My script, you say? I thought you might ask for it.
This script was largely taken from this page: ESRI's featuresharingdraft documentation.
The goal is to overwrite an existing web layer that has lines of distance from facilities to wildfire origination points. I'm trying to automate this to run on a schedule and I can't.
I've narrowed down the problem to my XY line "layer" not showing up when I call the m.listLayers() method. I ran m.listLayers in the python window and confirmed that all of the other layers show up, but this one is strangely absent.
Going into Properties>Source, everything in my project appears to be a "File Geodatabase Feature Class" and based on my skimming of this article, ESRI defines these all as layers and so they should all be listed when I run m.listLayers.
I'm on a different computer than when I first posted this. When I go into the python window and assign aprx to be the "CURRENT" project, the XY layer does show up after running m.listLayers, but when setting aprx to the path of the project, a different XY layer is listed that is NOT in the contents pane (I searched).
It's a previous layer from an earlier run of the script that creates the line, and is stored in the project GDB. I'm not doing a walk or other method that would attempt to search the GDB so I'm very confused regarding the behavior exhibited.
import arcpy
import os
from datetime import datetime
from arcgis.gis import GIS
# Sign in to portal
arcpy.SignInToPortal("secret stuff deleted")
arcpy.env.workspace = r"C:\Users\gmarcus\ArcGIS\Projects\del_test2\del_test2.gdb"
homeGDB = r"C:\Users\gmarcus\ArcGIS\Projects\del_test2\del_test2.gdb"
now = datetime.now()
AMPM = ""
if now.hour - 12 > 0:
AMPM = "PM"
else:
AMPM = "AM"
prefix = AMPM + datetime.strftime(now,'%H_%d')
ag_xy = "F" + prefix + "_XY"
# Set output file names
outdir = r"C:\gisTEMP\Fire"
service_name = "Wildfire Map_WFL1"
sddraft_filename = service_name + ".sddraft"
sddraft_output_filename = os.path.join(outdir, sddraft_filename)
sd_filename = service_name + ".sd"
sd_output_filename = os.path.join(outdir, sd_filename)
# Reference map to publish
aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject(r"C:\Users\gmarcus\ArcGIS\Projects\del_test2\del_test2.aprx")
m = aprx.listMaps('Map')[0]
selected_layer = m.listLayers(ag_xy)
arcpy.AddMessage("Layer name: {lay} will be used".format(lay=selected_layer))
# Create FeatureSharingDraft and set overwrite property
server_type = "HOSTING_SERVER"
sddraft = m.getWebLayerSharingDraft(server_type, "FEATURE", service_name, selected_layer)
sddraft.overwriteExistingService = True
arcpy.AddMessage("Writing metadata...")
# Copied from the initial publish script
sddraft.credits = "Nobody"
sddraft.description = "Fire Distance"
sddraft.summary = "Fire distance from locations"
sddraft.tags = "wildfire"
sddraft.useLimitations = "This data is good"
sddraft.portalFolder = "Wildfire"
sddraft.allowExporting = True
arcpy.AddMessage("Creating SD Draft File....")
# Create Service Definition Draft file
sddraft.exportToSDDraft(sddraft_output_filename)
arcpy.AddMessage("Stage Service")
# Stage Service
print("Start Staging")
arcpy.StageService_server(sddraft_output_filename, sd_output_filename,102)
# Share to portal
print("Start Uploading")
arcpy.UploadServiceDefinition_server(sd_output_filename, server_type)
print("Finish Publishing")
