Import ArcToolbox Log History

[BadWolf]

Dear all,

I do not know what  happened but I have lost all my ArcToolbox log history that was available trough "Results" menu.

The strange thing is that I can access the log files that are saved on my harddrive. Those files are on .xml format but I do not know how to import them back to the "Results" history menu.

Can someone give me a help on this? To me is extremely useful to see the results history! It helps me a lot!

Thank you

[DanPatterson_Retired]

A big frown if this is where you are looking.  Kudos for having them on disk!

[BadWolf]

Hi there Dan!

I know where to look for the history results! The problem is that list was lost, and I do not know why! But I have found the files of my history on my HardDrive! Have a look at this print:

As you can see, I have very few record on the "Results" menu available through ArcGis, but on my computer I have all the records since the beginning! I really want to add them to the "Results" menu, because its so easy to see them rather than have to open file by file and search for what I want!

Thank you

[DanPatterson_Retired]

I have hit the delete all by mistake before .  If I get something to work, I have gotten into the habit of saving to python snippets.

There is some tips for those not familiar with what is being talked about here

Viewing tool execution history—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

and here you can see the various options from the results window

Using the Results window—Help | ArcGIS for Desktopl

At least you have logging history on, so not all is lost

[BadWolf]

Thank you for the links!

But do you know if there is any option to load the .xml files of the History folder to the "results" menu on Arcgis?

[DanPatterson_Retired]

sorry...that was what my first image was attempting to show...unless someone else knows a workaround

[curtvprice]

As far as I know there is no way to load these things, or even a nice stylesheet to view them.

[BadWolf]

Really? Oh that are some bad news for me

[RebeccaStrauch__GISP]

I don't know if it is possible to reload, but a word of caution on keeping all the "results"....

The more results you keep in a ArcMap (or Catalog) , the slower the the document (or Catalog) will take to open and close. All that information get written/read with the document.  So it is best practice to thin it out "results" once and a while.

I agree with Dan, if/when you find something that is working and useful, if you right click on the commands in the results window, you can copy the python snippets and save it to a document or python file.  It's not quite as fast as double-clicking the result to rerun, but at least it is protected from mxd issues or auto-clear.

[BadWolf]

I honestly did not know that we could save the python snippets to a .txt file.

You have told me that it is possible to put that information on a python file. How can we create a python file?

I'm really not into coding, so I do not know how to do that!

Thanks for all the answers!