Catalog File Grouping / Sort Order
ArcCatalog maintains files by group type more or less. Folders at the top, File geodb's next and everything else last. See screenshots. I've looked for setting for controlling sort order, but doesn't seem to be options for doing so. Can this be added to Options for listing files in Catalog? Same View Options as Windows would be helpful.
ArcCatalog Tree:
Pro Catalog is 100% A-Z order, with no options to change:
Hello @JakeKrall,
Thank you for your feedback.
We do not have any plans to add more functionalities to ArcCatalog. However in ArcGIS Pro, you already have the capability to sort items as you described above, not in the Catalog pane, but in catalog views – sort by Name, Type, and when applicable, by Date Modified, Size, and Path, as well as by Default sort order, which is the sort order in the Catalog pane, similar to what you would see in ArcCatalog. Below is a screen capture showing the sort options in a catalog view, with Date Modified (most recent on top) as the current sort order:
You can do such sorting either by by using the Sort drop down (as above), or by directly clicking on the column header (Name, Type, etc.).
And Hello @RandyCasey, – while the filter functionality is not yet in place for the Catalog view, you could, for now, take advantage of sorting by Type - when you browse into your database, click the Type column header to sort the items by type, and you can then scroll to all the table items that are grouped together, for example.
Hi @rburke-bsrc,
It seems that you are looking for the "default" sort order, which is the sort order for folder content in ArcCatalog, as well as the sort order in the Catalog pane in ArcGIS Pro. To sort things this way in the Catalog view, you can use the Sort drop down and select Default Sort:
Note that this Default sort order is what you would see for your project content when you open your project, before you manually change the sort order.
I hope this answers your question.
In Pro, Excel worksheets are supported as a type of database (whereas in ArcCatalog they are supported as a type of file), therefore they appear in the same group with database items in the Default sort order. Within this group, Excel worksheets will just be ordered alphabetically together with database items:
If you find your Excel worksheets always ordered before the database items regardless of their name, then it is a bug that we need to fix. Could you please confirm that this is not the case?
If on the other hand you do not like to see Excel worksheets ordered alphabetically together with databases, then, could you please enter a separate Pro Idea for it? This current idea is about sorting capabilities in general.
Thank you for your feedback!