Embedding Toolboxes in ArcGIS Pro

[BenRalph]

UPDATE: Moved question to ArcGIS Pro SDK and mentioning Uma Harano‌ as the author of the embedded toolbox article.

I'm following the instructions to embed a toolbox in arcgis pro here, but am getting mixed results. In Visual Studio I've created the esriAddinX with the .tbx, and after starting Pro I can see it has correctly extracted the toolbox into %LocalAppData%\ESRI\ArcGISPro\Toolboxes\GUID\. So far so good.

I'm expecting to see my addin's toolbox listed in Pro's system Geoprocessing toolboxes as per instruction 13 in the guide, but I don't.  What am I missing? I've verified that the extracted toolbox is good, and I've populated everything in the .tbx like alias, name, description, etc.

I haven't tried a python toolbox because I want to have toolsets, but if someone knows the .pyt works, then please let me know and I'll go with that. Any ideas/samples will be greatly appreciated. I'm using ArcGIS Pro 2.4.1.

This screenshot is attempting to show the esriAddinX contents being correctly extracted. 

[KoryKramer]

Maybe posting in the ArcGIS Pro SDK‌ space would be better for this issue specifically.

[Anonymous User]

Hi Ben,

Check in ArcGISPro > settings> add-in manager at options tab, make sure it is load all add-in without restrictions and try with your visual studio again.

Below is the link describe about detail.

https://github.com/esri/arcgis-pro-sdk/wiki/ArcGIS-Pro-Registry-Keys

[BenRalph]

Thanks for the idea, but this did not solve it for me.

[GhislainPrince · Accepted solution]

Hi ben,

 i think your add-in may not be following the expected folder structure.  Review step3 in the embedding toolboxes add-in doc. Your toolbox should go under Toolboxes/toolboxes along with (optional) other folders.

Below is the directory structure for the add-in i created.

cheers

\---Toolboxes

    +---arcpy
    |       DeepThought.py
    |
    +---help
    |   \---gp
    |       |   Answer_deepthought.xml
    |       |   deepthought_toolbox.xml
    |       |
    |       +---messages
    |       |       messages.xml
    |       |
    |       \---toolboxes
    |               DeepThought.xml
    |
    \---toolboxes
            answer.py
            DeepThought.tbx
            sixbynine.py
 

[BenRalph]

Fantastic!  Thank you for taking the time to test and reply. The 'toolboxes' sub-directory was indeed missing. I'll admit that I gave up on Step3 after some confusion. 

Cheers.

[PierreMasson]

It was working great for our addin for a while. Now our custom embedded toolbox is not showing anymore in the toolboxes list.

Everything is there, when de AddIn is registered in arcgis pro the toolbox is copied at the right place 
C:\Users\xxxxxxx\AppData\Local\ESRI\ArcGISPro\Toolboxes\{ad4727d9-54c4-4b77-8c0a-1dd300e409ea}\toolboxes

The toolbox though works fine since If I add it manually in the project I can use all the tools in there. 

But why the toolbox is not showing in the list? How can I refresh the Geoprocessing Tools List?

Please help.

[PierreMasson]

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