topic Enable a tool dialog box to display selected values from a related attribute table in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/enable-a-tool-dialog-box-to-display-selected/m-p/134594#M10548 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi there,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I guess I am probably trying to stretch python too far but what I want to do is create a user interface that makes it easier to edit several datasets and some that have related tables.&nbsp; I can quite easily automate updating the datasets and relates from user input in my dialog using search cursors and update cursors&nbsp; but what I am having trouble with is exposing the existing values of the selected set to a user in a dialog box.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I thought that the validation dialog box would be the best place to start but I need to ensure the user only has a few records or 1 and when I do a GetCount operation in the validation script everytime I simply touch the tool (not even open it) it seems to go into a get count loop.&nbsp; I'm guessing ArcObjects is probably the best way forward with this but it's a long time since I've done any ArcObjects and it seems annoying that the rest of the solution works so well in Python.&nbsp; I am working in ArcGIS 10 on a personal geodatabase for testing and will then migrate solution to ArcSDE and oracle.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any thoughts on most effective way to do this would be much appreciated.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Suzanne</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:51:20 GMT SuzanneSlegers 2013-08-21T22:51:20Z Enable a tool dialog box to display selected values from a related attribute table https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/enable-a-tool-dialog-box-to-display-selected/m-p/134594#M10548 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi there,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I guess I am probably trying to stretch python too far but what I want to do is create a user interface that makes it easier to edit several datasets and some that have related tables.&nbsp; I can quite easily automate updating the datasets and relates from user input in my dialog using search cursors and update cursors&nbsp; but what I am having trouble with is exposing the existing values of the selected set to a user in a dialog box.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I thought that the validation dialog box would be the best place to start but I need to ensure the user only has a few records or 1 and when I do a GetCount operation in the validation script everytime I simply touch the tool (not even open it) it seems to go into a get count loop.&nbsp; I'm guessing ArcObjects is probably the best way forward with this but it's a long time since I've done any ArcObjects and it seems annoying that the rest of the solution works so well in Python.&nbsp; I am working in ArcGIS 10 on a personal geodatabase for testing and will then migrate solution to ArcSDE and oracle.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any thoughts on most effective way to do this would be much appreciated.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Suzanne</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:51:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/enable-a-tool-dialog-box-to-display-selected/m-p/134594#M10548 SuzanneSlegers 2013-08-21T22:51:20Z