Option to Close Project
Hi Kory,
Well, right now, I am working on a developing a complex application. There is one primary map service with a lot of layers and I often open it up, inspect some data or try out some symbology changes. Then, I want to discard all the changes and reopen the map as it was previously saved. I could just undo all changes. I could do what Rhett said. However, I feel like the way Microsoft Office does it is pretty good. They have a Close option under the File menu like this:
I am proposing the same type of Close option. They also have a Close command that you can add to your Quick Launch toolbar. So, I have the following on my toolbar:
I have New, Open, Save, Save As, and Close. If I have multiple Excel spreadsheets open, I like having the Close option next to New and Open. These are the main operations. In ArcGIS Pro, however, there is no gray screen like when you close all open spreadsheets. You can close the whole window using the X in the upper right hand corner. My brain tells me why do I want to close out completely and reload ArcGIS Pro into memory. I just want to close the project, not ArcGIS Pro.
So, if I could go to the Project tab, click on Close, and then go back to the initial launch screen for ArcGIS Pro that has all the Recent Projects listed, I could reopen the same project in three clicks. Also, if there was a Close command in the software, I could add it to my Quick Launch toolbar in ArcGIS Pro. That would mean that I could close the project from wherever I was working, see the Recent Projects list immediately, click that project again or a different one, and move along my way without unloading a lot of memory and reloading it.
This would require the concept of closing a project that doesn't completely shut down an ArcGIS Pro window. Who knows what's really going on in the background, but it appears like each window is an instance of ArcGIS Pro. So if I could reopen my project in two clicks, that would be great. I think this also applies to closing my current project without saving and opening a different project. I guess you need to add on another click to not save any changes to the project, but that is unavoidable.
I am trying to keep that project that I publish the service from very clean. I even have it in source control. I could make a copy of it, but it's in recent files often times. If I mess it up, I can discard changes in GitHub. So, I am totally happy playing around with it and discarding changes. However, I make changes for a lot of reasons related to application development.
