Best Practice for Geoprocessing Service Nathan Smith Harvey Jing

Overview What is a Geoprocessing Service Input Process Demo 1: Common Geoprocessing Troubleshooting Output Demo 2: Output Model Parameter Question Time

Geoprocessing Service What is a Geoprocessing Service?

Input Input data type

Input Input mode - Constant value - Choice list - User defined value

Input mode

Input mode Constant value

Input mode Choice list

Input mode User defined value

Input mode REST

Process ArcMap and ArcGIS for Server have to be the same version - Documentation says if you're publishing a geoprocessing service, the ArcGIS for Desktop and ArcGIS for Server versions must match. - The task won’t show up if the version doesn’t match

Process Script or model is scanned Data identified The Publishing Process Script or model is scanned Data identified If in the datastore, Data identified If NOT in the datastore Package Workspace is created (data is copied to this location

Process Message Level of GP service - None - Error - Warning - Info

Process Message Level - None

Process Message Level - Info

Process Execution mode - Synchronous (less than five seconds) - Asynchronous

Process Execution mode Synchronous

Process Execution mode Asynchronous

Process Search error code in resource center

Process Search error code in resource center

Demo Best Practices - Troubleshooting

Output Like input, there are different data types for output parameters http://server.arcgis.com/en/server/10.3/publish-services/linux/output-task- parameters.htm

Output Output must be a model parameter Demo

Output

Output

Output Exceeded transfer limit

Output Set your output to be in scratchGDB or scratchFolder In a python script, use os.path.join(arcpy.env.scratchGDB, “points”) scratchGDB is created in …\arcgisserver\directories\arcgisjobs\<name>_gpserver\<jobid>\scratch

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