I have a script that I am trying to move over to Pro but I am having problems with updating text the layout . The text "Template" in the layout doesn't get updated by arcpy.GetParameterAsText. I don't know why it doesn't update, I don't get any errors. import arcpy , string , os aprx = arcpy . mp . ArcGISProject ( r "C:\Temp\ArcGISProTest.aprx" ) #acc_val = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) project = arcpy . mp . ArcGISProject ( "CURRENT" ) layer1 = project . listMaps ( ) [ 0 ] lyr = layer1 . listLayers ( "TAXLOTS" ) [ 0 ] lyt = project . listLayouts ( "Layout1" ) [ 0 ] mf = lyt . listElements ( 'MAPFRAME_ELEMENT' , '*' ) [ 0 ] arcpy . env . workspace = os . path . dirname ( project . filePath ) wp = os . path . dirname ( project . filePath ) values = arcpy . GetParameterAsText ( 0 ) fieldName = "ParID" values = values . split ( ";" ) # split values into list values = [ "'{0}'" . format ( v ) for v in values ] # add single quotes whereClause = "{0} IN ({1})" . format ( fieldName , "," . join ( values ) ) arcpy . SelectLayerByAttribute_management ( lyr , "NEW_SELECTION" , whereClause ) Name = arcpy . GetParameterAsText ( 1 ) for lyt in aprx . listLayouts ( ) : for elm in lyt . listElements ( "TEXT_ELEMENT" ) : if elm . text == "Template" : elm . text = Name with arcpy . da . SearchCursor ( lyr , [ "SHAPE@" , "ParID" ] ) as cursor : for row in cursor : featureextent = mf . getLayerExtent ( lyr ) # Set mapframe camera to featureextent mf . camera . setExtent ( featureextent ) # Reduce mapframe slightly to avoid feature clipping. mf . camera . scale *= 1.2 #arcpy.RefreshActiveView()

test it to see what you are getting then for elm in lyt . listElements ( "TEXT_ELEMENT" ) : print(elm.text) if elm . text == "Template" :

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2Quiker

I have a script that I am trying to move over to Pro but I am having problems with updating text the layout .

The text "Template" in the layout doesn't get updated by arcpy.GetParameterAsText. I don't know why it doesn't update, I don't get any errors.

<SPAN class="keyword token">import</SPAN> arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> string<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> os

aprx <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>mp<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>ArcGISProject<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>r<SPAN class="string token">"C:\Temp\ArcGISProTest.aprx"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

<SPAN class="comment token">#acc_val = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)</SPAN>
project <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>mp<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>ArcGISProject<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"CURRENT"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
layer1 <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> project<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>listMaps<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">0</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>
lyr <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> layer1<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>listLayers<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"TAXLOTS"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">0</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>
lyt <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> project<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>listLayouts<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"Layout1"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">0</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>
mf <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> lyt<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>listElements<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'MAPFRAME_ELEMENT'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'*'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">0</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>

arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>env<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>workspace <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> os<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>path<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>dirname<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>project<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>filePath<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
wp <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> os<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>path<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>dirname<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>project<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>filePath<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

values <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>GetParameterAsText<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">0</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
fieldName <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"ParID"</SPAN>
values <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> values<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>split<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">";"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>  <SPAN class="comment token"># split values into list</SPAN>
values <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"'{0}'"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>format<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>v<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">for</SPAN> v <SPAN class="keyword token">in</SPAN> values<SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN> <SPAN class="comment token"># add single quotes</SPAN>
whereClause <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"{0} IN ({1})"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>format<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>fieldName<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">","</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>join<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>values<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>SelectLayerByAttribute_management<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>lyr<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"NEW_SELECTION"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> whereClause<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

Name <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>GetParameterAsText<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">1</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">for</SPAN> lyt <SPAN class="keyword token">in</SPAN> aprx<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>listLayouts<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
    <SPAN class="keyword token">for</SPAN> elm <SPAN class="keyword token">in</SPAN> lyt<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>listElements<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"TEXT_ELEMENT"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
        <SPAN class="keyword token">if</SPAN> elm<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>text <SPAN class="operator token">==</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"Template"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
            elm<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>text <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> Name

<SPAN class="keyword token">with</SPAN> arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>da<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>SearchCursor<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>lyr<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"SHAPE@"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"ParID"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">as</SPAN> cursor<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>   
    <SPAN class="keyword token">for</SPAN> row <SPAN class="keyword token">in</SPAN> cursor<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>  
        featureextent <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> mf<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>getLayerExtent<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>lyr<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
        <SPAN class="comment token"># Set mapframe camera to featureextent</SPAN>
        mf<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>camera<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>setExtent<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>featureextent<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
        <SPAN class="comment token"># Reduce mapframe slightly to avoid feature clipping.</SPAN>
        mf<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>camera<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>scale <SPAN class="operator token">*=</SPAN> <SPAN class="number token">1.2</SPAN>  
        <SPAN class="comment token">#arcpy.RefreshActiveView()</SPAN><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

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danretired

 vals <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"1;2;3"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>split<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">";"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

values <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"'{0}'"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>format<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>v<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">for</SPAN> v <SPAN class="keyword token">in</SPAN> vals<SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>

values <SPAN class="comment token"># ---- hmmmmm</SPAN>
<SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"'1'"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"'2'"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"'3'"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>‍‍‍‍‍‍

<SPAN class="comment token"># ---- try again</SPAN>
values <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"{0}"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>format<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>v<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">for</SPAN> v <SPAN class="keyword token">in</SPAN> vals<SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>

values
<SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'1'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">'2'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">'3'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

2Quiker

That part of my codes works fine, with your recommendation gives me an error.

values <SPAN class="">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="">[</SPAN><SPAN class="">"{0}"</SPAN><SPAN class="">.</SPAN>format<SPAN class="">(</SPAN>v<SPAN class="">)</SPAN> <SPAN class="">for</SPAN> v <SPAN class="">in</SPAN> vals<SPAN class="">]</SPAN>

  ERROR 000358: Invalid expression‍.Failed to execute (SelectLayerByAttribute).<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

danretired

maybe you have empty selection so nothing to split . It is safer to be overt and check and preassign conditions that may be encountered. A couple of extra lines of code are also easier to track errors since "None" is not an iterable, so it will fail in the "for v in vals" section.

vals <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"1;2;3"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>split<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">";"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>

<SPAN class="keyword token">if</SPAN> vals<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
    out <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"{0}"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>format<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>v<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">for</SPAN> v <SPAN class="keyword token">in</SPAN> vals<SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">else</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
    out <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>

out
<SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'1'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">'2'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">'3'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>


vals <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> None
out
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Always show some sample data which includes "regular" and "edge" cases

2Quiker

That part of the code works fine, the parcel ParID's are selected and it zooms to the ParID's.

The text element in the layout doesn't get updated by the arcpy.GetParameterAsText.

This part doesn't do anything and I don't get any error.

Name <SPAN class="">=</SPAN> arcpy<SPAN class="">.</SPAN>GetParameterAsText<SPAN class="">(</SPAN><SPAN class="">1</SPAN><SPAN class="">)</SPAN>
<SPAN class="">for</SPAN> lyt <SPAN class="">in</SPAN> aprx<SPAN class="">.</SPAN>listLayouts<SPAN class="">(</SPAN><SPAN class="">)</SPAN><SPAN class="">:</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="">for</SPAN> elm <SPAN class="">in</SPAN> lyt<SPAN class="">.</SPAN>listElements<SPAN class="">(</SPAN><SPAN class="">"TEXT_ELEMENT"</SPAN><SPAN class="">)</SPAN><SPAN class="">:</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="">if</SPAN> elm<SPAN class="">.</SPAN>text <SPAN class="">==</SPAN> <SPAN class="">"Template"</SPAN><SPAN class="">:</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; elm<SPAN class="">.</SPAN>text <SPAN class="">=</SPAN> Name

<SPAN class="">&nbsp;</SPAN>

2Quiker

I had to call the text element name and in my case it was 'Text 1' not the 'Template', like below.

import arcpy

Name = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("CURRENT")
for lyt in aprx.listLayouts():
    for elm in lyt.listElements("TEXT_ELEMENT", "Text 1"):
        elm.text = Name
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

danretired

Which goes to show the usefulness of print statements when debugging

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