ArcGIS Pro - Creating Project Templates without Default File Geodatabase

[RichardLittlefield]

With Pro, it doesn't want to remember SDE connections or folder connections, I have template MXDs that I always start with ArcMap projects, so I'd like to the same thing with Pro. Or even start a blank Pro Project, however have all those folder/SDE connections and maybe a layout set with page sizes. The solution it to create Project Templates.

I've created Templates. Now want to update that templates with some new changes. I've even tried creating a brand new templates. However when creating a new Project, you have to select the default folder location, which sets the default file geodatabase, and toolbox. So I get everything set in my Pro Project, then Share > Export Project Template. It creates the template and I can share it how I please. However those default file geodatabase come with the template. Therefore another user at my organization that would use this template would have the same default FGDB as me. Which is something I don't want.

I know there is an option to pick the same FGDB for every Project, for example a network location, however I don't really want my users to be using the same one for all projects.

I'd like to be able to create a template without the default file geodatabase that was used in that original template Project (aspx file). Because the user creates the default FGDB when they open the template and create a new Project.

[KoryKramer]

Hi @MErikReedAugusta ,

Thank you for your continued engagement with this Idea. We receive around 1000 new Ideas each year, so there is a significant prioritization effort involved with any given release. We hear you and the members of the community who would like to see this implemented and we continue to track user demand on this thread. In other words, its certainly on our radar. That said, there is not a simple way to address this (in general, if there is high demand for a feature or behavior change and it is really easy to do, we try to get to it quickly --> High Value, Low Effort...). That isn't the case here.

I would like to take this opportunity to clarify expectations around Idea statuses. As per the ArcGIS Ideas Submission Guidelines and Statuses, “Under Consideration” means: “You've got our attention!  We think this is a good suggestion and have entered it in our backlog. This does not guarantee that the idea will be developed so we encourage the community to continue voting and sharing feedback which will help teams gauge user demand.”

Thank you for being an active member of the Esri Community.

[MErikReedAugusta]

@KoryKramer 

Thanks for the response and clarification.  I will admit to having been a little salty about having to constantly deal with/clean up these unnecessary items at the time I posted that comment and may have bit a bit more abrasive than I needed to be.  The current behavior definitely still baffles me, but I understand that tech debt happens, sometimes.

From the outside, it is mildly surprising and troubling to me that something like this isn't as simple a fix as it might first appear.  I'm also even more disappointed with that when taken in conjunction with some of the closely-linked concerns and Ideas others have cited above.  The projects created from the Template certainly are capable of creating their own databases and other items, and there's already precedent in the process with toolboxes being able to be excluded.

But again, I recognize that I'm looking from the outside and that tech debt happens, so it is entirely possible that this is significantly more difficult to implement than it appears.  I'll just continue to look forward to the chance of this one day hopefully making it on the development radar.