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ArcGIS Pro 2.8.4: Enhancing the Pro to ensure that all tools performed in model builder respect the “scratch workspace environment”,

JamalNUMAN — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 18:13:35 GMT

ArcGIS Pro 2.8.4: Enhancing the Pro to ensure that all tools performed in model builder respect the “scratch workspace environment”,

It would be great if the Pro ensures that all tools performed in model builder respect the “scratch workspace environment”.

This issue is also discussed here:

ArcGIS Pro 2.8.4: A model builder tool fails to respect the scratch workspace environment and ends up with an error,

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.8.4: Enhancing the Pro to make sure that all model builder tools respect the “scratch workspace environment”,

KoryKramer — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 12:45:56 GMT

Hi @JamalNUMAN the question you cited refers to https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/analysis/select.htm The Select (analysis) tool isn't a specific ModelBuilder tool. As was stated on that other thread, not all tools respect all environments. In this case, it sounds like you need the Select tool to honor the Scratch Workspace environment. I wonder if making this idea specific to that would make it more actionable...

In the meantime, have you tried using the memory workspace if you don't need to persist it? "Data written into memory is temporary and is deleted when the application is closed, so it is an ideal location to write intermediate data created in a ModelBuilder model or Python script."

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.8.4: Enhancing the Pro to make sure that all model builder tools respect the “scratch workspace environment”,

Brian_Wilson — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:53:52 GMT

It's probably a mistake to mention Model Builder as part of this "enhancement" aka "bug fix". It's just "tools" not "model builder tools" since you can call all of them from Python scripts.

I wish I could tell what tools honor environment settings without testing them but I live with that.

Using the memory workspace works well for me in Python. It has improved -- I have had pretty good luck with it recently. There used to be tools that did not work with it.

Using Python is generally easier for me than Model Builder because I can manage the error handling, it's easier to see when a tool breaks or is set up wrong and to interpret the results of steps than to sit watching a possibly stuck progress indicator.

I can manage environment settings more easily there too.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.8.4: Enhancing the Pro to ensure that all tools performed in model builder respect the “scratch workspace environment”,

JamalNUMAN — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 18:14:58 GMT

Sorry for the confusion. The tittle of the idea is changed as below to better explain the required enhancement

“Enhancing the Pro to ensure that all tools performed in model builder respect the “scratch workspace environment”

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.8.4: Enhancing the Pro to ensure that all tools performed in model builder respect the “scratch workspace environment”,

JamalNUMAN — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 05:21:30 GMT

The issue persists to exist in 3.0.2

Is there any other tool that’s equivalent to “select” but to respect the environment settings?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.8.4: Enhancing the Pro to ensure that all tools performed in model builder respect the “scratch workspace environment”,

JamalNUMAN — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 09:30:30 GMT

The issue persists to exist even in the Pro 3.1.5

The model builder tool does not respect the “scratch workspace” set in the environment

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.8.4: Enhancing the Pro to ensure that all tools performed in model builder respect the “scratch workspace environment”,

JamalNUMAN — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 07:40:32 GMT

The issue persists to exist even in Pro 3.4.2

Even using the “validate” tool fails to bring the model tools to the new “scratch workspace”

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.8.4: Enhancing the Pro to ensure that all tools performed in model builder respect the “scratch workspace environment”,

JamalNUMAN — Mon, 05 May 2025 09:58:45 GMT

Here, the “integer” tool fails to respect the “scratch workspace” set in the environment.

Is this by design?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.8.4: Enhancing the Pro to ensure that all tools performed in model builder respect the “scratch workspace environment”,

JamalNUMAN — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:38:50 GMT

This is not enhanced even in 3.7.0