Latest Contributions by ChrisHolmes

Hi Rebecca, When you have a moment could you elaborate a bit on your comment, "there are better ways to do it..no need to open each one physically". Thanks, Chris ... View more

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Lots to learn! Have a good day. ... View more

I have a modelbuilder model which copies a number of mxd files to a new folder based on a index number that the user enters. The index is used for the name of the new folder and is also appended to the front of each mxd file. Once the files are copied I want to open one of them which is what the os.startfile accomplishes. I just think it would be nicer if it opens in the instance that is already open. If there is a better way to do this, please let me know. Thanks! ... View more

Yes, you’re correct Rebecca. Thanks! ... View more

Thanks Curtis! I first tried arcpy.Copy_management() and was able to get it working but my efforts to get it to use the parameter so the destination could change based on the user input failed. So then I tried shutil.copytree() and it looks like it works: shutil.copytree("x:/GIS/LUAM/DEV/TEMPLATE/data_for_item.gdb","c:/chris/{0}/data_for_item.gdb".format(string)) Have a good weekend. ... View more

So I have the above code working to copy multiple files, but it doesn't work to copy a file geodatabase. Any suggestions for how to do this? Thanks very much for all the help, Chris ... View more

Thanks again for the help Curtis, this is super. Also thanks for the link! ... View more

Thanks Curtis, following your advice I was able to get the copy file working using: If I wanted to modify the code block to first create a folder with the same name as what is appended to the copied CitizenComments.mxd file what would need to be changed? So for example the new file path would be C:\chris\105\105CitizenComments.mxd I had tried the following based on the previous copy file code, but obviously I'm missing some stuff: import os import shutil def CopyFile(string):    os.mkdir("c:/chris/{}.format(string))    shutil.copy("c:/chris/Test1/CitizenComments.mxd",                      "c:/chris/{}/{}CitizenComments.mxd".format(string))    return "c:/chris/{}/{}CitizenComments.mxd".format(string) ... View more

Thanks Curtis, I'll check this out. Chris ... View more

Thanks Darren. I'll play around with your suggestions. Have a good weekend. Chris ... View more

Oh ya, as you can tell: new to python ... View more

That's great Andrew. Thank you very much! ... View more