topic Re: Creating SDE Connections in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Creating SDE Connections

KevinReeves — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:04:24 GMT

I am an ESRI user of almost 20 years, and I am trying to start using Pro. I have had several issues to which I have found workarounds, but one I cannot seem to figure out. When I create a new project, I always have to re-establish my SDE connections. In ArcMap and ArcCatalog, once I set up my connections the first time in Catalog, they were always there for anything I wanted to do (including creating new projects) But now in Pro, even though I have created my SDE connections in Catalog, if I start a new Map project, it does not find those connections, and I have to re-create them for each and every new project I want to make. I may be missing something here, but this seems like a step backwards.

Re: Creating SDE Connections

RickeyFight — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:17:54 GMT

Kevin Reeves‌

The way I have found to work around is to add all the connections then save it as a template. That way when you open pro you can choose that template.

Create a project template—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

Re: Creating SDE Connections

Robert_LeClair — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:42:36 GMT

Kevin - an easier way to save your folder/database connections is to right-click on the Database Connections and click "Add to New Projects". Then each time you start a new project, all your database connections are there in the Catalog Pane-Database Connections. Save logic is applied for remembered folder connections. You may learn more about this here.

Re: Creating SDE Connections

KevinReeves — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:21:36 GMT

Thank you. I have never really used templates so that never occurred to me. I just created one and it works great. Thank you for the suggestion.

Kevin