Ask to save changes when closing Fields, Domains views

[wayfaringrob]

Add a 'save changes' dialog when closing the Fields and Domains views. Currently you can close them without saving your changes, and there is no other indication that you have fields/domains that are unsaved once you close.

[LarsArneson]

@SSWoodward Hey I'm just seeing this and might be a little late to the party. I found this thread when looking to see if my idea to add a save button to the fields window already existed. My thought is that adding a "save" button to the Fields pane will simply remind the user that they may want to save before closing the window. Currently it is easy to be making edits to the fields and change which Tab of the Ribbon you are looking at. You then must go back to the correct tab if you want to save it without closing the fields pane. Let me know if this doesn't make sense!Mock up of added save button.Currently you must be have the correct tab open in the ribbon in order to save.

[KoryKramer]

Thank you for the comment @LarsArneson This idea was asking to provide a dialog or prompt to save changes in design views (Fields View, Domains View, etc.) when closing. That will be delivered in ArcGIS Pro 3.1. Example:

Adding a Save button (and other buttons) into the view itself as opposed to only having it on the ribbon would be a different request. It would be related to https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/move-table-fields-domains-ribbons-to-appropriate/idi-... in the case where a view is pulled away from the main application:

In terms of usability/mouse-travel, I also want to make sure everyone is aware of the right-click context menu in the design views:

[LarsArneson]

@KoryKramer Awesome, thanks for the quick response. I looked at the other idea and it is more relevant. I will comment on it. I am aware of the right click to save, the button idea is more to add a visible reminder that your edits aren't saved if the button is colored. 

I love the "Customize Quick Access Toolbar" because I can save my work at any point, it doesn't matter what window/pane/ribbon I have open. This is very helpful when I'm working on something that might crash the program and I'm wanting to save often. 

[wayfaringrob]

@LarsArneson  I'm right there with ya on QAT. It's a good workaround to the constant disappearing/moving/switching of ribbon commands.

[wayfaringrob]

It sounds like this should be taken care of by 3.1 but I wanted to share another quirk I discovered; I had 2 tables open, and then I opened the fields view for both. I copied the field schema for one field and pasted it into the other as a new field. When I closed the fields view for the table I pasted into, it did not prompt for a save even though it was the only non-table view associated with the feature class. It was when I closed the fields view that I copied from (but made no edits/no "*" in the title) that I got asked to save. This is confusing, since I didn't make any changes to the view I was closing.

Update: even when I click 'Yes' to this popup, the unchanged view remains open and does not close, stuck in a loop. The only solution was to re-open the Fields view in which I pasted, close the one from which I copied first, and then close the one in which I pasted.

[AmeliaBradshaw]

This Idea has been implemented in ArcGIS Pro 3.1. Please see the What's New documentation for more new features in Pro 3.1.

The Ideas in ArcGIS Pro 3.1 blog will be wrapped up soon, highlighting all Ideas implemented in this release, including this one. Once complete, I will add the link to this comment.