Latest Contributions by forestknutsen1

Thx Cory. I have been playing with it and it and it does in fact do everything I want. ... View more

Sweet. I have already sorted this one out by exporting the schema and then I made a quick xml parser with python. I think that this should be fine. Looks good in testing.... Thanks for the input it is much appreciated. ... View more

Thanks Curtis. I think that the schema method is what I want at this time. Thanks for the input that is very good to know for the future. ... View more

I am testing it now... to see if it can handle all of the datasets at once. If so there will be no need for automation... ... View more

Thanks Jeff. I had no idea about this. Here was looking for a workaround and there is a pre-made  thing right there in think right there in arc. lol. I feel a little foolish. oh well lose some win some. Thanks for the help ... View more

I am not sure I understand. You are saying that you have a field that has values like 1,2,2,3,4,4,5 etc. and you want 1,2,3,4,5,6 what is the value of this. Why not just use the OID if you need a UID (unique identifier). If this will not work-  what you want can be done with python using an UpdateCursor: here is info on it. ArcGIS Help 10.1 then just update the row with a count variable. and increment it each time though the loop. count += 1 i.e. count = count + 1 ... View more

Ok sounds like this is kinda a big topic. I am new in my job, never worked with an SDE before, can you tell? lol I think I will talk to my supervises before I do anything else. Thanks for the feed back. ... View more

So I think I have a solution worked out with python and a mdb. My plan is to copy the datasets and feature class to a mdb database (esri personal database) and then read the metadata directly with pyodbc. pyodbc - Python ODBC library - Google Project Hosting This should work fine I believe. I have posted the code for just the metadata export for mdb part. Sorry I do not know what happed to the syntax highting option it is gone on my browser. # import arcpy import pyodbc # set up some constants MDB = r"C:\python_working\test.mdb" DRV = '{Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}' PWD = 'pw' # connect to db con = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={};DBQ={};PWD={}'.format(DRV,MDB,PWD)) cur = con.cursor() # run a query and get the results SQL = 'SELECT Documentation FROM GDB_Items;' # your query goes here rows = cur.execute(SQL).fetchall() for row in rows:     temp = row[0]     if temp is not None:         file = open('C:/python_working/test.xml', 'w')         file.write(temp)         file.close()     print temp cur.close() con.close() ... View more