topic Tile Package Properties in Python Questions

Tile Package Properties

MarcSwartz — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:13:14 GMT

Is the "Access and Use Constraints" property of a Tile Package (.tpk) scriptable with Arcpy? If yes, hint or better please.

In the Catalog window right click on a .tpk file. select Properties and the following window is shown.

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Re: Tile Package Properties

ShaunWalbridge — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:05:55 GMT

Marc,

I don't think there's a direct mechanism in ArcPy to edit that attribute, but it isn't too hard to do if you have some intermediate Python chops: the .tpk file is just a plain ZIP archive, and if you decompress the archive, you'll see a file, esriinfo/iteminfo.xml, which contains all of the settings, including that field, under the <licenseinfo> element. You could use the zipfile module in Python to extract the .tpk file, edit the XML file in Python using the included 'xml' module, and then save the full result set back to a new zip file. Not as easy as an additional parameter, but it'd do in a pinch.

cheers,
Shaun

Re: Tile Package Properties

MarcSwartz — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:01:26 GMT

Shaun,

Thanks for the information. I have verified that I can see all of the items you described. Now for the fun of learning.

Marc