arcpy modify graph legend default text

Question

I am building a multiple series vertical bar graph with arcpy.Graph in ArcMap 10.6.1. The short version is: import arcpy TESTDIR = <some dir> arcpy.env.workspace = TESTDIR arcpy.env.scratchWorkspace = TESTDIR arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True arcpy.env.qualifiedFieldNames = False outGraphName = "VerticalBarGraph" outGraphJpeg = "VerticalBarGraph.jpg" inputTemplate = "SeriesComparison1.grf" graph = arcpy.Graph() inFieldNames = [f.name for f in arcpy.ListFields("OUT.dbf") if f.name != 'OID'] for i in range(1, len(inFieldNames)): graph.addSeriesBarVertical("OUT.dbf", inFieldNames[i], "LABEL") arcpy.MakeGraph_management(inputTemplate, graph, outGraphName) arcpy.SaveGraph_management(outGraphName, outGraphJpeg, "MAINTAIN_ASPECT_RATIO", 1000)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ The output is just what I am after except that for three input fields it produces a legend with entries: Vertical Bar Vertical Bar 2 Vertical Bar 3 These can be changed interactively in ArcMap (see below) and I have done this to generate the template graph. I want to use Python to change these defaults, depending on user input, to the names of the input fields but I have had no success. I have been reduced to trying to reverse engineer what's going on in the interactive view: by adding a couple of lines to the for loop above: for i in range(1, len(inFieldNames)): graph.addSeriesBarVertical("OUT.dbf", inFieldNames[i], "LABEL") graph.graphSeries[i - 1].Custom = True graph.graphSeries[i - 1].Text = inFieldNames[i]‍‍‍‍ These instructions are accepted and I can print out their values but they have no effect on the graph output. Is what I am trying to do possible with arcpy? Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place. I would be grateful for any advice. Ian

IanMCDONALD · Accepted Answer

As near as I can establish, it can't be done.  I have used matplotlib ( https://matplotlib.org/ ) instead.