topic Re: Pythonaddins tool for selecting polygon and export some specific attributes to csv in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/pythonaddins-tool-for-selecting-polygon-and-export/m-p/589566#M46215 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Yamin,</P><P></P><P>I'm not sure if you still have this question. I haven't seen any users that have already created a tool similar to what you're needing.</P><P></P><P>Are you having trouble creating this tool on your end? If so, could you provide a code sample showing what you have so far? I would think that you would want to create a tool within a python addin that implements the following logic:</P><P></P><OL><LI>Wire into the tool's onMouseDownMap event. This event will provide you with the xy location of where the user clicks.</LI><LI>Implement logic that iterates through the layers in the TOC that you'd need to review and either use the selection Geoprocessing tools or cursors with a spatial filter to determine which layers have data that intersect where the user clicked.</LI><LI>Use Geoprocessing to select the intersecting features and export them to a csv file via the&nbsp; TableToTable conversion tool or using python create the csv file and write the needed records to using cursors.</LI></OL><UL><LI></LI></UL></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 Sep 2015 22:27:28 GMT FreddieGibson 2015-09-01T22:27:28Z Pythonaddins tool for selecting polygon and export some specific attributes to csv https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/pythonaddins-tool-for-selecting-polygon-and-export/m-p/589565#M46214 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is there a pythonaddins tool or script with which I can click on a feature class polygon to be selected and export some specific attributes to a csv? My must have requirements are:</P><P></P><P>1. Pythonaddins, so that I can use the tool and click anywhere on polygon feature class.</P><P>2. There could be multiple feature classes, so I need to loop through all of them to get specific attributes to export.</P><P></P><P>[I think this would be very similar to identifier tool. The reason why we need to custom develop this, is to be able to export data to a csv file whenever a click event occurs.]</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:44:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/pythonaddins-tool-for-selecting-polygon-and-export/m-p/589565#M46214 YaminNoor 2015-06-15T16:44:07Z Re: Pythonaddins tool for selecting polygon and export some specific attributes to csv https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/pythonaddins-tool-for-selecting-polygon-and-export/m-p/589566#M46215 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Yamin,</P><P></P><P>I'm not sure if you still have this question. I haven't seen any users that have already created a tool similar to what you're needing.</P><P></P><P>Are you having trouble creating this tool on your end? If so, could you provide a code sample showing what you have so far? I would think that you would want to create a tool within a python addin that implements the following logic:</P><P></P><OL><LI>Wire into the tool's onMouseDownMap event. This event will provide you with the xy location of where the user clicks.</LI><LI>Implement logic that iterates through the layers in the TOC that you'd need to review and either use the selection Geoprocessing tools or cursors with a spatial filter to determine which layers have data that intersect where the user clicked.</LI><LI>Use Geoprocessing to select the intersecting features and export them to a csv file via the&nbsp; TableToTable conversion tool or using python create the csv file and write the needed records to using cursors.</LI></OL><UL><LI></LI></UL></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 Sep 2015 22:27:28 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/pythonaddins-tool-for-selecting-polygon-and-export/m-p/589566#M46215 FreddieGibson 2015-09-01T22:27:28Z