1. Best Practice for Geoprocessing Service
Nathan Smith Harvey Jing

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

3. Geoprocessing Service
What is a Geoprocessing Service?

4. Input
Input data type

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

6. Input mode

7. Input mode
Constant value

8. Input mode
Choice list

9. Input mode
User defined value

10. Input mode
REST

11. 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

12. 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

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

14. Process
Message Level
- None

15. Process
Message Level
- Info

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

17. Process
Execution mode
Synchronous

18. Process
Execution mode
Asynchronous

19. Process
Search error code in resource center

20. Process
Search error code in resource center

21. Demo
Best Practices - Troubleshooting

22. Output
Like input, there are different data types for output parameters
parameters.htm

23. Output
Output must be a model parameter
Demo

24. Output

25. Output

26. Output
Exceeded transfer limit

27. 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

28. Questions?