Allow the XMLUpdater to accept some sort of table (ex. text file, or .csv) as input for the ‘Updates’ parameter. Currently, the ‘Updates’ section must be entered manually. There is no way to import rows in bulk.
I am currently working on a workbench to update file geodatabase metadata. The default format has well over 100 metadata fields! Usually, for a task like this I’d make an input table Parameters and feed that in to the tool - in this case it would be for the parameters in the Updates section: Update Type, XML Path, Value Type, and Value.
I did a search through this forum for ‘XMLUpdater’, and found many results related to updating metadata of one kind or another. It seems to be that this improvement would be helpful for anyone looking to update metadata or complex (but well structured) XML.
I suppose another option would be to allow ‘Create User Parameter’ from the ‘Updates’ parameter. Then the user could select a file to input, or even copy paste into a text editor formatted commands for this parameter.
For now my current solution will be manually keying in my most critical top ten or so updates - but it would be simpler and less work to pull in all from a list in bulk.
Thanks for considering this improvement!