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Convert ArcGIS Online Epoch Time to DD/MM/YYYY or other format using the ArcGIS API for Python

Convert ArcGIS Online Epoch Time to DD/MM/YYYY or other format using the ArcGIS API for Python

Table of Contents The Video Introduction Learn how to convert ArcGIS Online epoch timestamps into readable date formats (DD/MM/YYYY) using the ArcGIS API for Python and Python’s built-in datetime module. Below is a step-by-step guide how to access item properties from ArcGIS Online, extract epoch values, and format them into clean, human-readable dates. Perfect for […]

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List Excel File Sheet Names as an Input Parameter for Custom tools in ArcGIS Pro with ArcPy & Pandas

List Excel File Sheet Names as an Input Parameter for Custom tools in ArcGIS Pro with ArcPy & Pandas

Table of Contents The Video Introduction The Excel to Table Geoprocessing tool takes an Excel file as a parameter and then exposes the sheet names for the that file as a selection list in another parameter. In this blog post we will see how to use pandas and ArcPy in the custom tool Validator to

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How to check if an ArcGIS Online Feature Service is a View Layer with the ArcGIS API for Python

How to check if an ArcGIS Online Feature Service is a View Layer with the ArcGIS API for Python

Table of Contents The Video Introduction I was recently doing an ArcGIS Online audit for an organisation and needed to know whether a Feature Service was a View Service or the main Hosted Feature Service. When performing a search() with the ContentManager using the ArcGIS API for Python all Feature Services were returned with no

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Count Features in a Feature Class or Table in ArcGIS Pro using ArcPy

Count Features in a Feature Class or Table in ArcGIS Pro using ArcPy

Table of Contents The Video Introduction Looking to get the number of features/records in a feature class or table in ArcGIS Pro using ArcPy?  User Input Just the one. The path to the feature class or table. ## the path to the feature class to get the feature count fc_path = r”C:pathtofc_or_table” The GetCount Geoprocessing

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Get your ArcGIS Online Feature Layer OID Field Name with the ArcGIS API for Python

Get your ArcGIS Online Feature Layer OID Field Name with the ArcGIS API for Python

Table of Contents The Video Introduction The OID field for your feature layer in ArcGIS Online might be called OBJECTID, it could also be OID, FID, or any other name that you have given it. This can make it difficult to create a script to process data that may not have a standard OID field

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Download an Available Survey123 Form from ArcGIS Online and Replicate in Survey123 Connect with the ArcGIS API for Python

Download an Available Survey123 Form from ArcGIS Online using the ArcGIS API for Python and Replicate in Survey123 Connect

Table of Contents The Video Introduction Quite a simple but powerful workflow. Here, we are going to access an available Form item in ArcGIS Online that is publicly available and download the Survey123 package where we can then open up the Excel file to see how the same Form can be generated using Survey123 Connect.

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ArcGIS Online Feature Layer Feature Count with the ArcGIS API for Python

ArcGIS Online Feature Layer Feature Count with the ArcGIS API for Python

Table of Contents The Video Introduction Want to know how many features are in your ArcGIS Online Feature Layer while performing a workflow with the ArcGIS API for Python?  arcgis modules The API provides access to your organisations ArcGIS Online via the GIS class in the gis module. This GIS class is the gateway to ArcGIS Online. We

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Enhancing the ArcGIS Pro Definition Query Spatial Clause with ArcPy with a Multi-layer Geometry Filter

Enhancing the ArcGIS Pro Definition Query Spatial Clause with ArcPy with a Multi-layer Geometry Filter

Table of Contents The Video Introduction ArcGIS Pro 3.5 saw the addition of the Spatial Clause functionality for a Definition Query. While limited, it is a very useful addition where we can filter a layers features where they intersect another layer entirely or based on a selection. We are limited to intersects and we ae

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Backup and Restore an ArcGIS Online Dashboard using the ArcGIS API for Python

Backup and Restore an ArcGIS Online Dashboard using the ArcGIS API for Python

Table of Contents The Video Introduction The ArcGIS API for Python is a powerful Python library that allows users to interact with and automate tasks in ArcGIS Online (or Portal). The API is excellent for programmatically creating, maintaining, updating and extracting components of ArcGIS Online such as Dashboards. In this blog post we will focus

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