topic Re: Group Category Manager in ArcGIS API for Python Questions

Group Category Manager

AmandaReich3 — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:02:03 GMT

I have created a group in my Enterprise portal and shared about 1500 images to this group. I have been trying to write a script to assign categories to each image based on the country code in the image name. According to the ArcGIS Python API, Group objects should have a 'categories' property, but when I attempt to access this via the following (generalized) example:

MyGroup = portal.groups.get('GroupIdNumber')

MyGroup.categories

I get an error stating: 'Group' object has no attribute 'categories'

It appears I should be able to get the CategorySchemaManager through this property and then use the assign_to_items function to complete the process.

I can access the group and its content just fine, but I cannot seem to find a way to access the categories property in order to assign items to the categories.

Is there another way that I can use to assign categories to each item shared with a group?

Thank you!

Re: Group Category Manager

FredericPoliart_EsriAU — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 05:32:13 GMT

Good question,

I have the same challenge, I want to enumerate the sub-categories of a Group
and then list the layers within that groups' category.

THis code doesn't give me any object called "categories"

base = gis._con.baseurl.rstrip("/") + "/community/groups/{gid}/category".format(gid=group_id)
params = {"f": "json", "token": gis._con.token}
r = requests.get(base, params=params, verify=gis._con._verify_cert)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
# data example has 'categorySchema' with nested nodes: {title, categories:[...]}
paths = []

And running group.categories.schema[0]['categories'] seem to enumerate every category

What I need is a programmatical (.py) method to enumerate the Portal > Groups > My Organization's Groups > {select the group} > then select Content > and on the left, I see the categories with a number of layers in each.

HOW DO I GET THIS IN PYTHON!?

Re: Group Category Manager

FredericPoliart_EsriAU — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 07:35:14 GMT

I found a solution!