topic Re: User Categories in ArcGIS Online Questions

User Categories

John_Spence — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 21:54:05 GMT

Has anyone found either in python or via JSON where you can update a user's category?

Re: User Categories

Anonymous User — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:25:26 GMT

Hi John, were you able to find a solution? I'm currently trying to update a user's category via python but my commands aren't working

Re: User Categories

John_Spence — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:11:27 GMT

Negative....that pattern remains unfilled. 😉

Re: User Categories

PeterKnoop — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:56:40 GMT

The documentation for the User update() method indicates it now supports setting categories in the latest version of the ArcGIS API for Python.

Re: User Categories

John_Spence — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 15:00:55 GMT

Well call me surprised. I was looking for that the other day and didn't see it. Outstanding news! Thanks for finding it and passing along the info Peter. 🙂

Re: User Categories

RobertWeber — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:14:01 GMT

This works on the actual user but I am having issues getting it to actually add it to the categories listed in my Organization level Members page.

Re: User Categories

RobertWeber — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:21:36 GMT

So in other words it indicates that it should work and it does sort of...but not really

Re: User Categories

Theisen — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 20:19:58 GMT

@RobertWeber I am running into the same thing. It says it assigned the category in their profile settings but I don't see it as an option in the organization members tab filter side panel.

Have you found a workaround or solution to this?

Re: User Categories

RobertWeber — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:06:33 GMT

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

@TheisenThis finally started working for me. Seems like it just takes a minute at times for it to show in the org level categories.

Re: User Categories

Theisen — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:30:15 GMT

Thanks Robert. I ended up finding something on Github that also worked using the UserManager helper class. Below is the code snippet I grabbed from that thread.

from arcgis.gis import GIS gis = GIS("home")

cat_users = gis.users.search(query='username:student_user_2')

print(cat_users)

gis.users.assign_categories(users=cat_users, categories=["/Categories/test"])