Latest Contributions by JeffreySamson

Here is the  actual location of the pictures on my machine: D:\Tool_Demo\Pictures ... View more

The code below is the section of my scrip which saves the picture to a local folder on my computer (path to directory is stored in the variable "picFolder". I was hoping when publishing, these pictures would be stored on a folder somewhere on the Server automatically. I am guessing I must specify a path to a directory on the server..I am not sure what this path would be... Also, you can see that I save the image path as a string in an attribute field called "ImagePath" (via Update cursor) and I use this field to attach these images to each feature. These images don't actually get attached to the feature (like they do if manually attach images in an edit session with ArcMap desktop). Instead just an attachment table is made (second picture). Thanks again. ... View more

Hi Xander , Absolutely no worries. I just appreciate your time and efforts in heartng this out. In response to your answer, I may have take a few step backs as my problem probably begins at an earlier level - just get the geoprocessing tool to work. We have water station locations which are a layer in a map service. We have script which produces a chart from matplotlib. Each produced chart will need to be linked somehow with each station (or each feature) in the water station layer. These images are created in matplotlib and saved as an .png image. Within the desktop environment, the script works great: it plots data which is retrieved from a stand alone table and stores the generated image in a separate folder. Now this is where I am probably missing something entirely...probably something basic: After running this script and publishing it as a geoprocessing service, where do these pictures get saved? The pictures were saved in a separate folder on my local machine when the tool was ran in ArcMap Desktop, but how does this change when the tool is published? Once publishing, is a REST destination automatically created on the server to store the image outputs? I ask because when I run the published tool within ArcGIS Online App, the tool executes and then "fails". At the moment, these images aren't being generated or stored and on the server - this is the first step I have to solve. After I am able to get this tool to make images on the server, then I can start dealing with the issue of accessing there location from the Web App. In other words, set an URL for the images in the Web App..I guess I would somehow have to retrieved the URL for each image. But again, I must get the tool working in the first place. Sorry to back pedel a few steps, but thought I should point out that I am not even able to get the script or geoprocessing tool to work in the Web App yet. I guess that would be step one.. Thanks again for any insight. Jeff ... View more

Xander, Thanks so much for replying. I really appreciate it. The graphs are just  .jpeg images of graphs made in matplotlib. Although not generated in matplotlib, I quickly made a rough graph in arcmap and saved as a jpeg for the purpose of showing what I want to attach to my features. For each point (location) selected within the online application, we need to generate a new graph based on some variables which are provided by the user via a multi-variable string parameter in the python script  (geoprocessing tool in the web app). We can do this via python script but getting this image stored on our server once it is created is where we are at a standstill. We have a server but our knowledge of posting and accessing content on the server is limited.  You mentioned that you can allocated images on the server. This is probably the breakthrough thing we need here. Therefore this is my main question:  Once we create the graph from the python script (which will be a geoprocessing service in the web app), how do we allocate it to the server once the image is created from the script? For the moment we have been posting our content (web map, feature layers, geoprocessing tools) through "share as service" via ArcMap in the desktop environment. I think this would all work out if we could save or post these images to the server from a statement within the script. Then, as you said, we can assign a feature ID and URL to each image once on the server. Hope this made some sense. Its a little difficult explaining a problem that we have limited knowledge on, so you detective work here is much appreciated. Regards, Jefff ... View more