topic How to update/reset users.categories in ArcGIS API for Python Questions

How to update/reset users.categories

AndreasEugster — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:27:34 GMT

Hi,

Is there a way to reset the gis.users.categories? Or update / remove specific entries in the memberCategorySchema?

gis.users.categories = None

will delet all the user-categories, but reloading a memberCategorySchema will fail afterwards.

gis.users.categories = {'memberCategorySchema': [ {'title': 'Categories','categories': [{'title': 'bla','categories': [{'title': 'bli','categories': [{'title': 'blu'}]}]}]}]}

self._gis.users.categories[0]["categories"]
IndexError: list index out of range

Re: How to update/reset users.categories

David_McRitchie — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:16:06 GMT

Hey Andreas have you tried using gis.content.categories.delete()?

Based on the documentation you may need to fully remove the the category schema, remake and reassign this.

Hope that helps,

David

Re: How to update/reset users.categories

AndreasEugster — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:09:55 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.
Your answer refers to content-categories... I'm talking about user-categories and the "memberCategorySchema". There is no gis.users.categories.delete()...

Re: How to update/reset users.categories

Clubdebambos — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 08:32:35 GMT

Hi @AndreasEugster

I am using arcgis api version 2.2.0.1 and I have no issue with the following.

Create a user category schema

from arcgis.gis import GIS agol = GIS("home") user_schema = { "memberCategorySchema": [ { "title": "Office Location", "categories": [ { "title": "USA", "categories": [ { "title": "Maine" }, { "title": "California", "categories": [ { "title": "Redlands" }, { "title": "San Diego" } ] } ] }, { "title": "Europe", "categories": [ { "title": "Zurich" }, { "title": "Edinburgh" } ] } ] }, { "title": "Department", "categories": [ { "title": "Sales" }, { "title": "Consulting" } ] } ] } agol.users.categories = user_schema

Print to test... I wont add results put it prints fine

from arcgis.gis import GIS agol = GIS("home") print(agol.users.categories)

Delete the schema

from arcgis.gis import GIS agol = GIS("home") agol.users.categories = None

Re-print, it returns None.

Re-assign a new schema.

from arcgis.gis import GIS agol = GIS("home") user_schema = { 'memberCategorySchema': [ { 'title': 'Categories', 'categories': [ { 'title': 'bla', 'categories': [ { 'title': 'bli', 'categories': [ { 'title': 'blu' } ] } ] } ] } ] } agol.users.categories = user_schema

Printing new schema works just fine.

from arcgis.gis import GIS agol = GIS("home") print(agol.users.categories[0]["categories"]) ##prints [{'title': 'bla', 'categories': [{'title': 'bli', 'categories': [{'title': 'blu'}]}]}]

Re: How to update/reset users.categories

AndreasEugster — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:05:21 GMT

Hi @Clubdebambos

Strange... Can you confirm that the snippet works if you re-assign the schema directly after setting it None without "reconnecting" to GIS("home")?

from arcgis.gis import GIS agol = GIS("home") agol.users.categories = None user_schema = { 'memberCategorySchema': [ { 'title': 'Categories', 'categories': [ { 'title': 'bla', 'categories': [ { 'title': 'bli', 'categories': [ { 'title': 'blu' } ] } ] } ] } ] } agol.users.categories = user_schema ## results in error?! ## however with "reconnecting before re-assigning" it works: # agol = GIS("home") # agol.users.categories = user_schema

why the "re-connection"?

Re: How to update/reset users.categories

Clubdebambos — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 17:10:50 GMT

Hi @AndreasEugster

What error are you getting? It it this...

ValueError: A list or tuple must be given to set the categories.

I get this error if the categories is already set to None. Worked around it with the below.

from arcgis.gis import GIS agol = GIS("home") ## only update to None if it is not already None if agol.users.categories != None: agol.users.categories = None user_schema = { 'memberCategorySchema': [ { 'title': 'Categories', 'categories': [ { 'title': 'bla', 'categories': [ { 'title': 'bli', 'categories': [ { 'title': 'blu' } ] } ] } ] } ] } agol.users.categories = user_schema print(agol.users.categories)

Re: How to update/reset users.categories

AndreasEugster — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 07:34:01 GMT

Hi @Clubdebambos

As soon as the users.categories are None I can not reasign the schema anymore... unless I'm reconnecting to agol once more (agol = GIS("home")) before asigning the schema. Doing it in one run without reconnecting results in the error: ...in categories
for category in self._gis.users.categories[0]["categories"]:
IndexError: list index out of range

I'll try with the latest arcgis api version 2.2.x (rigthnow using 2.1.x) and also outside our internal-network. I'll provide an update later 🙂

Re: How to update/reset users.categories

AndreasEugster — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 08:18:24 GMT

Seems to work with 2.2.0.x 👍
Did not check if internal-network or 2.1.x was the issue tho.