Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Managing users

In Chapter 7, Scripting Administrative Tasks, we used PortalPy to pull user information out of our Portal. We can do the same thing with the ArcGIS API for Python, but in a modern, Pythonic fashion. Let's look at how we can easily pull user information from Portal:

    import collections 
    import time 
    import pandas as pd 
    from arcgis.gis import GIS 

After we've imported the libraries we will need, we create a connection to our GIS and then perform a search for users whose username does not begin with esri_. Note how we use the bang (!) symbol as a NOT operator:

    gis = GIS("https://www.masteringageadmin.com/portal", 
              "portaladmin", "somepass")
    all_my_accounts = gis.users.search('!esri_')

What we do next should look familiar, as we ...