From the course: Learning ArcGIS Python Scripting (2018)
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Creating a custom toolbox - ArcGIS Tutorial
From the course: Learning ArcGIS Python Scripting (2018)
Creating a custom toolbox
- [Instructor] Python scripts can be loaded into Arc Toolbox as custom tools, but they have to be loaded into custom toolboxes. They can't be added to existing system toolboxes. It's easy to create a custom toolbox to hold your script tools. All you have to do is decide where you want the toolbox to live and what you want to call it. Over here in the Catalog tree you can see the Toolboxes folder. I can put custom toolboxes right here in My Toolboxes, which gets stored in my user profile. But these toolboxes are not really for sharing, right? Since they're in my user profile. Toolboxes can actually be created in any folder or any Geo Database so that they're easier to share. If a new toolbox is gonna contain scripts that relate only one project, I'll store them in a folder or Geo Database where the rest of the project data lives. Like in this Belize Geo Database. But if there are more generic tools that I want the entire team to use on various projects, I'll just store them in a folder…
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