topic fundamental understanding of publishing arcpy to server in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/fundamental-understanding-of-publishing-arcpy-to/m-p/530147#M5748 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm hoping someone can she's some light on this. In nearly every example of creating a web based solution for leveraging arcpy, the current user display passes the extent and AOI, etc to the mxd as parameters. Is that always needed?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a ddp enabeled mxd and an arcpy script which accesses that max to submit a unique id corresponding to the index layer which updates the mxd to that desired page....it also happens to update a dynamic table.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Why can't I just roll that script up in a gp service and add it as a tool in my flex app. All the user would supply is the desired page/ id when promoted and a per is produced...the web client wouldn't supply any other parameter. Is it just that simple, or am I missing something?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:26:46 GMT ZacharyHart 2012-11-22T16:26:46Z fundamental understanding of publishing arcpy to server https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/fundamental-understanding-of-publishing-arcpy-to/m-p/530147#M5748 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm hoping someone can she's some light on this. In nearly every example of creating a web based solution for leveraging arcpy, the current user display passes the extent and AOI, etc to the mxd as parameters. Is that always needed?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a ddp enabeled mxd and an arcpy script which accesses that max to submit a unique id corresponding to the index layer which updates the mxd to that desired page....it also happens to update a dynamic table.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Why can't I just roll that script up in a gp service and add it as a tool in my flex app. All the user would supply is the desired page/ id when promoted and a per is produced...the web client wouldn't supply any other parameter. Is it just that simple, or am I missing something?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:26:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/fundamental-understanding-of-publishing-arcpy-to/m-p/530147#M5748 ZacharyHart 2012-11-22T16:26:46Z Re: fundamental understanding of publishing arcpy to server https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/fundamental-understanding-of-publishing-arcpy-to/m-p/530148#M5749 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Sorry for misspelling...no way to edit in mobile forums and Droid won't let me access full site for postings.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:30:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/fundamental-understanding-of-publishing-arcpy-to/m-p/530148#M5749 ZacharyHart 2012-11-22T16:30:26Z Re: fundamental understanding of publishing arcpy to server https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/fundamental-understanding-of-publishing-arcpy-to/m-p/530149#M5750 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Yes, it can be that simple. If you dont need the extent, layers, client side graphics, etc of the map in your web app, you dont need to use </SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/#/ConvertWebMapToMapDocument/00s30000006n000000/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ConvertWebMapToMapDocument</A><SPAN>.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:19:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/fundamental-understanding-of-publishing-arcpy-to/m-p/530149#M5750 JeffMoulds 2012-11-27T18:19:08Z