how do I add an online style (stylx) to my ArcGIS Pro project?

[davedoesgis]

How do I add a style from ArcGIS Online or Enterprise to my ArcGIS Pro Project? 

This is a total Easter egg that I randomly stumbled upon here in the forums. That question was asking about something very specific, so I wanted to make a more general post. 

[Eugene_Adkins · Accepted solution]

Find a style you like and download to the place of your choosing. Then add the style to your project.

Fairly straightforward. Hope that helps.

[davedoesgis]

Thanks. I've been dumping a bunch of notes on my desktop to this forum, just in case it helps anyone else.  You beat me to it while I was typing/copying my document in here. Your version is very succinct and provides the right breadcrumbs. 

[DanPatterson]

breadcrumbs do lead to the solution, so I will mark this correct as well

[davedoesgis · Accepted solution]

To find styles posted to ArcGIS Online (AGOL) or Enterprise, follow these steps: 

• Open Pro and sign in to AGOL or the Enterprise Portal you want to use. 
• NOTE: I was seeing a lot of symbols in the Living Atlas signed in to AGOL and none using my org's Enterprise Portal. I'm not sure why they wouldn't be the same, but they were. 
• Open the Catalog pane, choose Portal, click on the Living Atlas icon, and type your search term plus "type:style".

You will get a bunch of styles. They may or may not be any good, so you might have to sift through them. If you hover your mouse over one, it will give you a link to its item page, which may have some useful information. 

If you know who published it, you can add that to the search terms: 

To use it, right-click on it. The option "Add Style" is the only menu choice. 

Alternatively, you can download the .stylx file from the AGOL/Portal item page and use it like any other style file: 

It might be more user friendly to do your discovery in a web browser, using the "Styles" filter on the left:

Once you've found a style this way, it should be pretty easy to locate in Pro using the name and owner parameters. 

See here for more info on adding styles to Pro, including Adding a style to all new projects for styles you use all the time. 

If you have a style you want to share to AGOL or Portal, go to the Catalog pane > Styles and right-click on the style. Choose "Share As Web Style" from the context menu. 

The interface for this is similar to sharing a feature layer, so it should be self-explanatory. After that, it becomes an item in AGOL or Portal. If you share it with groups, the org, or publicly, it will be discoverable. 

[DanPatterson]

perhaps you might want to request that self answered questions be posted as a Document or a Blog post in the appropriate forum, since this really isn't a self-answered question (you have others on a similar vein).

Perhaps you can discuss this with the esri Community staff  @JesseCloutier FYI

[davedoesgis]

I did previously inquire about creating blog posts, but was told only Esri staff are allowed to do so. 

I didn't know there could be multiple solutions, so I didn't accept it as the solution in addition to mine, but agreed that this gives you enough to go on.