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It looks like you were actually not assigning any values to myval. You had the double equals sign which is used to test equality not assign values. Try your code like this: expression = "getKat(!KATEGORIE!)" codeblock = """def getKat(KATEGORIE):     if KATEGORIE == "0":         myval = "Autobahn"     elif KATEGORIE == "1":         myval = "Bundesstrasse"     else:         myval = "3"     return myval""" print "myval", myval arcpy.CalculateField_management(ERG, "RULE", expression, "PYTHON", codeblock) ... View more

I was able to reproduce this as well. I didn't see anything logged in our system for this issue so I have submitted the following bug: [NIM092338 When using arcpy.MultipleRingBuffer_analysis with the dissolve parameter set to "None", it will fail with error ERROR 000466: \Temp\scratch.gdb\buffer0 does not match the schema of target. Failed to execute (Append).] Thank you for reporting this issue! ... View more

Are you running this from a stand alone script run from PythonWin, or some other kind of IDE? Or do you run your script from the Python Window within ArcMap? We did have a bug for issues with exporting to PDF when running it in the Python Window: NIM084019 Clicking the interface while running arcpy.mapping.ExportToPDF from the Python window causes an interruption in the export process, resulting in an incomplete pdf. If you clicked in the interface there was a chance that the interaction could interupt the process. It was reproducible at version 10 as well as 10.1. You may want to try from a stand alone script instead. If you do run from a stand alone script, you can try adding a pause in between the refresh and the export to see if that helps. Try adding this: import arcpy, time df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd)[0] df.extent = extent arcpy.RefreshActiveView() time.sleep(30) arcpy.mapping.ExportToPDF(mxd,os.path.join(Report_Path,str(oid).upper())) This will pause the code for 30 seconds. You can read more on the time module on this link: http://docs.python.org/2/library/time.html ... View more

Usually the 000819 error means that ArcGIS is not recognizing the tool due to something like a name change or a path it can't find or even a environment where the tool does not exist. There are a couple things you will want to check for this. 1. Make sure some of the tools in your nested models don't use 10.1 only tools. 2. Check to make sure the paths to all the tools you used are in the same location. It's possible that script tools or models that you saved in the 10.1 toolbox are in a different spot. You may want to consider saving with relative paths instead, and its good to check the models for this if you were using it anyway. 3. Did you save your toolbox back to a 10.0 toolbox before opening it there? If not, go through this help document: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/#/Saving_toolboxes_to_earlier_versions/003q00000007000000/ These are good starting places for looking for errors. You might also want to try moving it to another 10.1 machine to see if it does the same thing. I hope this helps! ... View more

A warning should also be applied to tools that consume credits in ArcGIS Desktop such as Geocode Addresses when using the geocoding service from ArcGIS Online. ... View more

The behavior you describe is similar to what happened in this bug:  NIM079109 When using a combination of arcpy.CalculateField_management, Python parsers, and sys.argv[0] within a For loop, error 000732 is produced on the second iteration of the loop because sys.argv[0] is no longer called properly. This was rejected as designed saying to use os.getcwd() instead of sys.argv[0] as it is more reliable. I would try this method instead. ... View more

Hi Angel, You may want to try either the extract or datepart as part of your expression instead. Check out Article 40088 - HowTo:  Search for specific parts of a date stored in a Date-Time field It is possible that this is failing because you don't include time information. You can use the information outlined in the article to pick the parts of the date/time that you are looking to select on. Also, check out the date section of the SQL reference for query expressions used in ArcGIS to see if that also has the information that might help you get this right for processing. I hope this helps! ... View more

Hi Ramses, You should be able to do this. The only thing you have to do before hand is in ArcCatalog add tasks.arcgisonline to your services. You can do so with these steps: 1. Look in the Catalog Tree for GIS Services. 2. Expand that and select Add ArcGIS Server. 3. In the dialog, choose Use GIS services. Click Next. 4. For the Server URL, type: http://tasks.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/services 5. Press ok. You should now see arcgis on tasks.arcgisonline.com in that GIS servers list. 6. Expand the connection and expand the locators folder. Select and click on the locator you want to use. 7. Copy the full location path from the Location bar at the top of ArcCatalog. 8. Use that path in this code sample: # Import system modules import arcpy # Set local variables: address_table = r"C:\Data\Locations\geocodeONLINE\Addresses.dbf" address_locator = r"GIS Servers\arcgis on tasks.arcgisonline.com\Locators\TA_Address_NA_10.geocodeServer" geocode_result = r"C:\Data\Locations\geocodeONLINE\geocode_result.shp" arcpy.geocodeAddresses_geocoding(address_table, address_locator, "Address Address VISIBLE NONE;City CITY VISIBLE NONE;State State VISIBLE NONE;Zip Zip VISIBLE NONE", geocode_result, "STATIC") print "done!" Additional code help for this tool can be found at: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/#/Geocode_Addresses/002600000006000000/ ... View more

Hi Muki, You can embed scripts in ArcToolbox by: 1. Make a script tool that references your script. 2. Right-click the tool and click Import Script. 3. On the Import Script dialog box, click OK. http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//005700000017000000.htm ... View more

This snippet of code works. When you run the script in say PythonWin, are you inserting text into the arugment section of the "Run Script" dialog? I got this error only when I didn't give an arugment. The text in the argument would then be assigned to the variable title since you have the GetParameterAsText option setup here. This would then get propagated down to where you want to change the title's text, titleText.text = title. You can also hard code what you want the title variable to be until you are ready to make this into a script tool. ... View more

This has been logged to be reviewed as a bug. [#NIM076453  Near tool fails with Error 999999 when the input feature class used has a joined table.  ] It is new so it cannot be searched on our support site yet. But the workaround would be to do what you did with exporting the data or the join can just be removed before running the near tool and reapplied after. The main reason this is probably failing is because the Near tool is adding two new fields to the feature class. Because of the join, the table takes on altered field names that reference the table as well. It looks like the tool is not capable of recognizing that the join has modified the names in order for the new fields to be added properly. ... View more

You can use the layer Name property as it is read/write for that layer file. This provides the ability to set or get the name of a layer the way it would appear in the ArcMap table of contents. Spaces can be included. All layer types support this property. Check out the layer class page for more information about the name property and the others you can call on a layer. You will probably want to loop through your layers but then you can use something like this to see the layer name: for lyr in layers:     print lyr.name ... View more

There could be something wrong with the PythonWin install. Your code works fine when I use a sample geodatabase dataset version in PythonWin. Try running the same script in IDLE and see what you get. Maybe try working with a different output name and see if that makes a difference for doing the overwrite output. ... View more

Each script tool references a particular script that the tool is based on. If you made a copy and did not change the script tool's source when absolute paths are used then it would still reference the old script. You might also have some reference problems if using relative paths as the storage type and not placing the new script in the right location. You can always adjust the location the script tool references by right clicking on the script tool and selecting Properties. Click on the Source tab and change it to the correct script file path. Another thing you might want to consider is embedding the script file into the toolbox. You can then directly edit the script in the toolbox and whenever this toolbox is shared, the script will be shared with it. This will also allow you to password protect the original script so that you can manage who can make changes. See this help document for more information on setting this up: Embedding scripts and password protecting tools. ... View more