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Hide unlicensed tools

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03-06-2025 12:41 AM
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SimonSchütte_ct
MVP Regular Contributor

It would be great to have a setting in the ArcGIS Pro Options to remove (hide) all Tools from the Geoprocessing pane that are not licensed with the license being currently active.

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So if you have ArcGIS Pro Standard licensed, remove all locked tools from:
3D Analyst, Aviation, Bathymetry, Business Analyst, Data Interoperability, Data Reviewer, Defense Mapping, Geostatistical Analyst, Image Analyst, Indoors, LocateXT, Location Referencing, Maritime, Network analyst, Production Mapping, Publisher ...
if the extensions/tools are not otherwise licensed.

When searching for a suitable tool for a process, it does not help to get shown what tools that are not licensed:

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So in this example from 36 search matches for the keyword "extract" there are only 12 Tools I can actually use with my Standard license...

With the Named User licenses being the only option now, it is no longer so easy to change the ArcGIS Pro Version from Standard to Advanced or enable an additional Extension as it was with the concurrent use license server. In reality once you have been assigned a Named User you are set with the ArcGIS Pro license. Changing the license just to use this one specific tool is simply not possible, so there is no need to show tools I can not use...

Removing Tools not included in the active license should be an option that can be set as needed, as it can be useful in some cases to know what tools may be available with a different license.

Instead of a global option for this setting it would be acceptable to have a filter checkbox in the toolbox pane/search to exclude unlicensed tools from the view.

 

11 Comments
BBicking1

Hello @DanPatterson,

thanks for letting us know that you're okay to have your idea closed.

Thank you, Barbara