ArcGIS tool validation: How to add an error message to a parameter if a seperate multivalue parameter is empty

MatthewHowe — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:02:11 GMT

I have three tool parameters;

an input point feature class,
a (multivalue) list of fields derived from the input feature class and
an output file location to export to Excel.

I have filtered the fields derived from the feature so only Short, Long, Float, Double, Text and Date types are accepted. I would like to set the tool validation so that if a point feature class is selected that doesn't contain any fields of said types, an error message will show by the input point feature class parameter. The below code shows where I am at currently however does not present an error message. How do we use multivalue parameters in the validation script of a tool?

def updateMessages(self): """Modify the messages created by internal validation for each tool parameter. This method is called after internal validation.""" if self.params[0].altered and str(self.params[0].value) != "": if not self.params[1].value: self.params[0].setErrorMessage("The selected feature class does not have any fields. Please check and try again.") else: self.params[0].clearMessage() return

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