topic Re: Searching the Geoprocessing Model and Script Tool Gallery in Geoprocessing Questions

Searching the Geoprocessing Model and Script Tool Gallery

LT — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:32:02 GMT

Hi Folks,

I was trying to look something up in the Geoprocessing Model and Script Tool Gallery:

http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geoprocessing

And I can't seem to find the old search functionality they had available. For example, you could search on functionality, language, author, etc. The search bar in the upper right corner returns general results for Arc10 help, but I'm interested in searching only within the gallery. The sorting links don't serve my purpose either. It's fine to know the most popular postings, for example, but doesn't aid a problem-driven search. Am I missing something obvious or has ESRI made the scripts gallery site much less useful?

Thanks.

Re: Searching the Geoprocessing Model and Script Tool Gallery

DanPatterson_Retired — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:25:10 GMT

this issue has been raised before
http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=087300000008JQKAA2
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/3363-Where-are-the-ArcScripts-Code-galleries-in-the-ArcGIS-Resource-Centre
join the club

Re: Searching the Geoprocessing Model and Script Tool Gallery

LoganPugh — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:05:33 GMT

Not as good as the old ArcScripts site, but you can use Google's site: specifier like so site:resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geoprocessing and then your search terms. Better than nothing, I suppose.

Example: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aresources.arcgis.com%2Fgallery%2Ffile%2Fgeoprocessing+zip+folder

Re: Searching the Geoprocessing Model and Script Tool Gallery

LT — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:32:23 GMT

this issue has been raised before
http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=087300000008JQKAA2
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/3363-Where-are-the-ArcScripts-Code-galleries-in-the-ArcGIS-Resource-Centre
join the club

Heh. Thanks, Dan. Looks like I arrived late at the party.
It's funny, I'm fairly certain that when they created the new gallery, they still kept had the search functionality of the old one. That means it's not that they haven't gotten around to creating it yet. But rather, they are unexplainably withholding it.

And thanks, Logan, for your post. I always forget how to do that. You're right, often google is better than using an internal site search.

Re: Searching the Geoprocessing Model and Script Tool Gallery

ArnieWaddell — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:48:11 GMT

I can not believe that ESRI did not put a search function in the Scripts gallery. You can always spend your entire week scanning through each page.

Re: Searching the Geoprocessing Model and Script Tool Gallery

RandyKreuziger — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:35:01 GMT

I started a new thread on this over at
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/26774-Searching-the-Script-Tool-Gallery in the "Resource Center Site Feedback" forum. I agree with everything that has been written here about it.