topic Re: 'str' object has no attribute in ArcGIS API for Python Questions

'str' object has no attribute

CherylCollins — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 22:55:37 GMT

Searching through the other messages hasn't helped me with this. I like to figure things out on my own, but I'm stumped. I copied the deep_copy_content part below from a technical article, and only changed item.title to itemid and switched "gis" and "gis2". Otherwise it's the same. "gis" is my target location.

Here's what I'm seeing. I appreciate any suggestions.

Re: 'str' object has no attribute

Anonymous User — Sat, 01 May 2021 00:18:51 GMT

The clone_items function takes a list of Items. It seems like you are passing in the string item ids instead.

It looks like you didn't include the code that initializes the items array so I can't tell if that's the actual issue.

Try something like:

itemid = "xxxxx" # Fetch item from gis item = gis.content.get(itemid) # Clone to gis2 gis2.content.clone_items([item], copy_date=True, search_existing_items=True)

Re: 'str' object has no attribute

Tim_McGinnes — Sat, 01 May 2021 00:28:32 GMT

It looks like you may have left out a crucial line from the script (Link) :

items = gis.content.get(itemid)

If gis is your target and gis2 is your source then it should be:

items = gis2.content.get(itemid)

Try the following:

from arcgis.gis import GIS gis = GIS(<Put your URL here>) # Where it is going to gis2 = GIS(<Put your URL here>) # Where it is coming from itemid = '<Put your ID here>' # The item ID to clone items = gis2.content.get(itemid) def deep_copy_content(input_list): for item in input_list: try: print("Cloning " + item.title) copy_list = [] copy_list.append(item) gis.content.clone_items(copy_list, copy_data=True, search_existing_items=True) print("Successfully cloned " + item.title) except Exception as e: print(e) print("The function has completed") deep_copy_content(items)

Re: 'str' object has no attribute

CherylCollins — Sat, 01 May 2021 01:43:29 GMT

Got it! What worked was adding item = before gis.content.get and replacing copy_list with [item]. I also got an error message about copy_data=True, but I just deleted that and it worked. Thanks for the help. I'm attaching the whole final script. Tim_McGinnes also suggested part of the same answer.

Re: 'str' object has no attribute

JoshSender2 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:02:08 GMT

I'm running into a similar error with my code attempting to do the same thing. @CherylCollins could you post your final code one more time? I'm curious if your last line of code is "deep_copy_content(items)" or "deep_copy_content(item)". Thanks so much!

Re: 'str' object has no attribute

CherylCollins — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:21:01 GMT

Unfortunately, I never got the whole thing to work. I ended up buying to two one-month subscriptions to Admin Tools so I could finally copy over the Story Maps, and even that was not without its problems. I think ESRI really needs to make it easier to transfer Story Maps between organizations. We could be designing great stuff for our clients, but it's not happening.

Re: 'str' object has no attribute

JoshSender2 — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:40:51 GMT

Got it. Yeah that's possibly where I'm heading soon as well. I also have an open case with ESRI Support staff for this issue. If anything comes out of that, I'll be sure to update here. Thanks for the info!