Enable Archiving (Data Management)

Summary

Enables archiving on a table, feature layer, or feature dataset.

Usage

• Enabling archiving provides the functionality to record and access changes made to a dataset over time.

• Archiving is only supported on enterprise geodatabases. File and personal geodatabases do not support archiving.

• Archiving may be enabled on versioned or nonversioned data.

  Learn more about enabling archiving

Syntax

EnableArchiving_management (in_dataset)

Parameter	Explanation	Data Type
in_dataset	The name of the dataset on which to enable archiving.	Feature Layer; Table View; Feature Dataset

Code Sample

EnableArchiving example (Python window)

The following code snippet illustrates how to use the EnableArchiving tool in the Python command window.

arcpy.EnableArchiving_management("Database Connections//toolbox.county.parcels")

EnableArchiving example (stand-alone Python script)

The following script illustrates how to use the EnableArchiving tool in a stand-alone script.

# Name: EnableArchiving_Example.py
# Description: Enable archiving on a dataset

# Import system modules
import arcpy

# Set local variables
in_dataset = r'Database Connections\Redlands.sde\TEST.TOOLBOX.rdlsstreets'

# Describe the properties of the dataset to see if archiving is enabled.
desc = arcpy.Describe(in_dataset)
isArch = desc.IsArchived

# Enable Archiving if it is not already enabled.
if isArch == False:
    # Execute EnableArchiving
    arcpy.EnableArchiving_management(in_dataset)
    print "{0} has been enabled for archiving.".format(in_dataset)
elif isArch == True:
    # If IsArch = True, then archiving is already enabled
    print "{0} already has archiving enabled.".format(in_dataset)

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments

Licensing Information

ArcGIS for Desktop Basic: No

ArcGIS for Desktop Standard: Yes

ArcGIS for Desktop Advanced: Yes