topic Re: Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project

TonyHowze — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:47:44 GMT

Currently, in our ArcMap workflow, my staff will sometimes have a need to work on getting multiple maps edited for the same report simultaneously. This usually isn't a problem, aside from users having the same mxd open at once. This will send off an "Unable to save" document, but give the user a chance to save a copy for any edits they have made, then with a few shouts we can figure out how to resolve. This works fairly well because of the single mxd workflow. We have multiple maps for reports, and I can have my staff tackle as a group.

Now with Pro, all the maps/layouts will be bundled together in one .aprx. We have just tested having multiple users open the same aprx, make changes, save changes. There is no notification that any other user is accessing the document, nor has saved the document. It appears, the first user to open and save, has control of the document. Other users can make changes, save (no error), but the saves will not be stored. I foresee this is a HUGE problem. Am I missing something or has ESRI tackled this issue with a very limited scope (only work on your hard drive)? If I can't get a notification that another user has the same aprx opened, or if not all user's changes can be saved this will be a non-starter for us to move away from ArcMap. How are we to address this? Is this a bug?? An enhancement request (which is just silly to me)?

Re: Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project

Robert_LeClair — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 22:40:30 GMT

Tony - interesting but in a scary way certainly. This issue has been seen by the Pro Dev Team and to my knowledge, will be resolved in the ArcGIS Pro 2.0 release. More to come...

Re: Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project

AdrianWelsh — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 02:36:40 GMT

Robert, is there an ETA on the Pro 2.0 release?

Re: Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 04:00:24 GMT

Adrian, per another post I saw today, it should be release prior to around the UC.....subject to change of course.

edit... Post I'm referring to https://community.esri.com/community/gis/applications/arcgis-pro/blog/2017/03/05/arcgis-pro-roadmap

Re: Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 04:03:43 GMT

It is the perpetual release cycle... never fails

Re: Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project

Robert_LeClair — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 22:35:45 GMT

Adrian - I'm hearing sometime in June but don't know exactly when. I suspect before UC to give customers time to work with Pro beforehand. I'm currently working with an early copy of 2.0 and it allows for more than one instance of Pro running on the same machine now - good news!

Re: Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project

AdrianWelsh — Mon, 08 May 2017 03:32:14 GMT

This is great news! Thanks for testing this and letting us know (hard to contain the excitement!)

Re: Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project

erica_poisson — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:02:18 GMT

Robert,

Was this ever corrected in 2.2? I've read the release notes but didn't see this specifically called out.

Thanks,
Erica

Re: Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project

TonyHowze — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:05:52 GMT

Erica,

This was resolved in 2.0. You now get a "[Read Only]" notice in the aprx tile bar and a save as dialog if you try to save.

Re: Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project

erica_poisson — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:46:16 GMT

Thanks Tony. I didn't notice this but will pay attention in the future.

Re: Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project

SaraPaolaRamosRodriguez — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:22:00 GMT

Hello to everyone,

These messages were written long time ago. However, I am still looking for solutions to the same problem. Does anyone have found how several persons could work (and save changes) in the same projekt?

The case in the company I work for is:

We create a folder with a geodatabase that will be used in numerous MXD files.
For each map (layout) we need, we create a MXD file.
In this way, we can create several maps simultaneously for a same projekt.

The problem with ArcGIS Pro (as described before by @TonyHowze is that, if all the layouts are saved in one Projekt, only one person could make changes at a time or create new layouts.

This is very problematic for us.

Thank you so much for your comments about this issue 🙂

Best regards,

Sara Ramos

Re: Multiple Users on 1 Arcgis Pro project

TonyHowze — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:12:18 GMT

Hello Sara,

ESRI seemed to fix my problem which was there was no notification of any kind if another user had an aprx open and locked. The save would proceed like everything was fine. Now the aprx will have [Read Only] in the aprx title and will provide a pop up if you try to save. This is all standard windows locking. As for your issue, one thing we do as a workaround is the read only users create the maps and layouts as needed, then save the layout as a layout file. The process is real simple, right click in the catalog view on the layout, "save as layout file", then the owner user imports the layout to the final aprx. Hope that helps.