topic Re: Unable to Generate PDF Reports with Python in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Unable to Generate PDF Reports with Python

ColtonSnelling1 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:52:39 GMT

I am trying to automate the report generation of a survey123 survey.

I have tried both in my orgs AGOL Notebooks as well as in a dedicated python IDE (PyCharm in this case, changing the GIS parameters accordingly).

The Notebook keeps saying it is generating a zip in a tmp location. I cannot find that location, and I need it to output PDFs not in a zip file.

Here is my code:

import arcgis from arcgis.gis import GIS gis = GIS("home") survey_manager = arcgis.apps.survey123.SurveyManager(gis) survey_by_id = survey_manager.get("mySurveyID") template = survey_by_id.report_templates[0] pdf_report = survey_by_id.generate_report(template, output_format="pdf") print("Single report as PDF: ", pdf_report)

Re: Unable to Generate PDF Reports with Python

ClayDonaldsonSWCA — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 23:23:56 GMT

You are missing a couple of parameters to help control the output.

Review the SurveyManager.generate_report docs
- You should specify a `where` parameter, otherwise it will return a zip file of all records
- You should also use the `save_folder` parameter to specify where it should be saved

Re: Unable to Generate PDF Reports with Python

ColtonSnelling1 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:34:07 GMT

If I am always generating/downloading at least 2 reports at a time, is it always going to be a zip file?

Re: Unable to Generate PDF Reports with Python

ClayDonaldsonSWCA — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:21:32 GMT

yes if your query is set-up that way. Two solutions to that:

Set up another function to query the data and get a list of object ids. Then use a `for` loop to generate a single report per objectid. (doesnt have to be object id, could be any unique value)
Use python module zipfile to extract the pdfs