Server Tool alias?

KevinBell — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:18:49 GMT

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00570000004w000000

This has the following code sample:

import arcpy import time arcpy.ImportToolbox("http://sampleserver1.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/services;Elevation/ESRI_Elevation_World", "viewshedAlias") result = arcpy.Viewshed_viewshedAlias(r'c:\data\inputPoint.shp', "10000 Kilometers") while result.status < 4: print result.status time.sleep(0.2) print "Execution Finished" result.getMessages() arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(result.getOutput(0), 'localResult.shp')

With this sample above, I don't get the alias here. They import the toolbox and give it an alias, but how does the following line know the alias? viewshedAlias is not part of arcpy.

result = arcpy.Viewshed_viewshedAlias(r'c:\data\inputPoint.shp', "10000 Kilometers")

I tried something like this:

arcpy.ImportToolbox(r"http://myserver/arcgis/rest/services;aFolder/aTool", "myTool")

result = myTool(r'C:\gisProject\default.gdb\aPoint', "1000 Feet")

...but it errors saying 'myTool' is not defined. What am I missing about the alias?

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Server Tool alias?