https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-toolbox-metadata-tool/m-p/1082801#M61862 <P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">TLDR: write metadata information in your python toolbox in markdown and generate XML from it.</P><P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM"><A href="https://github.com/namur007/PYT-Metadata" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">GitHub - PYT-Metadata</A></P><P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">Good day,</P><P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">Wanted to share a helpful tool I’ve created for python toolbox metadata. The goal is to store the entire structure of a project as self contained as possible, including the metadata.</P><P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">This led to me coming up with a tool to store and generate the metadata from a combination of arcpy Parameters and a custom dictionary, written as markdown strings in python.</P><P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">A nice side benefit is it lets you incorporate HTML elements not supported by default, such as code blocks.</P><P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">Hopefully someone else finds it as useful as I have!</P> Mon, 26 Jul 2021 19:50:29 GMT CodyScott 2021-07-26T19:50:29Z https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-toolbox-metadata-tool/m-p/1082801#M61862 <P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">TLDR: write metadata information in your python toolbox in markdown and generate XML from it.</P><P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM"><A href="https://github.com/namur007/PYT-Metadata" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">GitHub - PYT-Metadata</A></P><P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">Good day,</P><P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">Wanted to share a helpful tool I’ve created for python toolbox metadata. The goal is to store the entire structure of a project as self contained as possible, including the metadata.</P><P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">This led to me coming up with a tool to store and generate the metadata from a combination of arcpy Parameters and a custom dictionary, written as markdown strings in python.</P><P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">A nice side benefit is it lets you incorporate HTML elements not supported by default, such as code blocks.</P><P class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">Hopefully someone else finds it as useful as I have!</P> Mon, 26 Jul 2021 19:50:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-toolbox-metadata-tool/m-p/1082801#M61862 CodyScott 2021-07-26T19:50:29Z