I have written a number of tools using arcpy as pure Python standalone scripts.
Now I want to make an interactive tool that I can use, for example, in a model pipeline.
I have the Python code which I can run as a standalone, and get the parameters from the python command line
e.g
python <script_name> <parameter1> ... <parameterN>
All the tools supplied by ESRI have a GUI to interact with the user and collect these run time parameters. How do I do that instead of using the command line?
Specifically I need to get the name of an input and output feature class, and also to collect a list of field name mappings (so there will be an a priori unknown number of these).
I am not sure whether I am posting this question to the proper group. Please tell me if not.