topic arcpy.mapping scripting environment NOT suppressing dialog box - possible bug in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/arcpy-mapping-scripting-environment-not/m-p/3787#M157 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We are getting ready to upgrade our enterprise database to 10.3 which no longer supports application connections.</P><P>So I have written a script that will walk through all mxd files in a directory and replace all the application connections with direct connects.</P><P></P><P>The problem I've encountered...</P><P>When a mxd document has connections that do not save the username and password a dialog box pops up and the script pauses until the dialog box is manually closed.</P><P></P><P>According to Example 4 in ESRIs documentation <A href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/mapdocument.htm" title="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/mapdocument.htm">MapDocument—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A></P><P>We simply need to create a connection using the <A href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/create-arcsde-connection-file.htm" title="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/create-arcsde-connection-file.htm">Create ArcSDE Connection File—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp; tool before calling the MapDocument function.</P><P></P><P>Since my main goal is to use direct connects instead of application connections I am using <A href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/create-database-connection.htm" title="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/create-database-connection.htm">Create Database Connection—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp; instead and it is not suppressing the dialog box.</P><P></P><P>And in the <A href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/listbrokendatasources.htm" title="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/listbrokendatasources.htm">ListBrokenDataSources—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp; documentation it clearly states "<STRONG>The arcpy.mapping scripting environment will, by default, supress these dialogs during execution</STRONG>".</P><P></P><P>This does not seem to be the case and is a major issue when we have hundreds maybe even thousands of mxd files to update.</P><P></P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/group/1759">Esri Technical Support</A> Please advice on how to suppress the dialog in the arcpy.mapping scripting environment.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:42:38 GMT Kathleen_Crombez 2016-01-21T19:42:38Z arcpy.mapping scripting environment NOT suppressing dialog box - possible bug https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/arcpy-mapping-scripting-environment-not/m-p/3787#M157 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We are getting ready to upgrade our enterprise database to 10.3 which no longer supports application connections.</P><P>So I have written a script that will walk through all mxd files in a directory and replace all the application connections with direct connects.</P><P></P><P>The problem I've encountered...</P><P>When a mxd document has connections that do not save the username and password a dialog box pops up and the script pauses until the dialog box is manually closed.</P><P></P><P>According to Example 4 in ESRIs documentation <A href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/mapdocument.htm" title="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/mapdocument.htm">MapDocument—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A></P><P>We simply need to create a connection using the <A href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/create-arcsde-connection-file.htm" title="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/create-arcsde-connection-file.htm">Create ArcSDE Connection File—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp; tool before calling the MapDocument function.</P><P></P><P>Since my main goal is to use direct connects instead of application connections I am using <A href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/create-database-connection.htm" title="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/create-database-connection.htm">Create Database Connection—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp; instead and it is not suppressing the dialog box.</P><P></P><P>And in the <A href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/listbrokendatasources.htm" title="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/listbrokendatasources.htm">ListBrokenDataSources—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp; documentation it clearly states "<STRONG>The arcpy.mapping scripting environment will, by default, supress these dialogs during execution</STRONG>".</P><P></P><P>This does not seem to be the case and is a major issue when we have hundreds maybe even thousands of mxd files to update.</P><P></P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/group/1759">Esri Technical Support</A> Please advice on how to suppress the dialog in the arcpy.mapping scripting environment.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:42:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/arcpy-mapping-scripting-environment-not/m-p/3787#M157 Kathleen_Crombez 2016-01-21T19:42:38Z Re: arcpy.mapping scripting environment NOT suppressing dialog box - possible bug https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/arcpy-mapping-scripting-environment-not/m-p/3788#M158 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Can anyone from ESRI comment on this?</P><P>This is a serious show stopper for automating tasks!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:20:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/arcpy-mapping-scripting-environment-not/m-p/3788#M158 Kathleen_Crombez 2016-01-28T17:20:52Z Re: arcpy.mapping scripting environment NOT suppressing dialog box - possible bug https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/arcpy-mapping-scripting-environment-not/m-p/3789#M159 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am adding some more groups for more visibility....</P><P></P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/space/2145">Python</A>​ <A href="https://community.esri.com/space/2030">Developers</A>​ <A href="https://community.esri.com/group/1680">Geodatabase</A>​</P><P></P><P>If this is a show stopper, I would recommend login a case with Technical Support also to possible get to a resolution more quickly.</P><P></P><P>-George</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:26:56 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/arcpy-mapping-scripting-environment-not/m-p/3789#M159 George_Thompson 2016-01-28T17:26:56Z