The Tax Parcel Editing map also includes a toolset that can be used to publish a series of layers in the published format for use by other applications, for example, the Tax Parcel Viewer and Public Notification. These publication layers can also be used as the input for the Community Parcels data aggregation workflow used by other local and state agencies.

Publish Parcels

To access the Parcel Publication models, complete the following steps:

1. In ArcCatalog or the Catalog window in ArcMap, browse to Application\Parcel Publishing\GP Publication Models.tbx toolbox and open the Publish Conveyance Division Parcels model.
2. In the Parcel Fabric Parcel Class parameter, browse to the Parcel Fabric_Parcels class.
3. In the Published ConveyanceDivision Feature Class parameter, browse to your published Conveyance Divisions.
4. Click OK.
5. Repeat steps 2 through 4 above for the Simultaneous Conveyance parcels.

Publish Tax Parcels with the TaxParcelCondo related table

To publish Tax Parcels with the TaxParcelCondo related table, complete the following steps:

1. In ArcCatalog or the Catalog window in ArcMap, browse to Application\Parcel Publishing\GP Publication Models.tbx toolbox and open the Publish Tax Parcels With 1:M Condo Table tool.
2. In the Parcel Fabric Parcels Class parameter, browse to the Parcel Fabric_Parcels class.
3. In the Publish TaxParcel Feature Class parameter, browse to your published Tax Parcels.
4. In the TaxParcelCondo Table parameter, browse to the TaxParcelCondo table. This table will be related to tax parcels using the Low Parcel Identification field.
5. Click OK.

Schedule parcel updates

The Tax Parcel Publishing tool can be used with Windows Task Scheduler to update the Tax Parcel layer (updatetaxparcels.py) on a regular interval. Scheduled updates will ensure users have access to current information to support more dynamic decision-making.

To automating the Tax Parcel publication process, complete the following steps:

1. Open Windows Task Scheduler.
2. Click Action > Create Task and name your task.
3. Click the Actions tab and click New.
4. Set the Action to Start a Program.
5. Browse to the location of your Python installation (for example, <default directory>\Python27\ArcGIS10.2\python.exe).
6. In the Add arguments text box, type the name of the script (updatetaxparcels.py) followed by the pathnames of the input parameters in double quotes.
7. In the Start in text box, type the pathname of the folder hosting your script and click OK.
8. Click the Trigger tab, click New, and set a schedule for your task.
9. Click OK.