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Can we start a Python script from a widget.

MuralidharMoka — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:31:39 GMT

Hi,

Can we start a Python script from a widget on a button Click.

Say I will have a button and Textbox for location of the file.

I saw an earlier post on this in the community, but there was not satisfactory answer.

Note: our python script is reading attributes data and writing excel files

Thanks

Muralidhar Moka.

Re: Can we start a Python script from a widget.

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:47:20 GMT

No python is a server script that has file system access and can not run on a client web application locally. The only way you can get Python code to run in a widget is to publish a Geoprocessor service that calls the Python script to your server and then access that GP service from your widget or the WAB GP widget.