Unable to Generate PDF Reports with Python

[ColtonSnelling1]

I am trying to automate the report generation of a survey123 survey.

I have tried both in my orgs AGOL Notebooks as well as in a dedicated python IDE (PyCharm in this case, changing the GIS parameters accordingly).

The Notebook keeps saying it is generating a zip in a tmp location.  I cannot find that location, and I need it to output PDFs not in a zip file.

Here is my code:

import arcgis
from arcgis.gis import GIS
gis = GIS("home")

survey_manager = arcgis.apps.survey123.SurveyManager(gis)
survey_by_id = survey_manager.get("mySurveyID")

template = survey_by_id.report_templates[0]
pdf_report = survey_by_id.generate_report(template, output_format="pdf")
print("Single report as PDF: ", pdf_report)

[ClayDonaldsonSWCA]

You are missing a couple of parameters to help control the output.

• Review the SurveyManager.generate_report docs
  • You should specify a `where` parameter, otherwise it will return a zip file of all records
  • You should also use the `save_folder` parameter to specify where it should be saved

[ColtonSnelling1]

If I am always generating/downloading at least 2 reports at a time, is it always going to be a zip file?

[ClayDonaldsonSWCA]

yes if your query is set-up that way. Two solutions to that:

• Set up another function to query the data and get a list of object ids. Then use a `for` loop to generate a single report per objectid. (doesnt have to be object id, could be any unique value)
• Use python module zipfile to extract the pdfs