Latest Contributions by MichaelVolz

I would create a bat file such as this that would call the python script(s) that you created.  I have additional documentation that is sent to the log file to help indentify when each script is being run.  Just give it a file name such as Update.bat @echo off echo Start time: %time% > update_data.log echo ------------  Start time: %time% echo ------------  Refreshing Database  ----------------------- echo ------------  Refreshing Database  ----------------------- >> update_data.log 01_Data.py >> update_data.log echo End time: %time% echo  ' ' >> update_data.log echo End time: %time% >> update_data.log @echo on I hope this helps. ... View more

Does anyone from ESRI know if this is a version difference problem? Any help or hints are greatly appreciated.  Thanks. ... View more

Robert: I have a question in regards to this application.  The code is written against the Flex API where the application is stored on an IIS Server, the GIS mapservices orginate from a different IIS Server that has ArcGIS Server with a crossdomain.xml in place for all mapservices, and the images are stored on another IIS Server.  Would the IIS server where the images are stored need to have its own crossdomain.xml file so the application Flex API can access these images?  Your feedback is greatly appreciated. ... View more

Question about the importance of this script: Is this your companies (organization's) policy to convert shapefiles to file geodatabases? Or is ESRI dictating this move because shapefiles are going to be deprecated in the near future? ... View more

Luca: I just looked at the script that I use to reproject feature classes and I pass a string representation of the out_coor_system, as opposed to the .prj file that you are using. Maybe you can get the string representation of the out_coor_system instead of the .prj file and see if that works.  My out_coor_system is different from yours so it would not help you. If you say using the .prj file in an out-of-the-box tool worked, but the python script did not work then you might want to log an incident with ESRI Technical support as I would think both instances are running the same behind the scenes code. Also in my script, I need to add the appropriate toolboxes in order for the python script to run as below: # Load required toolboxes... arcpy.AddToolbox("C:/Program Files (x86)/ArcGIS/Desktop10.0/ArcToolbox/Toolboxes/Data Management Tools.tbx") Your path to the toolbox might be slightly different depending upon your operating system. I hope this info helps. ... View more

Luca: I would first check to see if the prj file is correct.  Take one of the feature classes in your file geodatabase and set it to the indicated projection within ArcMap or ArcCatalog.  If this fails, it might indicate an issue with your prj file. Also, are these feature classes already in a projection.  If so, maybe you do not need to use the arcpy.SpatialReference method, but go directly to arcpy.Project_management.  I have a python script where I reproject multiple feature classes in a loop which already have a projection and I just use the arcpy.Project_management method to accomplish this task. ... View more

Luca: I believe the ESRI documentation for FeatureClassToGeodatabase_conversion answers this question http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//001200000021000000 �?�The name of the output feature classes will be based on the name of the input feature class name. For example, if the input is C:\base\streams.shp, the output feature class will be named streams. �?�If the name already exists in the output geodatabase, a number will be appended to the end to make it unique, for example, "_1". Using FeatureClassToGeodatabase_conversion works properly because when it hits an input feature class with the same name it appends a _1 to the name of the second instance and so on _2 for the third instance instead of throwing an error. ... View more

Luca: You get the error because you had already copied a feature class with that name from a file geodatabase in the directory that you were looping through.  If you only want to process shapefiles into the new file geodatabase, then you need to filter out data based on its source (only process shapefiles).  I hope this  helps. ... View more

Try putting in outWorkspace + "\\" + fc.strip(".shp").  You might have issues with "\ as an escape character so you might want to change your code to use / instead of \ as this is the full path to the output feature class including its name. I would also strongly advise getting some ESRI training on python scripting if your manager allows this.  You would speed up your python scripting learning curve tremendously. ... View more

Luca: In the ESRI documentation for CopyFeatures_management, the first required parameter is the input feature which looks correct.  The second required parameter is the output feature class.  It looks like you are providing a workspace instead of the name of the output feature class. ... View more

Luca: In the line arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(fc, outWorkspace) can you change fc to outFeatureClass Also can you move the statement print os.path.join(workspace, fc, "TO GDB") above the statement arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(fc, outWorkspace) as this is where the error is occurring. ... View more

Luca: Can you provide the feedback you get for both scenarios from the print statements? Also, for the code where you get ERROR 000601, can you make sure you do not have the file geodatabase that you are trying to delete open in ArcMap or ArcCatalog on your computer as that might be putting a lock on the file geodatabase.  You also might want to close out of the application that you are running python through as well (e.g. IDLE or pythonwin) as that might also have a lock on the file geodatabase if you had an error in the middle of running the script. ... View more