topic Drop-down menu is missing, disallowing me to properly use a toolbox in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Drop-down menu is missing, disallowing me to properly use a toolbox

JanGoverde — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 22:03:19 GMT

Hi all,

I'm quite new to Arcgis PRO and it's many functions. I want to create a soil map of California and the USDA provides plenty of high quality data to accomplish this task. Today I've learned about toolboxes and the USDA provides a toolbox to generate custom soil maps, based on attributes (i.e.).

The problem is the following:

I'm unable to browse trough my folders, in order to select map types. I know the toolboxes are written in Python. Is there a way to fix this problem? Or does anyone have experience with these toolboxes created by the USDA?

Many thanks!

Re: Drop-down menu is missing, disallowing me to properly use a toolbox

GeeteshSingh07 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 05:36:15 GMT

@JanGoverde, I suppose the tools that you are using are 'script tools' created in toolbox. If it is a script tool, you can follow the process to set the data type, so the drop-down appears:

Open the Properties of script tool.

Open 'Parameters' tab, set the parameter (data type) of 'Map Unit Layer' as 'Feature Layer'. (Assuming Map unit layer is a feature layer)..

Save the changes & refresh the toolbox.

If layers are added to the map. The drop-down will be displayed.

@JanGoverde Let me know if this doesn't work & it would be great if you could share the SS of toolbox & tool properties.