topic Python Assign User Category in ArcGIS Online Questions

Python Assign User Category

Anonymous User — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:16:54 GMT

Hello, I'm trying to assign users that currently don't have categories new categories. I found this command screenshotted below in the docs (https://developers.arcgis.com/python/api-reference/arcgis.gis.toc.html#arcgis.gis.UserManager).

The docs says the categories property can be used to get or set categories. Right now, I'm able to get a user category with this code:

all_users = gis.users.search(query='*', max_users=10) for user in all_users: category = user.categories print(category)

However, I'm trying to set a user's category and my code is:

index = 0 for user in all_users: user.categories = categories[index] # where categories is a list of lists, each nested list contains the corresponding user's new categories ++index

Nothing's happening to the user's category in ArcGIS Online when I run my code and I was wondering if anyone has had experience setting user categories with Python?

Thank you!

Re: Python Assign User Category

PeterKnoop — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:29:32 GMT

I believe categories only supports getting the property for user objects. You can set a user's category using the update() method.

Re: Python Assign User Category

Anonymous User — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:36:34 GMT

Thanks Peter, I'll give this a try!

Re: Python Assign User Category

Anonymous User — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:37:26 GMT

Thanks Peter, I was having some issues with my arcgis version but once I updated it, I could use the update() method and successfully assigned categories!

Re: Python Assign User Category

RobertWeber — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:40:43 GMT

Got it to apply finally. Here is what worked for me using the user.update()

user.update(categories = ["/Categories/States/Colorado"])

I was trying to apply a category that was nested I suppose...

Re: Python Assign User Category

zrobinson_agolpublic — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:29:09 GMT

When I try to use the same code, I get an error that categories isn't a recognized argument for the update() method. But other arguments like description, name, etc. work for me.