Latest Contributions by ThomasColson

So this is something new to me that is manifesting itself in Pro and that is Setting script tool parameters—Geoprocessing and Python | ArcGIS Desktop. In particular, "The tool modifies the schema of the input, ", which, an ESRI employee told me derives from "Your script tools need to use derived outputs to indicate to the multithreaded geoprocessing framework that something was updated within your script code". Since this stuff works in Arc, but I'm seeing the issue in Pro, I'm guessing that's where multithreaded comes into play.  So here's the problem. With the attached toolbox, run Create Folders -> Create GDB -> Add attributes (check both boxes). What happens is, the folders get created, the GDB get's created, the extended attributes get created, the extended domains get created, but the domains created with the last tool don't appear in right-click GDB -> Domains, not do the domains get assigned to the attributes (because the tool doesn't believe they exist). Close Pro. Go to Arc Cat, the extra two domains created by the 3rd tool (and the assignment to the attributes) are there and correct. Restart Pro. There they are.  I completely understand that some sort of tool parameter wizardry has to occur here for the 3rd tool to recognize the domains have been added, and let the tool know that so it can continue with the next steps which is assign the domains to the attributes.  The attached toolbox was edited by the helpful ESRI person in another forum, but I'm not having that "ahhhhh that makes sense" moment when trying to extend it, or, even make it work (for some reason it worked once, but post-many-reboots, the original behavior is occurring, the domains aren't showing up (even though they're really there).  ... View more

If you were limited to a Dell Precision 7920, require disk performance over capacity, require dual (but not quad) monitors, will never use Pro 3D, how would you spec it out? I'm agonizing over the difference between PCIe NVMe Class 50 Solid State Drive versus Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Duo PCIe SSD x8 Card, 1 M.2 1TB PCIe NVMe Class 50 Solid State Drive. On to CPU's, my current 6 year old workstation with it's dual Xeon E5606 2.13 GHZ blows my laptop with it's i7 out of the water in terms of Pro performance. So more cores, I assume, is better. So do I go with a single Xeon with as many cores as I can afford, or dual Xeons with "as many as I can afford" split between them? For video, I'd really like Dual NVIDIA® Quadro® P4000, 8GB, 4 DP (7X20T) but likely will only get approved for Dual Radeon™ Pro WX 5100, 8GB, 4 DP (7X20T) as it's 1/3 the cost. And is 3TB (24x128GB) 2666MHz DDR4 LRDIMM ECC too much? Not enough for Pro (Kidding!).  ... View more

Created a FGDB and Poly FC in Pro 2.1.3, created some poly's using clip of another feature layer. Output has 6 features, I want to merge the 6 down into 2. Select two of the features, Edit -> Modify -> Merge: The Destination layer type cannot be merged. Wut?!?! Further investigation reveals that "This feature layer is already locked by another running application" which is not true, as I just created it; it's on my local hard drive so no rogue user decided to start editing it; I only have one instance of Pro going, and one Catalog view going, and no running GP tasks. Closed Pro, finished the project in Arc, where merge from the edit toolbar worked flawlessly.  ... View more

I'm attempting to use py to check if a domain exists, if not, create it, else do nothing. After consulting How do I check if a domain already exists? , arcgis 10.0 - Using arcpy.Exists for domains? - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange , and esri geodatabase - Checking if domain already exists using ArcPy? - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange I came up with the attached code. If neither domain exists, it fails with: Start Time: Sunday, June 10, 2018 2:28:13 PM Running script Add Extended Core Fields... Failed script Add Extended Core Fields... Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Temp\PRO_FOLDER_STRUCTURE\EXTENDED_CORE_FIELDS.py", line 24, in <module> arcpy.CreateDomain_management(gdb_name, "DOM_YES_NO_UNK_NPS2016", "Is the feature physically observable", "TEXT", "CODED") File "c:\program files\arcgis\pro\Resources\arcpy\arcpy\management.py", line 1332, in CreateDomain raise e File "c:\program files\arcgis\pro\Resources\arcpy\arcpy\management.py", line 1329, in CreateDomain retval = convertArcObjectToPythonObject(gp.CreateDomain_management(*gp_fixargs((in_workspace, domain_name, domain_description, field_type, domain_type, split_policy, merge_policy), True))) File "c:\program files\arcgis\pro\Resources\arcpy\arcpy\geoprocessing\_base.py", line 496, in <lambda> return lambda *args: val(*gp_fixargs(args, True)) arcgisscripting.ExecuteError: Failed to execute. Parameters are not valid. ERROR 000192: Invalid value for Domain Name Failed to execute (CreateDomain). Failed to execute (AddExtendedCoreFields). Failed at Sunday, June 10, 2018 2:28:14 PM (Elapsed Time: 1.52 seconds)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ However it creates the domain! If I run it again knowing the domain exists, same error message.  import os import errno import arcpy #Get user input gdb_name = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) fc_name = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1) isOBSERVABLEchecked = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(2) isISEXTANTchecked = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(3) #Create the Optional OBSERVABLE domain if str(isOBSERVABLEchecked) == 'true':         existingDomains = arcpy.da.ListDomains(gdb_name)         isthere = False         for domain in existingDomains:                 if domain.name == 'DOM_YES_NO_UNK_NPS2016':                         isthere = True                         break                 if isthere == False:                         arcpy.CreateDomain_management(gdb_name, "DOM_YES_NO_UNK_NPS2016", "Is the feature physically observable", "TEXT", "CODED")                         YESNODict = {"Unknown":"Unknown", "Yes": "Yes", "No": "No"}                         for code in YESNODict:                                        arcpy.AddCodedValueToDomain_management(gdb_name, "DOM_YES_NO_UNK_NPS2016", code, YESNODict[code])                 else:                         arcpy.AddMessage("DOM_YES_NO_UNK_NPS2016 already exists")                         #Create the Optional ISEXTANT domain if str(isISEXTANTchecked) == 'true':         existingDomains = arcpy.da.ListDomains(gdb_name)         isthere = False         for domain in existingDomains:                 if domain.name == 'DOM_YES_NO_UNK_NPS2016':                         isthere = True                         break                 if isthere == False:                                 arcpy.CreateDomain_management(gdb_name, "DOM_ISEXTANT_NPS2016", "Indicates feature or features that are no longer in existence or partially in existence.", "TEXT", "CODED")                                 ISEXTANTDict = {"Unknown":"Unknown", "True": "True", "False": "False", "Partial": "Partial", "Other": "Other"}                                 for code in ISEXTANTDict:                                                arcpy.AddCodedValueToDomain_management(gdb_name, "DOM_ISEXTANT_NPS2016", code, ISEXTANTDict[code])                 else:                         arcpy.AddMessage("DOM_ISEXTANT_NPS2016 already exists")‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ As best as I can tell, I have an illegal loop condition that keeps trying to create the first domain whether it exists or not, and the failure stems from the domain name already exists.  ... View more