Changing workspace in modelbuilder

ChristopherJursa — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:58:45 GMT

Hi,

I saw something on ESRI's website about changing paths in modelbuilder.

Say for instance, I have flow accumulation function in my model. The input DEM path is
C:\temp\myGRID

I want to use something like
%workspace%\myGRID

How and where would I set the workspace variable in modelbuilder? I do not want to use a scratch workspace.

Is this the same as the current workspace variable at http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.2/index.cfm?TopicName=Intermediate_data_and_the_scratch_workspace

If so, where do I set it?

Also, is there a way to iterate through a list of workspaces? Again, if so, how?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Changing workspace in modelbuilder

ShitijMehta — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:36:02 GMT

Edit your model.

Go to Model-->Model Properties-->Environments tab-->General and set the curreent workspace environment and the scratch workspace environment there.

Hit OK

Now use current workspace as %workspace% and scratch workspace as %scratchworkspace% in your input and output path respectively.

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Right click anywhere in your model and from the side menu click Create Variable. Create a variable of type workspace. You can rename the variable to anything say: Input Workspace.

Provide the variable a workspace value and use it in other tools as %Input Workspace%.

**Its always recommended that you set the environments at the ArcMap/application level if all your models are using the same workspace.

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Iterate though a list of workspaces or the feature classes and tables inside the workspaces?
What do you want to do by iterating over workspaces?

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Changing workspace in modelbuilder

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