Evaluate validation rules on a version programmatically

SeanPerkins — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:10:48 GMT

Hi all. I've been trying to create a script to fire the validation rules on a given FeatureServer specifically on a non-default version.

Right now my process looks something like this.

gis = my_gis_object connection= "https://myserver.com/webadaptor/path_to_service/VersionManagementServer" # get version manager version_manager = VersionManager(connection,gis) # define version parameters version_name = "daily_validation_version" version_owner = "administrator_account" # create version version = version_manager.create(name=version_name, permission="PRIVATE") # get Validation Server for the version validation = version.validation # evaluate validation rules eval = validation.evaluate(evaluation=['validationRules'], changes_in_version=True, return_edits=True)

When I try to run this script I get Error:160902 I'm at a loss as to where I go from here.

In the debugger I see that the version, and the validation server are being properly created and accessed, so I know that the issue arises when I try to call the validation.evaluate method, which leads me to believe it's an argument issue

I know that arcpy.management.EvaluateRules exists, but that specifies that it runs against the default version.

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