Latest Contributions by WilliamBuerger

I was trying to report on any coded domains where the values in the domain were not sorted in order.  When you add a new domain code, it gets added to the end of the list and I want to know where these situations exist in our database.  But in the Pro SDK, the CodedValueDomain class only has the GetCodedValuePairs method to get access to these values and this returns a sorted list meaning they are not in the order they actually exist in the database.  I can just run a sort on all domain and that will probably be correct.  But I'd be concerned if there might be some domain that might have a specific non-sorted order that we don't want to change.  I'll probably do this in python but my primary development environment is C# and I have lots of code and helpers to work with so prefer to do these things here instead.  Would be helpful if the SDK could actually provide the needed information. ... View more

I've been trying to do some schema updates on existing feature classes such as changing a subtype description.  I'm using the SchemaBuilder to make the update.  As a first test, I was following the example from the SchemaBuilder.Modify(TableDescription) documentation and it kept failing with the message... Error: The domain field type does not match that of the field it is being assigned to. As seems to be usual for these kinds of things, there's no mention what field has the error.  There are 381 fields in this table so that's a lot of fields to check for what the problem might be.  It would be extremely helpful if the error message indicated what field has the issue.  I had to delete fields until I didn't get the error and then work down to the specific field.  Turns out the issue is that the field type is long but the domain type is short.  I understand they don't match but a long can hold any value a short can so it seems to be a non-issue.  But more importantly, I can do any of these schema edits manually and Pro doesn't complain and allows the schema changes to occur.  It seems that the SchemaBuilder is more picky about what is allowed than Pro is itself. ... View more

I used the new toolbox (atbx) recently when creating a simple toolbox that links to a separate py file like I used to do with the old (tbx) format.  I only recently realized that atbx is a zipped file with a number of py, json and other files.  It also seems like it might work better the Python Toolbox (pyt) for managing my python tools.  But, I can't find any actual documentation about how to use and format an atbx file to do more advanced coding.  Specifically, I was introduced to the UtilityDataManagementSupport toolbox that has some useful tools.  If you "edit" any of the tools, there's just a stub function that calls the internal tool that does the work.  There are a number of internal py files that have the actual logic for executing the tools.  But the only option I see to work with atbx files in Pro is to add a script and edit the logic for that tool directly.  How do you add additional classes or common code that all scripts might share in the atbx?  Is it just a manual thing of unzipping the atbx file, adding your files and then recompressing?  Seems a bit awkward to manage and test this way.  I'm mostly surprised that there is apparently no documentation about what atbx is and how to work with it. ... View more

I'm building a process to iterate through all datasets in a Utility Network enterprise geodatabase so I'm using ListDataset, ListFeatureClasses and ListTables to get all the items I want to process.  The one thing I'm noticing on ListTables is that it's giving me all of the UN_? tables such as UN_7_Topology, etc... which are hidden from normal views and I don't want to touch.  Is there a way to check if a table is normally "hidden" or is something used internally that I don't want to touch?  I could hard-code a check for anything that starts with "UN_" but there's nothing I'm aware of from preventing a normal table having a similar name that I would want to process. ... View more

I'm running some long running processing to update all subnetworks.  I had it up in the background and noticed it was failing stating... ERROR 002119: Must be connected and signed into the portal. This was after running for a few hours out of the expected 24hr+.  I had to cancel, log onto portal again and then restart the process.  I've seen this before.  It seems that every so often, you randomly get kicked out of your portal connection.  Is there a reason for this?  Is there  a timeout or settting for how long you are allowed to be logged in?  If so, it would be helpful if it could warn you and let you extend or re-login before getting disconnected. This is running on a test/staging system where I have Server/Portal/Datastore and Pro all running on the same system.  In case that has any impact on anything. ... View more