Hi, * I made a python script which is finding min & max values within a specified buffer around specific location and pointing these locations on the map/raster. * This is now configured in a Toolbox as a geoprocessing tool for ArcGIS Pro with configurable parameters. * While running the tool, it is outputting the clipped raster, table (with min max values) and point feature class with min max values with coordinates to show min/max locations on the map. How to add table/raster/feature class which are outputted by the tool directly to file geodatabase? Appreciate for any hints 🙂 * I tired "Add output datasets to an open map" but without success: * I tried as well adding the extra code in the python script (did not output dataset to Contents pane) arcpy.management.MakeFeatureLayer('Min_max_points', 'Min_max_points') arcpy.AddMessage("Min&Max table added to Contents") All these datasets are outputted to file gedatabase but nothing is added to Contents pane

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How to output datasets to an open map/contents pane in ArcPro when running geoprocessing tool

Darius

Hi,

I made a python script which is finding min & max values within a specified buffer around specific location and pointing these locations on the map/raster.
This is now configured in a Toolbox as a geoprocessing tool for ArcGIS Pro with configurable parameters.
While running the tool, it is outputting the clipped raster, table (with min max values) and point feature class with min max values with coordinates to show min/max locations on the map.

How to add table/raster/feature class which are outputted by the tool directly to file geodatabase? Appreciate for any hints 🙂

I tired "Add output datasets to an open map" but without success:

I tried as well adding the extra code in the python script (did not output dataset to Contents pane)

arcpy.management.MakeFeatureLayer('Min_max_points', 'Min_max_points')
arcpy.AddMessage("Min&Max table added to Contents")

All these datasets are outputted to file gedatabase

but nothing is added to Contents pane

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DanPatterson

Make Feature Layer (Data Management)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

The layer that is created by the tool is temporary and will not persist after the session ends unless the layer is saved to disk or the map document is saved.

You don't indicate whether you are using

the python window within Pro, or
a separate python IDE or
whether Pro is open or or closed

when you run the script

Darius

Hi Dan, thanks for prompt reply.

I am running the tool directly from the Toolbox with ArcPro open

When I am running the code snippet directly from Python window

I am getting the result and the dataset (which was saved to file geodatabase on previous tool executions) is added to the Contents window

Any thought about why is it not working when it is executed directly from Toolbox/Geoprocessing?

DanPatterson

try copy features if you have the add to display environment property set properly

Darius

Hello again, not sure here, could you please explain again? Thank you!

DanPatterson

I would call tech support... as soon as you mention "remote server" that might rule out a simple local install issue

ArthurCallan

Did you ever find a solution for this? I am having the exact same issue. Running it as a script tool does not add the data to the Contents. However, running my script in ArcPro's Python Window does output data to Contents Pane.

DanielJager

Any luck? Are you running 2.8? I am having the same issues, I've tried all sorts of things, running arcpy.mp but that seems like it mostly used in python window not script tool.

DanielJager

If you're still working on this, I have found that this works for me.

arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management("SurveyArea_" + date, "Selection_LayerName")[0]
arcpy.SaveToLayerFile_management("Selection_LayerName", "Selection_LayerName.lyrx")
aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("CURRENT")
m = aprx.listMaps("Map")[0]
selection = arcpy.mp.LayerFile("Selection_LayerName.lyrx")
m.addLayer(selection, "TOP")[0]

PICAR40

I do have the same problem and the only solution I found is to use a LayerFile to display the dataset, but it is not very fantastic to proceed like this because the .lyrx must exist. But it is a fact that the Content result of the execution of a geoprocessing tool in the Python consol is not the same as if the geoprocessing tool is executed ftom a Python script. Shame on ESRI to not explain this in the documentation.

radius = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)

pt = point_geometry.projectAs(spatial_reference_mtm7,"NAD_1983_CSRS_To_WGS_1984_2")

pointGeometryList = []
pointGeometryList.append(pt)
arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(pointGeometryList,r"memory\Point_outil42")

#add a cercle (polygon)
arcpy.analysis.Buffer(r"memory\Point_outil42", r"memory\Outil42", radius, "FULL", "ROUND", "NONE", None, "PLANAR")

#adding the contents of the "memory\Outil42" to the Content using a LayerFile
insertLyr = arcpy.mp.LayerFile("Outil42mem.lyrx")
carte.addLayer(insertLyr)

PICAR40

Also this solution to use a LayerFile creates a problem with exportToPDF() because ArcGIS Pro 2.8.1 freeze after creating the PDF file.

StefanBrandt

This topic is already over a year old, but I likewise stumbled upon the same issue.

Has there been a more recent solution to this problem? I'm using a python script in combination with a task element, but since outputs aren't added to the map, some steps in the task don't work properly.

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