Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Right-click on the Student folder you just created and select Paste"

A block of code is set as follows:

env.workspace = "C:\\student\\IntroArcPro\\Databases\\Trippville_GIS.gdb"
#Runs Union Geoprocessing tool on 2 Feature classes
arcpy.Union_analysis (["Parcels", "Floodplains"], "Parcels_Floodplain_Union", "NO_FID", 0.0003)

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

msiexec.exe /i <setup staging location>\ArcGISPro.msi ALLUSERS=1 INSTALLDIR="C:\MyArcGISPro\" /qb

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Click on Computer under the Open pane. Then, select Browse under the Computer pane."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.

The chapters are sprinkled with questions to help you assess what you have learned and to verify if you have completed exercise tasks properly, for example:

Note

Question: How many tasks are included in the Task Item you have opened and what are they?

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The answers to all the questions are listed chapter-wise in the Appendix towards the end of the book.