arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") fails when running python script in background a
The engineers I work with have requested an autosave feature for ArcGIS, so I thought I'd make them a python tool that routinely saves. The script works fine when run in the foreground, but fails when "Always run in foreground" in not checked.
The returned messages:
Is there a workaround for this issue?
The code:
"""Autosave"""import arcpyimport timeimport osarcpy.env.overwriteOutput = TrueautosaveFolder = arcpy.GetParameterAsText (0)autosaveFile = arcpy.GetParameterAsText (1)waitTime = arcpy.GetParameter (2)if not autosaveFile.lower().endswith (".mxd"): autosaveFile = autosaveFile + ".mxd"waitSeconds = int (waitTime * 60)autosaveMxd = os.path.join (autosaveFolder, autosaveFile)while True: time.sleep (waitSeconds) mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") mxd.saveACopy (autosaveMxd) del mxd
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The engineers I work with have requested an autosave feature for ArcGIS, so I thought I'd make them a python tool that routinely saves. The script works fine when run in the foreground, but fails when "Always run in foreground" in not checked.
The returned messages:
Is there a workaround for this issue?
The code:
"""Autosave"""import arcpyimport timeimport osarcpy.env.overwriteOutput = TrueautosaveFolder = arcpy.GetParameterAsText (0)autosaveFile = arcpy.GetParameterAsText (1)waitTime = arcpy.GetParameter (2)if not autosaveFile.lower().endswith (".mxd"): autosaveFile = autosaveFile + ".mxd"waitSeconds = int (waitTime * 60)autosaveMxd = os.path.join (autosaveFolder, autosaveFile)while True: time.sleep (waitSeconds) mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") mxd.saveACopy (autosaveMxd) del mxd
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