We are getting ready to upgrade our enterprise database to 10.3 which no longer supports application connections.
So I have written a script that will walk through all mxd files in a directory and replace all the application connections with direct connects.
The problem I've encountered...
When a mxd document has connections that do not save the username and password a dialog box pops up and the script pauses until the dialog box is manually closed.
According to Example 4 in ESRIs documentation MapDocument—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop
We simply need to create a connection using the Create ArcSDE Connection File—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop tool before calling the MapDocument function.
Since my main goal is to use direct connects instead of application connections I am using Create Database Connection—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop instead and it is not suppressing the dialog box.
And in the ListBrokenDataSources—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop documentation it clearly states "The arcpy.mapping scripting environment will, by default, supress these dialogs during execution".
This does not seem to be the case and is a major issue when we have hundreds maybe even thousands of mxd files to update.
Esri Technical Support Please advice on how to suppress the dialog in the arcpy.mapping scripting environment.
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