Hi Xander ,
Absolutely no worries. I just appreciate your time and efforts in heartng this out.
In response to your answer, I may have take a few step backs as my problem probably begins at an earlier level - just get the geoprocessing tool to work.
We have water station locations which are a layer in a map service. We have script which produces a chart from matplotlib. Each produced chart will need to be linked somehow with each station (or each feature) in the water station layer. These images are created in matplotlib and saved as an .png image. Within the desktop environment, the script works great: it plots data which is retrieved from a stand alone table and stores the generated image in a separate folder. Now this is where I am probably missing something entirely...probably something basic:
After running this script and publishing it as a geoprocessing service, where do these pictures get saved? The pictures were saved in a separate folder on my local machine when the tool was ran in ArcMap Desktop, but how does this change when the tool is published? Once publishing, is a REST destination automatically created on the server to store the image outputs? I ask because when I run the published tool within ArcGIS Online App, the tool executes and then "fails". At the moment, these images aren't being generated or stored and on the server - this is the first step I have to solve.
After I am able to get this tool to make images on the server, then I can start dealing with the issue of accessing there location from the Web App. In other words, set an URL for the images in the Web App..I guess I would somehow have to retrieved the URL for each image. But again, I must get the tool working in the first place.
Sorry to back pedel a few steps, but thought I should point out that I am not even able to get the script or geoprocessing tool to work in the Web App yet. I guess that would be step one..
Thanks again for any insight.
Jeff