Sharing Tools

Our final assignment involved updating a script and creating a toolbox with an embedded script.  We modified an existing script to use the sys.argv arguments instead of GetParameters. We also added descriptive help text and finally embedded the script securely within the tool (with a password). The end result was a tool that can be shared as one file, reducing management issues for users.

A good finale to the class as we will, hopefully, expand on our Python and ArcGIS skills and be prepared to create new tools and share them with the ArcGIS community.

Thanks for the class!  I learned a lot.  I'm mostly interested in GIS from a landscape archaeology point-of-view, so learning various ways to automate geoprocessing and working rasters will likely have a strong presence in my future.