Network Analyst and Geoprocessing in the Background

Well, I never used wordpress, oh well. Anyway, I realized as much as I like twitter and such, I still need to blog for my own documentation of ideas and GIS techniques.

So here it goes, again:

So the last day or two I've been running in to this problem with using Network Analyst for geoprocessing. It seems that running it in the background in ArcCatalog doesn't work but running in the foreground in ArcMap works fine (I'm running 10.0 SP5-maybe 10.1 fixes this).

I've avoided scripting Network Analyst functions for a while now but decided to make the leap. So after much frustration and reading the Esri forums (which are still annoying since the migration), I found out it will only run in the foreground. I'm getting some weird server error. So no big deal, just sort of a crummy workaround.