topic Re: Python to open shp files and populate metadata across directories in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-to-open-shp-files-and-populate-metadata/m-p/204640#M15731 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Peter,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Incorporate the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//001200000012000000">Upgrade Metadata</A><SPAN> tool into your script and this should create the XML file.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:06:28 GMT JakeSkinner 2014-01-09T10:06:28Z Python to open shp files and populate metadata across directories https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-to-open-shp-files-and-populate-metadata/m-p/204639#M15730 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; I am looking for some input regarding Python scripting. (Win 7 x64, Python 2.7, Arc 10.1)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; Our office outputs numerous shp files from other software that only creates .shp, .dbf, .shx files. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; The requirement is to have the shp files 'open' in arccatalog thus creating most of the metadata (.xml) needed to meet our quality system. I can then harvest the metadata and import it to geoportal. (well I think i can)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; I have copied/cut/pasted parts together to create a python script that searches directories for .shp and writes the result to a csv file. That script works just fine for that process however I would like to know how/if it is possible to get it to do the arccatalog bit??</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers, Peter</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:27:22 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-to-open-shp-files-and-populate-metadata/m-p/204639#M15730 PeterShoemark 2014-01-08T23:27:22Z Re: Python to open shp files and populate metadata across directories https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-to-open-shp-files-and-populate-metadata/m-p/204640#M15731 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Peter,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Incorporate the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//001200000012000000">Upgrade Metadata</A><SPAN> tool into your script and this should create the XML file.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:06:28 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-to-open-shp-files-and-populate-metadata/m-p/204640#M15731 JakeSkinner 2014-01-09T10:06:28Z Re: Python to open shp files and populate metadata across directories https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-to-open-shp-files-and-populate-metadata/m-p/204641#M15732 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks Jake, I will give that a fly. (Note at this stage the files are .shp still not in mxd so I may have to mess around a bit with wild cards)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers, Peter</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:27:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-to-open-shp-files-and-populate-metadata/m-p/204641#M15732 PeterShoemark 2014-01-09T20:27:20Z Re: Python to open shp files and populate metadata across directories https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-to-open-shp-files-and-populate-metadata/m-p/204642#M15733 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>after you have your python script generating the metadata, you can use the desktop publication add-in to publish the metadata to a geoportal server using the <A href="https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server/wiki/Geoportal-Publish-Client">Geoportal Publish Client</A> downloadable from GitHub</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 27 Jul 2014 09:09:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-to-open-shp-files-and-populate-metadata/m-p/204642#M15733 MartenHogeweg 2014-07-27T09:09:29Z