ModelBuilder web tool fails

[Anonymous User]

I'm starting to learn how to publish web tools from Pro to our portal and have made a simple ModelBuilder tool.

Tool works just like it should in Pro. However, after I publish it to our portal it always fails and I get the following error;

Not very descriptive and after searching for about half a day on Google it seems no one has the answer to this.

I'm running Pro 2.3.3 publishing to Portal for ArcGIS 10.6.1

[SMW_GIS]

I'm running into the same issue. Very simple model with one parameter.  The model simply runs the select by attribute tool and calculates a field. That process is repeated 5 times with different sql selections.  Did you ever get help with this?

[Anonymous User]

Nope, not a peep.

[Katherine_Clark]

Hi - I'm sorry you haven't heard anything here on Geonet, I know it can be hit or miss. I'm not super knowledgeable about this workflow but I can link to a few web pages that discuss this (you likely already ran into these, but can't hurt to share anyway) 

https://community.esri.com/thread/177000

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/170239/how-to-solve-error-000816-the-tool-is-not-valid-with-...

https://tutel.me/c/gis/questions/247989/esrijobmessagetypeerror+error+000816+the+tool+is+not+valid

More importantly, have you tried contacting Esri support about this? They can likely be of much more help if you aren't finding an answer on Geonet.

[ShingLin · Accepted solution]

This is a bug for the tool SelectLayerByLocation published as a web tool from ArcGIS Pro 2.3 to Enterprise 10.6.1. You have two workarounds:

1. For SelectLayerByLocation, don't use the tool directly, make a script tool with the following code (You have to include copyfeatures):

      import arcpy

      import os

      layer1= arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)

      layer2= arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)

      outfc= arcpy.GetParameterAsText(2)

      arcpy.management.SelectLayerByLocation(layer1, "INTERSECT", layer2, "", "NEW_SELECTION")

      arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(layer1, outfc)

2. Update ArcGIS Pro and Enterprise to 2.4 and 10.7 respectively, then run your model.