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How to use python to update user profile description with multiple lines

ThomasColson1 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:27:05 GMT

How to use python to update user profile description with multiple lines? Using arcgis.gis module | ArcGIS API for Python

I've tried:

for u in range(len(users)):
users[u].update(description='First line' chr(10)'Second line')

for u in range(len(users)):
users[u].update(description='First line' + chr(10)+ 'Second line')

for u in range(len(users)):
users[u].update(description='First line \n Second line')

and every single possible variation of python new line and all I get is

What I need is:

Declaring a string doesn't work either. No matter what, it puts all the text on a single line in the profile.

Re: How to use python to update user profile description with multiple lines

DavidPike — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:04:29 GMT

Possibly might accept some html like <br> but unlikely. I'd enter it manually then read the description value returned from the Python API if you haven't tried that already.

Re: How to use python to update user profile description with multiple lines

JakeSkinner — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:01:54 GMT

Hi @ThomasColson1, I used Fiddler to see what was being sent when updating a profile's description. I found  was used for a carriage return. According to this link, this is the HTML Number.

user.update(description='this is an example')

returns the following: