Latest Contributions by ZacharyUhlmann

Reuben, Sounds like a necessary workaround but frustrating.  I would be curious what your code looks like if you don't mind posting a sample.  I am fervently hacking away at Python ArcGIS API to some success with basic functions.  However I am 90% certain I encountered a bug that seems consistent with other wierd behavior I've noticed.  This from the GIS module, specifically content.search.  I hate how running the same search returns items in random orders each time.  Now my task was to first upload shapfiles, then publish.  In that process I uploaded shapfiles and published chunks at a time based off of tags. Anyways, I am going to put that post up in the form of a question prob over the weekend and I'll throw a link up here to see what you think.  I need to read more background but is the Python API Open Source?   Thanks for the response and the breakdown of the interesting workflow, Zach ... View more

Turns out to be more of an xml parsing problem than Arc.  Swapped out the backslashes \ with forward slashes /.  I used two // for good measure and my Item Description troubles were over.  Good job Zach!  Geonet Community abandoned me, but all is forgiven I still like you guys ... View more

Reuben.  Sorry for the delay.  I'm definitely interested to hear how you solved this.  Odd that you can manually download the feature services but Python is not working - assuming that it's an AGOL issue and not Python (?).  If you want to post your script I'll take a peek.  If you solved it to I would be interested in the solution.  Thanks! Zach ... View more

Of course and...whoops!  I got a little carried away and projected my own issues into your question.  Basically I answered a completely different question.  But those two lines from the Arcgis Python API can be used to log you in programmatically.  Sounds like an interesting endeavor scheduling your code to run independently.  I know the Airflow software (Scheduler — Airflow Documentation ) is popular for scheduling - it's Python and Open Source.  No idea its compatibility with Arc stuff.  But honestly the ArcGIS API is not that hard - don't be intimidated!   ... View more

Hi Amber, I've recently been on the same path and have developed / scrounged / assembled some functionality for adding data to an ArcGIS Online Group I own.  I will provide some Python scripts, BUT you need Python 3 to use the the Python ArcGIS API.  So the code to get you going is minimal, but getting a Python 3 environment may be where the heavy mental lifting and possible exacerbation comes in.  However, I am no computer genius, I simply installed Arc Pro which will install Python 3.  I run my scripts through the command line in Conda environments.  If you are not familiar with the Command Line, I can respond with some instructions on getting started there.  Here is some code you can save in a script and run(<script_name>.py  i.e.  add_to_agol.py) or run from Arc Pro Python console (that exists right?).  Line 5 is where you access your AGOL account, line 37 adds your zipped shapefiles. from ArcGIS.gis import GIS import os # username and password are your ArcGIS Online login credentials your_gis_name = GIS(username = 'your_username', password = 'your_password') print('Connected to {} as {}'.format(your_gis_name.properties.portalHostname, your_gis_name.users.me.username)) # the outDir variable is a path to a folder. The folder will contain one or # more folders with zipped shapefiles (i.e. <filename>.shp, <filename>.prj, etc.) outDir = 'path/to/parent/folder/with/zipped/dirs ' # this will create a list of paths to each zipped feature folder # if zipped subdirs appear in folder as: agriculture.zip, forests.zip, commercial.zip # scandir orders file paths ALPHABETICALLY! So... # zipped_dirs = [path/to/agriculture.zip, path/to/commercial.zip and path/to/forests.zip] zipped_dirs = [subD.path for subD in os.scandir(outDir)] # Make tags, title, snippet # since zipped_dirs will order alphabetically the title, tags and snippets # need to be ordered to match zipped dirs as if they were arranged alphabetically title = ['agricultural lands', 'commercial_property', 'forests'] # tags can be a list of lists if multiple tags per item or a simple list # with strings if just one tag per item tags = [['land_project', 'agricultural'],['land_project', 'commercial'], 'land_project', 'forests'] # snippets snippet = ['some agricultural lands in Kentucky', 'proposed development sites', 'where forests are classified'] # add items to your ArcGIS Online Content for idx, shp in enumerate(zipped_dirs): properties_dict = {'title':title[idx], 'tags':tags[idx], 'snippet':snippet[idx]} fc_item = your_gis_name.content.add(properties_dict, data = shp) ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Here is a link for setting up Python 3 through the Command Line Python and ArcGIS Pro 2.2  That blog also mentions that many people just use Arc Pro, similar to the Python Console in ArcMap I imagine. Dan Patterson has dozens of useful blogs on setting up Python, Pro, Conda, etc.  Dan Patterson .  Here is one that has multiple links to traverse /blogs/dan_patterson/2018/07/01/arcgis-pro-your-conda-environments .  * Note he recently set up a new username if you need future content * And here is the ArcGIS Python API tutorials from which I gleaned those two lines of code using the GIS module Using the GIS | ArcGIS for Developers  Good luck!  Let me know what you find out and where you get hung up... Zach ... View more

Ok.  Might take me awhile to wrap my head around and use them properly.  I know it's simple but there is definitely a union between the two that takes finesse to differentiate.  Thanks Robert!  ... View more

UPDATE: It was indeed a Permissions issue, but a little more nuanced.  The gdb the guy was sharing needed to set Permissions to Organization AND share to my group: KRRP_Geospatial.  I think just the Organization was not sufficient for my purposes and Edit Group Sharing was necessary.  Here are the screenshottted instructions: ... View more

Thanks Lukas (late response by me!!).  I briefly tried your first link awhile back but since then I was able to get going on ArcGIS Pro and easily access the Python ArcGIS API.  The SECOND link you posted includes similar code to mine below in a response by Dong-gyun Kim.  I partially cannibalized parts from this Tutorial on the ArcGIS Python API page - Accessing and managing groups | ArcGIS for Developers.  Here is what I settled on...pseudocode = 1) Prepare lists for Titles, Tags and Snippets. 2) Login to AGOL 3) Upload shapefiles (zipped): # 1) Tags, Titles and Snippets # Create a list for each of the three where len(list) = n shapefiles # 1a) TITLE zipped_dirs = ['full/path/to/file1.zip', 'full/path/to/file2.zip', 'full/path/to/file2.zip'] # Option A - use file names for Title: 'file1.zip' into 'file1' OR do this: title = [dir[:-4] for dir in os.listdir(zipped_dirs)] # Option B - list file names manually/custom # title = ['wetland birds', 'wetland sasquatch', 'wetland skunk cabbage'] # 1b) TAGS # tags get a little wierd because I make a list of lists. I wanted multiple tags # for each shapefile. There are programmatic ways to make lists of lists if # you have a bunch of shapefiles and manual creation is time consuming... tags = [['wetland', 'birds'], ['wetland', 'sasquatch'], ['wetland', 'skunk cabbage']] # 1c) SNIPPETS # snippets could have separate items within the list for each shapefile as well. # For my purposes I was find with the same for each. snippet = ['wetland observation data current as of 7/13/2020'] * len(title) # 2) GIS stuff: login with credentials zach_gis = GIS(username = 'myusername.com', password = 'mypassword') print('Connected to {} as {}'.format(zach_gis.properties.portalHostname, zach_gis.users.me.username)) # Group object for a group. The string of letters, numbers is from url some_group = Group(zach_gis, 'a6384c1111111a43bfd91f5d9723912b') # 3) AGOL Add data to Content and Groups for idx, shp in enumerate(zipped_dirs): properties_dict = {'title':title[idx], 'tags':tags[idx], 'snippet':snippet[idx]} fc_item = zach_gis.content.add(properties_dict, data = shp) fc_item.share(groups = 'a6384c1111111a43bfd91f5d9723912b') ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ ... View more

I should have held off another 10 months - marked the 10 year anniversary of this post.  It worked!!!  Just changed the print statements into  fav_fruit = 'cantalope' print('my favorite fruit is {}'.format(fav_fruit))‍‍‍‍ And good to go --> Python 3.6 ... View more

Thanks Lucas (not the first time you've solved my queries!). Marking this as the tentative solution.  Pretty sure that's my problem.  I'll update if I learn otherwise. ... View more