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PYthon Script No Longer Works Correctly

TerryHiggins1 — Wed, 29 May 2013 18:50:56 GMT

First let me state that I am not very experienced with Python. I had captured a script from ESRI that I think I might have tweaked. However the script worked fine to produce output in a text file. Now when I run it whether intereactive or from a script all I get is a listing of the MXDs within the interactive window and in the text file I basically get the header information and nothing more. The last time I ran this was in August last year.
Can someone assist me in identifing what I am doing wrong or what might have changed?
Note I am running 10.1 on Win7
Thanks in advance
Terry

Re: PYthon Script No Longer Works Correctly

ThaiTruong — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 19:04:43 GMT

You also need to modify:

#Read input parameters from GP dialog
    folderPath = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)

to:

#Read input parameters from GP dialog
    folderPath = parentDir

Also, making sure there's a "PyTest" folder under your C drive for this to work.

Re: PYthon Script No Longer Works Correctly

TerryHiggins1 — Fri, 31 May 2013 14:51:56 GMT

Thanks I got it to work. I would like to enhance this script to do some additional things but not sure how to approach. Any chance you could assist on this and point me in the right direction?

1.) Locate a particular FC within the MXD and it's data source
Example - we receive an updated shapefile from the county and want to verify all MXD data sources are pointing to the correct file. I am trying to get all MXDs to use the same geodatabase.

2.) Only report on MXDs that have broken data sources

Re: PYthon Script No Longer Works Correctly

JimCousins — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:51:04 GMT

You need to look at the following link:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00s500000020000000

towards the bottom is a section "Using the arcpy.mapping module to find and repair data links for a number of map documents"

Regards,
Jim