topic Re: Sort items in Contents Pane in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Sort items in Contents Pane

JoeBorgione — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:43:52 GMT

Using ArcGIS Pro 2.7:

Is there a way to sort the items in the contents pane alphabetically? I have a stack of tables I'd like to order that way:

Re: Sort items in Contents Pane

DuncanHornby — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:24:26 GMT

I think the short answer is no. If you right click on the map node in the TOC (what I would be calling a data frame in ArcMap) you can reorder layers by name/type, there is no equivalent for standalone tables. I did discover whilst looking into this question you can drag 'n' drop tables into a preferred order, but it would be nice to see a reorder option for tables too.

Re: Sort items in Contents Pane

JoeBorgione — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:27:12 GMT

Drag and drop is an option...

Re: Sort items in Contents Pane

DanPatterson — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:35:36 GMT

four rules to a successful gis career

Pick something you want to do

left-click
right-click
double-click
if you don't see what you need you are clicking on the wrong thing or the wrong way.

For example... unorder layers in a table of contents, order them

might work for other things... or not

Re: Sort items in Contents Pane

JoeBorgione — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:48:20 GMT

Rats; thought did it, but didn't. When I right click on Standalone Tables it gives me the choice to reorder layers and that's what it does, but not tables....

Re: Sort items in Contents Pane

DanPatterson — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:57:43 GMT

hence the....

might work for other things... or not

Re: Sort items in Contents Pane

DuncanHornby — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 21:40:53 GMT

You forgot to mention to spin around, touch your toes and shout goooo esri! ... or not 😀

Re: Sort items in Contents Pane

BrennanSmith1 — Thu, 09 May 2024 18:29:42 GMT

Yes, using arcpy. See my post here, or the code below.

# get active map in current project p = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("CURRENT") m = p.activeMap # sort table names sortedtables = sorted([t.name for t in m.listTables()]) # create new group g = m.createGroupLayer("Sorted Tables") # for each table, add to group and remove the original for x in sortedtables: t = m.listTables(x)[0] m.addTableToGroup(g,t) m.removeTable(t)