Latest Contributions by BillDaigle

Peter, Can you elaborate on how this helps you schedule scripts? Adam Messer ... View more

Here are some things that work well for us: Use subversion control.  We have 7 gis programmer/analysts and this is the allows us to track changes over time and make updates locally without affecting others.  We use our own internal subversion, but github would work as well. Within our subversion repository, we maintain 5 types of python code: general functions and classes that can be used by other script and toolboxes.  We add the path to this folder to our 'path' environmental variable so we can import modules from it without jumping through too many hoops Scripts.  These are just stand alone python scripts that might be for one time use or a work in progress Python toolboxes: We build most of our data manager and user tools into 'pyt' files so they can be run using the ArcGIS interface. Geoprocessing services:  we store the source code for publish geoprocessing services here Automated tasks: scripts that are scheduled to run on a nightly or weekly basis Code development generally occurs in standalone scripts or toolboxes.  When we see an opportunity to capitalize on a function or a tool we've developed, we move it into one of the classes in the general functions folder. Been working great for us! ... View more

It's a good thought.  I'm trying my best to stick with geodatabase functionality so that I run into problems down the road if we decide to use versioning or replication.  Looks like I'm stuck with creating relationship classes by hand for now. ... View more

I thought about that too. But I’m trying to set up a cross-platform (ArcMap and Web) editing work flow. I don’t want the users to maintain the key fields. ... View more

Seriously, there is still no fix for this??? ... View more

Yeah...the public .  Internally, we have some users that have the problem and others that don't.  I suspect the same is true for the public.  ... View more

Lydia Bailey​ ... View more

Thanks Rebecca. That helps for users that call, but not when they get to a blank page and give up. It still seems like this needs to be fixed on ESRI’s end. ... View more

I use a script to publish as well.  What I shared was just a piece from the end of my script.  We have been publishing this way for a couple of years.  Works great.  It takes a while to set up, but is well worth it in the end.  Our GIS analysts use python toolboxes we developed to publish/update services on our test server.  After some initial testing, the GIS manager uses other tools in the same toolset to migrate the changes to production. Everything is validated and logged, which make tracking down bugs pretty easy.  ... View more

If you're using the time slider, then the date must be a field in the service layer.  You could add a definition query to the service layer and include or exclude it by comparing it to the current date. ... View more

Here is a code sample demonstrating how to update service parameters after the service has been published. #modify these to match your environment serverHost = 'yourgisServer.com' serverPort = 6080 serviceRelativePath = r'/services/serviceFolder/serviceName.MapServer' username = 'yourAdminName' password = 'yourAdminPW' # properites you would like to apply to the service newProperties = { "minInstancesPerNode": 1, "maxInstancesPerNode": 5, "properties": {   "enableDynamicLayers": "true",   "dynamicDataWorkspaces": "[{\"id\":\"wsName\",\"workspaceFactory\":\"SDE\",\"lockVersion\":\"false\",\"workspaceConnection\":\"connectionProps\"}]" } } import json import urllib import httplib # #################### # helper functions # #################### def getUpdatedDict(inDict,modDict):     def _getPathsAndValuesFromModDict(d,parentDict):         for k, v in d.iteritems():             if isinstance(v, dict):                 _getPathsAndValuesFromModDict(v,parentDict )             else:                 parentDict = v     _getPathsAndValuesFromModDict(modDict,inDict)     return inDict def adminApiCall(strAdminApiUrl,objParams):     def _getToken():         tokenURL = "/arcgis/admin/generateToken"         params = urllib.urlencode({'username': username, 'password': password, 'client': 'requestip', 'f': 'json'})         headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"}         httpConn = httplib.HTTPConnection(serverHost, serverPort)         httpConn.request("POST", tokenURL, params, headers)         response = httpConn.getresponse()         if (response.status != 200):             httpConn.close()             return         else:             data = response.read()             httpConn.close()             # Check that data returned is not an error object             if not _assertJsonSuccess(data):                 return             # Extract the toke from it             token = json.loads(data)             return token['token']     def _assertJsonSuccess(data):         obj = json.loads(data)         if 'status' in obj and obj['status'] == "error":             #print "Error: JSON object returns an error. " + str(obj)             return False         else:             return True     token = _getToken()     if objParams:         objParams['token'] = token         objParams['f'] = 'json'     else:         objParams = {'token': token,'f': 'json'}     params = urllib.urlencode(objParams)     headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"}     # Connect to URL and post parameters     httpConn = httplib.HTTPConnection(serverHost, serverPort)     httpConn.request("POST", r'/arcgis/admin'+ strAdminApiUrl, params, headers)     # Read response     response = httpConn.getresponse()     if (response.status != 200):         print response.status         httpConn.close()         output = "Error: Code "+str(response.status)+', '+str(response.reason)     else:         data = response.read()         # Check that data returned is not an error object         if not _assertJsonSuccess(data):             obj = json.loads(data)             output =  obj['messages']         else:             dataObj = json.loads(data)             output =  dataObj     httpConn.close()     try:         if output[0] == u'Authorization failed. This user account does not have the required privileges to access this application.':             return {'status':'error','msg':u'Authorization failed for user'}     except:         return output # #################### # end helper functions # #################### #fetch the parameters using the admin api serviceInfo = adminApiCall(serviceRelativePath,{'f':'json'}) #update new parameters using the new properties serviceInfo = getUpdatedDict(serviceInfo,newProperties) #apply the updated params adminApiCall('/services/test/testForDave.MapServer/edit',{'f':'json','service':json.dumps(serviceInfo)}) Modifying properties after the service is published is, in my opinion, easier than doing so via the sd or sddraft. ... View more

.mxd --> .sddraft --> .sd --> Service We're at 10.1 SP1, and the work flow is the same. .mxd --> .sddraft --> .sd --> Service. Regardless, what I'm suggest occurs after the service is published.  I will see if I can scrape together a sample script. ... View more

BTW, our server is still at 10.1, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't apply to 10.3. ... View more