Error: 001369 when publishing Geoprocessing Service with File output on ArcGIS Server 10.7.1

Question

Hello there Normally, it should be possible to create a geoprocessing-service which creates a text file with the script below: import os # input variable of type String input_from_client = str(arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)) file_path = os.path.join(arcpy.env.packageWorkspace, "test.txt") text_file = open(file_path,"w") text_file.write(input_from_client) text_file.close() # Output variable of type file arcpy.SetParameter(1, text_file.name)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ A service created with the above code can be published without problems to ArcGIS Server 10.6.1 But when I try to publish the same service on a Machine with ArcGIS Server 10.7.1, I get the following error(s): WARNING 15 Oct 2020 14:51:50 Thumbnail is not avaliable on this layer Conservation_forest_province Rest SEVERE 15 Oct 2020 14:51:43 Error executing tool. PublishServiceDefinition Job ID: j323c6e9585524bc7973f7b1cd3f948f8 : ERROR 001369: Failed to create the service. Failed to execute (Publish Service Definition). Failed. Failed to execute (Publish Service Definition). System/PublishingTools.GPServer SEVERE 15 Oct 2020 14:51:43 Delegate job failed. System/PublishingTools.GPServer SEVERE 15 Oct 2020 14:51:41 Error executing tool. PublishServiceDefinition Job ID: j267b052ffdcd47e5bcda9064e9e151df : ERROR 001369: Failed to create the service. Failed to execute (Publish Service Definition). System/PublishingToolsEx.GPServer SEVERE 15 Oct 2020 14:51:41 Failed to create the service. System/PublishingToolsEx.GPServer SEVERE 15 Oct 2020 14:51:41 Failed generating the service definition name mapping. System/PublishingToolsEx.GPServer SEVERE 15 Oct 2020 14:51:41 Failed to add the dbMapping object. System/PublishingToolsEx.GPServer SEVERE 15 Oct 2020 14:51:41 Failed to add the dsMapping object. System/PublishingToolsEx.GPServer SEVERE 15 Oct 2020 14:51:41 Invalid manifest. Unable to find dataset in extracted geodatabase. System/PublishingToolsEx.GPServer WARNING 15 Oct 2020 14:51:29 Metadata is not avaliable on this layer Conservation_forest_province Rest‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Any idea what I can try to make it work on the 10.7.1 Server as well? Is it possible that I have to define the file path differently? I would be very thankful for help or advise.

LukasWürsch · Accepted Answer

Apparently, arcpy.env.packageWorkspace is not the ideal way to define tool output folders, I used arcpy.env.scratchFolder instead: import arcpy import os input_from_client = str(arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)) file_path = os.path.join(arcpy.env.scratchFolder, "test.txt") text_file = open(file_path,"w") text_file.write(input_from_client) text_file.close() arcpy.SetParameter(1, text_file.name) ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ That does not fix the 001369 Error though. The solution for me was 1. Create a new Project 2. Create a new Script in the Project's toolbox which uses the above script. Then, it was possible to publish the service successfully