topic Re: Export tool parameters of custom toolbox in Python Questions

Export tool parameters of custom toolbox

JesseBellora1 — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:22:18 GMT

Does anybody know a py script that will export all the tool parameters of a custom built toolbox? It would be ideal to have it in the form of

Tool Name (And Toolset name?) - Parameter 1, Parameter 2, Parameter 3, etc.

I should also note that the toolbox contains toolsets and sub toolsets nested within and I'd like to just generate a list of all the tools and their parameters.

Thanks

Re: Export tool parameters of custom toolbox

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:46:08 GMT

probably not as clean as you want but you can export the toolbox and/or tool properties to an htm/html file for posterity

See the attached html... ps, I put absolutely no effort in documenting this

Re: Export tool parameters of custom toolbox

JesseBellora1 — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:53:15 GMT

Thanks Dan,

I was aware of that but the issue is that we have many tools nested within toolsets in the toolbox. When I export the toolbox properties to an html, it only exports the toolsets but I can not see the tools within them or the tools parameters.

I could right click>export properties for every tool but that would take just as long as looking at each tools parameters individually.

Thanks

Re: Export tool parameters of custom toolbox

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:57:50 GMT

Yes... I realize that, I haven't seen a python access point to what you want (maybe arcobjects... who knows) and I would weight development time against time spent actually doing it. If you had to do this day in day out, it would be nice. I don't mind doing it manually since I can create a folder structure to match the toolbox/toolset/tools hierarchy and put the html files in there. Good luck on the search