Ideas to improve ascetic Add Data dialog box, to enrich it with more controls and functionality:
Better information support
- Add Geographic, Table and Metadata Preview tabs
- Add more columns in Details view for better information support (currently only Name and Type) like Created/Modified Date, Size, Cartographic projection, Lock, Author… (even for GDB Feature Classes)
- Auto refresh (at least reload button). When the contents of currently opened folder have changed during add data operation, Add Data dialog box doesn’t reflect it at all.
Improvements
- Possibility to add selected layers as a Group layer or a Basemap Layer
- Add folder to map document at once with all layers as a Group/Basemap layer or as separated layers
- Add forward and back button with browsing history
- Missing hierarchical tree side window
- Missing favorite/most/last used locations menu
- Missing menu with all utilized directories by current map document
- Resizable Add Data dialog box
- Select All files with CTRL+A, F2 for file rename
- Context menu to show layer properties
- More data type filters in “Show of type”: SHP, GDB, raster type…
- Add Data should have in its keyboard shortcut by default
- After data addition support – optional dialog to show possible operations with imported data. Rasters: georeferencing, build pyramids…, CAD: georeferencing, layers, symbology…
