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Embedding Toolboxes in ArcGIS Pro

Question asked by bralph_1 on Aug 16, 2019
Latest reply on Aug 22, 2019 by bralph_1
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UPDATE: Moved question to ArcGIS Pro SDK and mentioning Uma Harano as the author of the embedded toolbox article.

 

I'm following the instructions to embed a toolbox in arcgis pro here, but am getting mixed results. In Visual Studio I've created the esriAddinX with the .tbx, and after starting Pro I can see it has correctly extracted the toolbox into %LocalAppData%\ESRI\ArcGISPro\Toolboxes\GUID\. So far so good.

 

I'm expecting to see my addin's toolbox listed in Pro's system Geoprocessing toolboxes as per instruction 13 in the guide, but I don't.  What am I missing? I've verified that the extracted toolbox is good, and I've populated everything in the .tbx like alias, name, description, etc.

 

I haven't tried a python toolbox because I want to have toolsets, but if someone knows the .pyt works, then please let me know and I'll go with that. Any ideas/samples will be greatly appreciated. I'm using ArcGIS Pro 2.4.1.

 

This screenshot is attempting to show the esriAddinX contents being correctly extracted. 

esriAddinX with embedded toolbox

gprince-esristaff
gprince-esristaff Employee Aug 20, 2019 1:11 PM
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Hi ben,

 i think your add-in may not be following the expected folder structure.  Review step3 in the embedding toolboxes add-in doc. Your toolbox should go under Toolboxes/toolboxes along with (optional) other folders.

 

Below is the directory structure for the add-in i created.

cheers

 

\---Toolboxes

    +---arcpy
    |       DeepThought.py
    |
    +---help
    |   \---gp
    |       |   Answer_deepthought.xml
    |       |   deepthought_toolbox.xml
    |       |
    |       +---messages
    |       |       messages.xml
    |       |
    |       \---toolboxes
    |               DeepThought.xml
    |
    \---toolboxes
            answer.py
            DeepThought.tbx
            sixbynine.py
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