Hide unlicensed tools
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.
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:
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.
Enable ArcToolbox customization - Esri Community
5 years old!!!! and still not implemented
But you can experiment with getting rid of the fluff for extensions you don't have
- Go to C:\...your_install_folder\Resources\ArcToolBox\toolboxes
- Make a folder in there like C:\...your_install_folder\Resources\ArcToolBox\toolboxes\Z_unused
- I use Z as the first letter of the folder name, so it sorts as the last
- Move (not copy) the toolbox folders you don't want into it
As a visual example. Now try to find those toolboxes in ArcToolbox.
I will leave it at that, given customizing of arctoolbox included the addition of the Project tools, but not de-fluffing the existing toolboxes and toolsets
Hello Simon, Dan, and John,
a long conversation with the developer made clear that the ArcGIS Pro architecture and implementation do not allow hiding/removing System Toolboxes, Toolsets, and Tools.
What ArcGIS Pro offers is Project Favorites and My Favorites. The former are project-bound. They can, however, be saved in a Project Template and perpetuate between projects that way. The latter are stored in the user’s profile and are available in every project, in addition to Project Favorites.
I, like you all, was fond of being able to remove unused and unlicensed System Toolboxes and Toolsets in ArcGIS Desktop and build my own. So, in ArcGIS Pro I quickly embraced the My Favorites and Project Favorites options and they work very well for me. Please consider them for your work. You may also find useful.
In case the default Project Favorites are not needed/used in your project, click the tool's hammer and click Delete. To remove them all at once, click the 1st tool's hammer, hold the Shift key, click the last tool’s hammer, then click Delete. That removes the entire Project Favorites section. It returns as soon as you select ‘Add to Project Favorites’ on a tool you plan to use in your project.
Regarding the tool search results:
Unlicensed tools do show in the search results.
If you want to minimize scrolling in the search results, switch to the list view, located in the lower right corner of the GP Pane...
Please respond with comments and questions.
Thank you, Barbara
@BBicking1 Thank you for checking in with the devs!
Could we get a checkbox to exclude unlicensed tools from the search?
"Then there is the issue of someone having a license for XYZ and forgetting they hid it or someone hid it on them"
@DanPatterson This may have been an issue with Concurrent Use licenses in the past, but is most likely no issue anymore with Named User licenses that are usually not changed once assigned.