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Organizing of Maps within a Project

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03-30-2017 11:21 AM
Status: Under Consideration
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HannahShepherd1
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Providing a feature in the Project Contents to allow a user to organize their Maps would create more room for ArcPro implementation within a teams workflow structure. This could be a similar platform to Window Explorer where a user as the ability to create folders as well as see the last time a map was modified. Subsequently, a dynamic text referencing the map location within multiple folder would be of great use as well. 

Fingers Crossed!

PS - My team's current ArcMap workflow contains multiple .mxd files within tiered folder locations for each development project with a .mxd document path file reference in the layout. Our workflow transition from ArcMap to ArcPro would be almost full strength should the map organization become better in ArcPro.

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BlairPellegrino

Agreed!  That functionality would be super useful for both maps and layouts.  Currently I rely on naming conventions to 'group' maps and layouts, but this can lead to a very long list for a project with lots of mapping requirements.  The ability to create subfolders would be great!

SRK
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My peers and i were so confused when switching to pro that such a simple but big quality of life improvment was not implemented from the start, but to see it took 4 years to consider it and has been put into the backlog for over 3 years now...