Mike
Thanks, and hope you're thriving. I've been working on this all day, and now have some things working. The processing is all straight Python/arcpy, and all the scripts used to work in 100.6 and still work in Pro 2.7.
Between 100.6 and 100.9 Local Server has become much more picky about parameter passing. Things which worked when, for example, a boolean was passed back as a string now no longer work, but screwing down the parameters types has got me past that for some of my gpkx.
The other areas which appear to have changed, and I'm still trying to find work-rounds are:
The handling of the Scratch area. This works in Pro, but local server sets up its own temporary scratch areas. I used to get at those using %scratchFolder% which seems not to work any more.
arcypy ListFeatureClasses() and ListTables() with no parameters seem to cause crashes (although the docn says they should work), and don't return what I'd expect when used to get, for example, feature_type='feature'. This may be down to the setting of arcpy.env.workspace not working as it used to, as that would definitely screw up those methods, but that's a problem for tomorrow.
Would you prefer to move this onto e-mail, then we can put up a roundup of what we find for posterity? You might even like to put something about Geoprocessing in Local Server in the documentation....(hint, hint)
Chris BB
