong geodatabase because I'm assuming it is still in the last folder I was in on the same project.&nbsp; Fourth, for my workflow, I would like it to start out in a neutral location like Databases.&nbsp; Maybe other people would have different opinions for different workflows.&nbsp; So, maybe there should be an option to specify how file dialogs behave in the software.</P><P>My idea is simply make the windows perform faster, more intuitively, more predictably, and possibly configurably.&nbsp; As it stands, I am fighting the software.&nbsp; This is in ArcGIS Pro 3.2.</P> Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:45:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/improve-change-data-source-and-select-data-source/idi-p/1401593 NathanHeickLACSD 2024-03-27T17:45:08Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/improve-change-data-source-and-select-data-source/idc-p/1401772#M29128 <P>What about XTools Pro software? It has the Data Source Manager tool.</P><P><A href="https://help.xtools.pro/agp/23.1/en/XTools_Pro_Components/Data_Tools/Change_Datasource.htm" target="_blank">https://help.xtools.pro/agp/23.1/en/XTools_Pro_Components/Data_Tools/Change_Datasource.htm</A></P> Thu, 28 Mar 2024 01:49:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/improve-change-data-source-and-select-data-source/idc-p/1401772#M29128 SeaRM 2024-03-28T01:49:07Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/improve-change-data-source-and-select-data-source/idc-p/1402032#M29132 <P>I would prefer Esri tried to get ArcGIS Pro to work on par with other Windows products.</P> Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:05:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/improve-change-data-source-and-select-data-source/idc-p/1402032#M29132 NathanHeickLACSD 2024-03-28T16:05:24Z