Add Ability to Pin or Minimize Docked Table View

[JamesPoeschel]

ArcGIS Pro currently allows panes (Catalog, Contents, Geoprocessing, etc.) to be auto-hidden using the push-pin icon, but attribute tables docked at the bottom of the interface do not have an equivalent minimize or auto-hide option.

Requested Enhancement:

Add a push-pin (auto-hide) or minimize control to docked attribute table views, especially when docked horizontally at the bottom of the interface.

Opened Table (with pin icon drawn on):

Collapsed Table (after selecting the proposed pin icon):

Benefits:

• Consistent UI behavior with other ArcGIS Pro panes

• Improved usability on smaller screens and laptops

• Faster workflows when switching focus between the map and table

• Reduced need to repeatedly close and reopen tables

When working with many feature classes or tables, attribute tables can consume a large portion of screen space. The only current options are to manually resize the pane height, close the table entirely, or undock the table into a floating window (which then allows minimize). None of these options provide the same efficiency as auto-hide behavior available for other panes.

It may seem like a small enhancement, but it's something I would certainly use daily. Manually adjusting the table height to be functionally hidden is annoying. And if this ability already exists, please let me know, but also please consider making it more obvious!

A “Collapse All Tables” option would also be a convenient addition. 

Thank you for considering this enhancement.

EDIT: Later found out an existing post exists for this idea:
Auto hide attribute table in ArcGIS Pro

[alex_friant]

I like this idea. Currently the only option is to slide adjust the table view (or which ever view that needs minimizing) using the border between it and the map view, which would be super convenient. 

And really, a Minimize button would just be a kind of shortcut to quickly do that for the user (effectively shrinking the view down, just like sliding border bar), so implementation would just be a UI interface to quickly toggle between two values (current & 0).

Seems like an easy win!

[CathyAppleton]

yes, we need this.

They added a minimize to the floating attribute table in 3.4.   However it really is a close since it doens't minimize it, but closes it completly.

I want to minimize a docked attribute table (without closing it completely), so i can easily click to resize /reopen the table.     Not go back to the feature in the TOC right click on attribute table to open again.

I can then easily work by clicking on different records and zooming to something , doing then work, then have table easily reopen with a click to grab another r4ecord.

[alex_friant]

@CathyAppleton - Totally agree with everything you said. I want a minimize button, too.

I wanted to share a tip with you (in the meantime) that if you hold down the Ctrl key and double-click the layer, the attribute table will open up. I use that shortcut a lot and thought I'd share. 🤓

[CathyAppleton]

@alex_friant 

Thank you.   Love the tip,    Seems vaguely familiar, like this might have been in one of esri's Pro's tips and tricks.   Sad that a work around tip has to be used instead of original developers having the minimize common feature already available to users.   Thanks again for telling me.   will be using this a lot.

[JamesPoeschel]

@alex_friantThanks for the tip! I didn't know that either. I just know that you could set a keyboard shortcut for it, but I never use that. I like CTRL + double click way better. I might use this as a workaround for now.

Another note: The python window that opens on the bottom actually has a pin button, but you cannot group the attribute table with it to hide together. 

[wayfaringrob]

Oooh, I would totally use this. Plus, AGO already has it (highlighted)

I wouldn't restrict it to just table views, either. Hiding a map, catalog, and so on would also be useful. Could help avoid the cursor choreography of popping it out, docking it back, chasing around the ribbon, etc.

Mac OS used to have a similar function ("window shade") that could be configured by double clicking the title bar (still works in Stickies). Perhaps that could be stolen--er, implemented--as a shortcut.

[vanesch]

I just created an add-in that might help with this. It adds three commands to View tab context menus.  The commands are pretty limited, they only work if you have Views stacked like the image below. 

Since Views, such as maps and tables, can’t be minimized to the application edges like Panes can, these commands simply resize them instead.

https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=536642b4d74a4ecabda3669b2eb453cc 

[JamesPoeschel]

@vanesch Thank you so much for sharing! Ill try it out once my org updates our PRO installations to 3.6

[vanesch]

I posted a new version that is built against 3.5

https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=560984cf7a0e4c21bcd3d6bc2f7f7e6a