The following article is a step-by-step guide to creating a Player project in ArcGIS Pro 3.x


1. Open an new ArcGIS Pro session

2. Select “Map” under New to create a new map

3. Navigate to the folder you want the project to be stored in and give the Player Project a name

4. Ensure the ‘Create a new folder for this project’ box is unchecked

5. Hit OK - A new map window will open


6. Select the ‘Player’ tab

7. Select ‘Player Project Setup'


8. Select whether to use an existing Player geodatabase, or build a project from scratch and create a new database and CONTINUE (if selecting an existing database the project is setup, the rest of this workflow is for a new project)


9. Select the location for the new geodatabase (the default is the same folder that the project was saved to) and CONTINUE

10. Optionally add a Project Description and CONTINUE

11. Define the Risk Matrix for prospect evaluation. The default is Multiplication - select CONTINUE to accept the default (this can be changed later). Alternatively, to load your corporate risk matrix, select 'Custom' from the 'Risk Structure' drop-down and open the risk matrix file provided by GIS-Pax, select all and copy, then paste to the 'Encoded Risk Matrix' box and CONTINUE 


12. Define the project plays - use the plus icon to add new plays, the right arrow button can be used to make a play a sub-play, and CONTINUE 



13. The Charge Evaluation options allow the user to define how the charge will be evaluated (top down vs bottoms up), which plays contain source rocks, and for the bottom up charge evaluations - which plays will have access to which source rocks. CONTINUE 


14. Define if/how you would like to assess confidence in the project, and CONTINUE 


15. Optionally modify the Criteria for each risk element, this is where what is meant by ‘Present’, ‘Ambiguous’ and ‘Not Present’ can be defined. This helps ensure consistency in evaluation between multiple users and the definitions will appear in the Player Wells dialog, and CONTINUE 


16. This is the Milton and Bertram classification of trap styles that will be available through the project and will usually be left as these defaults, and CONTINUE


17. Optionally define the depositional settings most likely to be encountered in the study and add them to a ‘Quickpick’ list. This list can be edited at any time. CONTINUE


18. Optionally select a Quickpick list of structural styles likely to be encountered in the study in the same way as for paleogeography above. CONTINUE 


19. Select the units to be used throughout the project. CONTINUE 


20. Select FINISH - project is now setup and the dialog can be closed. The project is now ready for data to be added and evaluated.