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Hello @Joshua-Young and @WillyLynch2 , Thank you for your feedback. The goal of this idea was to request the ability for ArcGIS Pro to synchronize an item’s metadata automatically when you view the item’s metadata in the Catalog view. This capability will not be offered in ArcGIS Pro for performance and other considerations (see below). This request is associated with existing Salesforce issues, which have also been closed with the same explanation provided below: BUG-000111922, BUG-000158189, and BUG-000133550. The Pro Help topic mentioned above indicates the observed behavior is expected: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/metadata/view-and-edit-metadata.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_4B54C1395C8047DB952C4EE0EE8687A5. It says “If metadata already exists for the item, it is displayed as-is in the details panel. Its content is not updated automatically for performance reasons.” As Kory also mentioned, when you need to update the properties recorded in an item’s metadata, click the Synchronize button on the Catalog view’s ribbon. Documentation for this process is available here: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/metadata/update-item-properties-in-metadata.htm. Earlier versions of ArcGIS Pro did have the requested capability. However, it was removed because of performance problems and other data management issues that are especially extreme with enterprise geodatabase data such as the problems described in this user idea: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/pro-when-viewing-metadata-do-not-check-quot-show/idi-p/923922. We will not add this capability back to ArcGIS Pro. The ArcGIS Pro metadata synchronization process updates metadata for local, network, and database items. Properties are not updated in metadata for services and portal items. Bounding boxes are calculated for datasets, but never for maps--in both ArcCatalog and in ArcGIS Pro. The appropriate extent for using a map must be defined manually. A map’s extent changes dynamically as you explore its content, and there is nothing preventing someone from zooming in closer or zooming out farther than appropriate for the data in the map or panning to a location where the data is not visible. We are closing this issue for the reasons explained above.  We look forward to more of your feedbacks to help improving ArcGIS Pro. ... View more

Hello @RogerBannister and everyone, With the release of ArcGIS Pro 3.2, you can now filter portal content using a map extent, which would return portal items whose footprint intersects with this map extent:  The spatial relation used in this case is Intersect, same as what you would have on ArcGIS Online.  You also have the additional feature of choosing which map extent you want to use among the open maps in your project (the active map is marked - see the screen capture above).  You can access this Map Extent filter in the Catalog pane, Catalog view, as well as in the Add Data browse dialog where the active map will be the only choice in the Map Extent filter.  For more details on using the Map Extent filter for portal items, please see https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/projects/search-portal-items.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_91B65E1B823C438897ACE7B4CD0E80E4, under the "Use spatial filters" heading. Thank you all for your feedback, and we look forward to more of your input for improving ArcGIS Pro!   ... View more

@SamPalmer Please make sure that you did check "Expand to current location" in the Options dialog box, as in the screenshot in my earlier comment, repeated here: By the way, if "Add a folder connection for locations not in the project" is also checked under "Location bar" above, then the path you pasted in the Catalog view Location bar would automatically be added as a folder connection in your project, and the folder expansion would happen under the Folders project container instead of under This PC.   ... View more

Hi @AndrewWillingale, Thank you very much for catching this!  I have corrected my comment above. ... View more

Hello @TimJohnston5 and everyone, Thank you for your feedback.  With the release of ArcGIS Pro 3.2, we have implemented most of the suggestions in this Idea thread.  In the Catalog pane, Catalog view, and Add Data browse dialog box, if you current location is Living Atlas, you can filter the portal items by Region, by Location, and by Map Extent (besides by Categories, Item Type, Status, and Tags): A note about filtering items by Map Extent: all the maps that are currently open in your project will appear under this filter, for you to choose.  The currently active map is marked.   For more details about using the Region, Location, and Map Extent filters in ArcGIS Pro, please see ArcGIS Pro documentation on "Search the active portal" (https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/projects/search-portal-items.htm#ESRI_SECTION2_1EDA289E3ECE40CD916527EE24657AD2), section "Use spatial filters". About the suggestion for the Status filter of "ESRI Content"  - "Esri Content" is a search option that is available based on the owner of an item, as documented here: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/users-groups-and-items/search-reference.htm. ArcGIS Online does not provide a built-in filter option that lets you search for content provided by Esri, and you are seeing the same thing in ArcGIS Pro. However you can do this search in ArcGIS Pro by typing the following text into the Search text box (which is an example given in the help topic referenced above):     owner:esri About the suggestion on the sorting option "Popularity", again, ArcGIS Online does not have this option per se, and neither does Pro. However there are more specific sorting options related to the concept of "popularity" - Average Rating, and Number of Views, which are the properties that you can sort on in the Catalog view and browse dialogs: For more information on using these sort options, please see https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/projects/use-catalog-views.htm. Thank you all again for your feedback, and we look forward to more of your ideas. ... View more

Hello @Meg_Southee_WCS, and everyone, Thank you for your input.  The functionality that you were requesting in this idea is implemented in ArcGIS Pro 3.2.  In the Catalog view contents list, if you click a container (for example, a folder, or a file geodatabase, or a feature dataset) to browse into it, its parent container in the Catalog view Contents pane would be auto expanded (if it was not expanded already), with the this container selected.  To use this functionality, you need to turn it on in the Options dialog, Catalog Browsing page, under Catalog view, Contents pane.  It is turned off by default. @wayfaringrob, the functionality implemented for @Meg_Southee_WCS's idea is different from what you were requesting in your first comment. But as you mentioned, you already entered a separate idea for it (thank you), and further comment can be entered directly in your idea at  https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/expand-quot-layouts-quot-and-quot-locators-quot-in/idc-p/1197424. As to your second comment in this thread, about the empty Contents pane when you open a table, currently the Contents pane is no longer empty, showing some basic information about the table.  This now is actually the Contents pane for the table view. Thank you all again for your feedback. ... View more

Hello @ThomasColson, and everyone, In ArcGIS Pro you view an item's metadata in the Catalog view’s details panel on the Metadata tab. Once the details panel is open it will remain open until you close it. This is to support equivalency with ArcCatalog, as well as accessibility requirements for using the down arrow on the keyboard to navigate the contents list and see information about data in the current location. Users have asked to easily scan metadata and preview spatial or tabular data in this manner before they add the data to a map, perform analysis, etc. These requirements are in direct opposition to this idea. It seems like the main reason for proposing this idea was poor performance when viewing metadata for items in an enterprise geodatabase. Significant changes have been made to improve performance when browsing enterprise geodatabases in the Catalog view since this idea was first submitted. We specifically focused on improving performance for viewing and managing metadata for enterprise geodatabase items. This is not to say that the most recent versions of ArcGIS Pro are perfect, but they should be better than the versions of Pro that were in use when this idea was submitted. Another way to read this idea is that it should be easier to see some metadata when you are using the Catalog pane without having to switch to the Catalog view. There is another idea requesting the ability to customize the information you see in the Catalog pane’s pop-up. Consider adding your vote to that idea if that is a workflow you would prefer. Regarding the question raised by @MichaelVolz, ArcMap, ArcCatalog, and ArcGIS Pro can all interact with the same metadata in the same enterprise geodatabase and do not interfere with each other. That is, they all read and write metadata in the same ArcGIS metadata format, they use the same metadata editor, and when an item's properties are synchronized to an item's metadata this process is the same. The only difference is that ArcCatalog automatically synchronizes metadata when you view it. ArcGIS Pro does not synchronize metadata automatically for performance reasons, but you can use the Synchronize button on the Catalog view’s ribbon to perform this operation.  With this note, we are closing this idea.  Thank you all for your feedback! ... View more

Hello @MignonWells,  While we have not yet provided this functionality, I would like to mention that, if you want to check the coordinates information for the spatial data item that you are adding to a map, you can see it in  the item's properties - right click the item, and click Properties in the context menu to open the item's Properties dialog.  You will be able to see the Spatial Reference information in the dialog: Thank you very much for your feedback. ... View more

Hello @wayfaringrob, Although it is still in our backlog to support Backspace for navigating to the previous location, we do already support Alt+Left Arrow as a keyboard shortcut for the same function.  (Similarly, Alt+Right Arrow is for navigating forward.)   Also, in Pro 3.2, you can modify the pre-defined keyboard shortcut for a particular action in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog - simply click in the keystroke field and enter the keystroke you prefer. Below, for Go Back, I have changed the keystroke from Alt+Left to Backspace:   Click Save to save your shortcut.  You can restore the default shortcut later as well. Thank you again for your suggestion. ... View more