topic Re: Getting Pythons to run at certain times in Python Questions

Getting Pythons to run at certain times

PrestonStafford — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:19:49 GMT

I have taken my Models and turned them into Python Scripts in my Filedatabase. I want to be able to set those Python's to be able to run at the end of each week to update. My question is do I need to be working in a Arcsde to do so?

Re: Getting Pythons to run at certain times

MichaelVolz — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:33:55 GMT

No just use Windows Scheduled Tasks if you are working in a Windows environment.

Re: Getting Pythons to run at certain times

RussellBrennan — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:09:27 GMT

You do not need to be working in an enterprise (SDE) geodatabase to schedule scripts to run. This can be accomplished via the windows task scheduler on Windows or a cron job on Linux. Below are two links for how to do this on Windows.

Skip to 44:30 in this video to see how to use the task scheduler to call a python script:

Administer Your Enterprise Geodatabase through Python | Esri Video‌

Also, there is a blog post on this here:

Scheduling a Python script or model to run at a prescribed time | ArcGIS Blog

Re: Getting Pythons to run at certain times

XanderBakker — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:36:24 GMT

I've moved your post into the Python space. You will probably get a much more response here. You can see more on the community structure, and what topics are under each space from the following documents:

GeoNet Community Structure

ArcGIS Discussion Forums Migration Strategy

Thanks!

Xander