idea Batch attachment export in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Batch attachment export

MarkSmith1 — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:55:23 GMT

There are new tools in 10.1 to do a batch attachment but there are times where it would be useful to export out all the attachments associated to selected features in a featureclass. At the moment the only way to save attachments to file is to click on each feature and use the attachment manager to save the file(s). This is very tedious and slow if you're dealing with hundreds of features or hundreds of attachments.

Re: Batch attachment export

JackZHANG — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:39:53 GMT

Also when bulk export it would be nice to automatially rename the photos to inlcude the feature's unique ID or allow user to create an expression using fields to create the names for exported attachments.

Re: Batch attachment export

JustonManville — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:04:52 GMT

agreed

Re: Batch attachment export

JustinHarris1 — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:30:02 GMT

Agreed.

Re: Batch attachment export

GISAdministrator4 — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:27:47 GMT

Yes, i agree. I would like this so that we can data collect with images in File GDB's using ArcGIS Mobile, then run bulk export. Would be nice if the bulk export also wrote a table with the unique ID plus the filename. Then this could be used to build a conventional relationship class 'FeatureHas2012InventoryAttachments" with the filename being used as a pointer to the file location.

Re: Batch attachment export

JonahFreeman — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:08:08 GMT

This would be useful so that after an event a folder can be created that contains all images and information regarding the event.

Re: Batch attachment export

KarstenDax — Wed, 29 May 2013 10:00:13 GMT

... and the images should contain all metadata like camera, camera settings, GPS, heading, etc.

Re: Batch attachment export

KarstenDax — Wed, 29 May 2013 10:00:15 GMT

... and the images should contain all metadata like camera, camera settings, GPS, heading, etc.

Re: Batch attachment export

mattwilkie — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:30:42 GMT

these other ideas should be merged with this one:

https://c.na9.visual.force.com/apex/ideaView?id=087E00000004ShgIAE
https://c.na9.visual.force.com/apex/ideaView?id=087E00000004QWqIAM

Re: Batch attachment export

KerissaReedy — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 03:37:46 GMT

Has anyone come up with a solution for the bulk export, python or otherwise, to do a bulk export of the attachments for features?

Re: Batch attachment export

JasonBalmut — Wed, 06 May 2015 19:16:11 GMT

This goes hand-in-hand with this idea about the ability to rename attachments in Collector and would solve the same issue that was brought up back in 2013 in a Knowledge Base article regarding unique names in the batch export process. And maphew was right, this article should merge with Batch Export/Download Attachments from SDE.

Re: Batch attachment export

JonathanPendleton — Thu, 19 May 2016 16:54:09 GMT

Agreed.

Re: Batch attachment export

Gisbert61 — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:58:49 GMT

Agreed, strange that this idea needs so long to be implemented.

Re: Batch attachment export

BruceHarold — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:38:31 GMT

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Re: Batch attachment export

Anonymous User — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:29:12 GMT

I batch exported a bunch of photos from my feature class using the script bruce harold references (better link here).

However that didn't do exactly what I needed it to do, I needed the feature classes ID to be exported with images so that people without ArcGIS could access and understand them. Thus I took this route, a little cumbersome but gets the job done.

created a new field in the attachment table (for this example it will be PT_ID)
join the feature class and the attachment table based on their Global_Id
use field calculator to copy the values of the Feature ID to the new PT_ID field, then remov the join
modify the code sample (reference above), by replacing the AttachmentId field with the PT_ID
run script in order to extract the picture attachments based on their PT_ID

The result is a folder of jpeg's, named with the PT_ID and the Photo number

Re: Batch attachment export

TimoWidbom — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:49:18 GMT

This batch export attachments from a feature class script gives an error with ArcMap 10.5.1:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "E:\GIS\riverpoints\ExportAttachments.py", line 12, in <module>
filename = filenum + str(item[1])
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

Failed to execute (ExportAttachments).

Re: Batch attachment export

DonPritt — Fri, 25 May 2018 15:51:36 GMT

This idea has been posted since 2012, is there any progress as to exporting attachments using a selected table field name and exporting to a folder?

I have multiple photos per feature and would be nice to export to a folder on my computer with an associated name,

I would probably black out from the excitement of actually accomplishing this....would be huge.

Re: Batch attachment export

CurtisDeVault — Tue, 29 May 2018 13:56:39 GMT

Don, one of the easiest methods I have come up with is to rename the attachment in the attachment table using whatever convention you like. You just have to make sure that it is unique. Then using the simple script that's been linked to above, it'll export your attachments using the attachment name that you have changed. I usually join the attachment table to my feature class table and use values from that concatenated together to create my file names.

Re: Batch attachment export

MichaelKelly — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:33:28 GMT

Another script is available which downloads attachments directly from hosted Feature Layers in ArcGIS Online: Downloading Feature Layer Attachments via the ArcGIS API for Python

It's likely I'll enhance this in the coming months to allow users use an attribute as part of the attachment output name, and also make it available as a toolbox for ArcGIS Pro.

Re: Batch attachment export

MichelleTotman — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 23:11:48 GMT

I have used a couple of different variants of this Python script. The only issue I have had with it is that it throws an unclear error when encountering corrupted attachment files.