Latest Contributions by StefKoroblitsas

Hi i have a Python Question, sorry if this is really easy (or impossible) I've got alot of ArcGIS online photos to extract and want to give them a name them from the feature class, not from the relationship table. (if i could have added a field in the table it would be easy but the Basic version of ArcGIS doesnt allow me to edit tables with relationship classes). Is there a way to tweak the python script below to instead of naming it as a combination of ATT_NAME and Global ID, that i could tell it to lookup the global id of the attachments table (Sample_Locations_ATTACH) to matching global ID in the point feature class (Sample_Locations) and name the photo as a field called Sample_ID + ATT_NAME? Cheers, Stef import os, arcpy tbl = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) fldBLOB = 'DATA' fldAttName = 'ATT_NAME' outFolder = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1) with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(tbl,[fldBLOB,fldAttName, "GLOBALID"]) as cursor:    for row in cursor:       binaryRep = row[0]       fileName = row[1].split(".")[0]       extension = row[1].split(".")[1]       # save to disk       open(outFolder + os.sep + fileName + "_{0}.{1}".format(row[2], extension), 'wb').write(binaryRep.tobytes()) del cursor‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ ... View more

Hi, I'm looking to create a python script that will update a folder of mxds together. I have designated 6 TEXT_ELEMENTS in my titleblock to be updated using  arcpy.GetParameterAsText()  but will just use 1 for this question. Below is my text for updating the text element if i were to only update one .mxd which as the top line says only edits the current .mxd that is open. thisMap = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") myDF = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(thisMap) [0] myLayers = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(myDF) newProjectTitle = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) myElements = arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(thisMap, "TEXT_ELEMENT") for element in myElements:    if element.name == "ProjectTitle":        element.text = newProjectTitle arcpy.RefreshActiveView() Then using a script in a custom toolbox, i can input the new Project title, and it update the MXD. (not very useful yet as i could just click on the text element itself and update it manually) However i would like to take it further and update not just the current .mxd, but all my .mxds in a specified folder and  (using path = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)) It will save ample amounts of time as there are projects where i will need to manually open x amount of .mxds to rename a Text element in all of them that has been incorrectly named. I was wondering if anyone could help me with the python code as im quite new to python and don't know what i am doing: 1)   specifying the folder to open using path = arcpy.GetParameterAsText 2)  creating a list of all the .mxds in said folder (like below? not sure if this is the best method) iteLog=open(path+"\FileListLog.txt","w") for fileName in os.listdir(path):     fullPath = os.path.join(path, fileName)     if os.path.isfile(fullPath):         basename, extension = os.path.splitext(fullPath)         if extension == ".mxd":             writeLog.write(fullPath+"\n")             mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(fullPath)             print fileName + "\n" del mxd print "Done" writeLog.close() 3)  specifying the text_element(s) to be updated 4) cycling through (via the script) each .mxd in the list and updating the specified text_element, then saving, closing and opening the next on the list. (this would be the main part im confused with) Thanks in advance and let me know if i haven't provided enough information! Stef ... View more