Possible bug in 10.0 with lyr's datasource

RandyKreuziger — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:34:35 GMT

While using ESRI's MultiMXDReport.py tool I noticed that the value returned using lyr.dataSource is wrong in all the MXDs where I manually changed data sources! First off these are 9.3.1 MXDs edited with 9.3.1 ArcGIS Desktop. We moved over to a new server so I went into each MXD and changed layer source through Properties | Source | Set Data Source. We do have 10.0 sp2 on a PC so I decided to generate a report using MultiMXDReport.py to verfity that all layers are pointing to the correct data source. Unfortunately, all the data sources kept their original values making it useless.

LAYER: LN
Group Layer Path: Level 10-9 \LN
Source: C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxxxxxx\Application Data\ESRI\ArcCatalog\PHSDev_ManagerAtPHSonDev.sde\PHS.DBO.WDFW_PHSPLUS_LN_SV
Dataset type: Unknown (could be a broken data source)
Query Definition: None

Reference each layer in a data frame
lyrList = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd, "", df)
for lyr in lyrList:
    outFile.write("\n")
    outFile.write("\t\t LAYER: " + lyr.name + "\n")
    outFile.write("\t\t\t Group Layer Path:  " + lyr.longName + "\n")
    if lyr.supports("dataSource"):
        outFile.write("\t\t\t Data Source:       " + lyr.dataSource + "\n")
        try:
            outFile.write("\t\t\t Dataset type:      " + arcpy.Describe(lyr.dataSource).datasettype + "\n")
        except:
            outFile.write("\t\t\t Dataset type:     Unknown (could be a broken data source) \n")
    else: outFile.write("\t\t\t Data Source:       N/A \n")

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