Latest Contributions by KevinHibma

My apologies, this has been logged as a defect; NIM058666 - saveACopy method fails when saving to the previous version. At this time I'm unaware of any work arounds to saving an older version ... View more

The help topic is here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Result/000v000000n7000000/ Sample code: import arcpy inTable = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) result = arcpy.GetCount_management(inTable) print result.getOutput(0) ... View more

For sure, "Get Count": http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//0017000000n7000000.htm If you need a selection/search on it, you can do a "make table view" then "select by attribute" Adding these couple steps might slow it down a little, however if you just want the number of rows in a table, featureclass, etc - Get Count should be the fastest. ... View more

Kevin so is that a wobbly "don't split" as I suggested? I am pushing in that direction...lean there Exactly, Dan. Jim just said it a little more eloquently by using the chicken and the egg reference. But trust that my vote doesn't count. I'll continue to check the forum(s) regardless of their direction. The only votes that count are the ones without esri staff beside them. That's why these are User Forums :). I'm just trying to contribute something productive to the discussion. ... View more

I know I already chimmed in with an opinion, but at that time I wasn't leaning one way or another. After putting more thought into it I'm placing my vote on leaving the forum as-is. Why? Because I think the forum should be easiest to use by those who use it the least. I realize that may seem like backward logic but the majority of people who have responded to this thread are the ones who answer questions day in and day out. I don't have numbers to back any assumptions up, but I'd wager that the majority of users on here are very casual users. I wouldn't want to see people frustrated on the simple point of where to place a question. (submitting your question to the right spot shouldnt be a hurdle, just getting the answer is the hurdle) I do sympathize with the "answer-ers" though. The ones who come here every day want to find the topics they care about the most and can answer quickly. You're all doing this because you want too, because you enjoy helping and of course you should be able to do that in an easy and efficient manner. Thats my 3cents. A lot of good discussion so far from the community, hope to see more... ... View more

Matt, I've looked into this and unfortunately this appears to be a bug. The issue is logged and for your tracking purposes you can follow: NIM060092 -KMLtoLayer crashes python when run as a standalone script. I looked at a variety of ways to work around the problem (such as building a script tool and calling that) - it appears there isn't a workaround. My apologies for this inconvenience, this should fixed in SP1 due sometime in the Fall. ... View more

Let me look into it and see what I can find. I'll let you know. ... View more

Matt, On the first run through I see it hitting that same error "noneType" as well. If you remove the arcpy.ImportToolbox from your script it should get you past this. You don't actually need to import the system toolboxes, your reference of arcpy.KMLToLayer_conversion is enough. Let me know if that helps or not. ... View more

Matt, You're using: arcpy.KMLToLayer_conversion(LocalFile, runCWD, "nws") This implies that LocalFile and runCWD are variables. Unless you have more to your script that I'm not seeing (you've assigned values to those variables), you'll want to run it something like the following with the inputs and quotations: arcpy.KMLToLayer_conversion(r'C:\_KMLs\eqs7day-age.kmz',r'C:\_KMLs\temp',"myEQdata") ...now if you have assigned values to the variables - everything looks correct in your code snippet. My question would be can you run any other tools via a Python script? Something like: arcpy.GetCount_management("aaa.shp") Or could you just post your whole script? ... View more

I'm not voting one way or another, mainly because I see the benefits of both methods. I just want to say that I see a good number of "workflow" posts...."how do I start this" or "how would I go about achieving goal X". Very quickly someone will offer a "do it in ModelBuilder" or "you need to script that". It would be hard for the original poster to put that question in the appropriate forum from the start. Or once they got an answer its now in a general forum instead of the scripting form. (And I don't say that with the thought of moving the original post...theres a lot of overhead on that). The tagging idea (while I don't know if the forum technology supports it) would be a cool idea. The tags could give everyone the best of all worlds. One area for your GP questions, but if it ends up being a Python specific question, add the tag and everyone who loves Python can quickly find that post. ... View more

I use this landing page for Blogs. It doesn't include all of them, but gives you the most recently updated ones at the top. http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/ ... View more

Does anyone have any examples of script tools used in an ArcGIS server geoprocessing service? I guess they have to be written differently to script tools in the desktop environment but can't find any documentation on them Aside from watching your input/output parameters (being supported and how you reference them)...the scripts aren't really any different. Do you have a workflow or script that you're having problems with? ... View more

Thanks, Ted. With the script I was able to repro. (actually brought Russell in on it) It was worth noting though - if you step through the script, or bring it in line by line to the Py Window, it works. This is logged as NIM059517 -arcpy.ListVersions creates an invalid list when run as a script or debug The best I could tell for some reason the ListVersions was creating weird output which would then cause the next command to choke. However it doesnt always do the weird list...only sometimes. Regardless, I've sent this to the right people and hopefully we can get it into SP1. Thanks for posting the original script. ... View more

Ted, You mentioned these are crash dumps... If so you can just use the submit (assuming you have internet connectivity on those machines). Trust that we do get them when submitted, and they are examined. Just as a note, not everyone has the ability to fully diagnose them, however through the submission processes they are handled by the appropriate people. Could you post the script you're loading? If so I can try to repro the issue with that. ... View more

Paul, In ArcGIS 10 we have a tool which extracts data, zips it and then emails it. If you have 10 and navigate to the Server Tools > Data Extraction > Send Email With Zip File Attachment, you can right click and "edit" to see how it works. If you dont have 10 I've attached the python script which drives the tool. Its very similar to what you have - though there are some minor differences. Hopefully between it and the script you have you can get your task working. Goodluck! ... View more