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Dynamic Layout Title (ArcGIS Pro)

Business_IntelligenceSoftware

Is there a way to make the title of a layout dynamic with a feature class? I know there is dynamic text with the Map Frame, Project Name, Metadata, and many other things. From the research I have done it seems like it might have been possible in ArcMap, but I have been unable to find anything in ArcGIS Pro that would allow for the layout title to be dynamic with a feature class.

To expand a little further. I have a large arcpy script where 80 layouts are created (from 1 template layout) and exported into a PDF, but right now each layout has the same generic title so sometime it is hard to know what data is being shown in the layout. This problem could be solved if the layout's title was Dynamic with the feature class that is being portrayed in the layout.

I considered using the following code, which uses the TextElement, but it looks to me like I would have to specify each individual title for every layout. And if I have 80+ layouts, that could take a long time.

<SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">p </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">=</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> arcpy</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">mp</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #2b91af; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">ArcGISProject</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"Current"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">)
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">for</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> lyt </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">in</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> p</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">listLayouts</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">():</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; for</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> elm </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">in</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> lyt</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">listElements</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"TEXT_ELEMENT"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">):</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> elm</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">name </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">==</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"title"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">:</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># this is the element name set via text properties&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># add layout feature class check logic</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; elm</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">text </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">=</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"New Title"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># changing title name</SPAN>

Am I reading this right?

Is there a better way?

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Business_IntelligenceSoftware

The final code I used to get the results I was looking for is:

<SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">import</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> arcpy
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">from</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> arcpy </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">import</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> env
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">import</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> sys
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">import</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> os
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">import</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> datetime
elm_name </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">=</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"My Dynamic Title"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># the name you assign to the title (TEXT) element
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">p </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">=</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> arcpy</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">mp</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #2b91af; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">ArcGISProject</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">r</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"C:\arcGIS_Shared\Python\CenterHeatMaps.aprx"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">)
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">for</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> lyt </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">in</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> p</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">listLayouts</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"Layout_King"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">):</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># get the element
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">for</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> elm </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">in</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> lyt</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">listElements</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"TEXT_ELEMENT"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">):
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">if</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> elm</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">name </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">==</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> elm_name</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">:
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; text_elm </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">=</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> elm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">break

</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">for</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> m </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">in</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> p</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">listMaps</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">():</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># loop through your layer / layouts / maps
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">for</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> lyr </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">in</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> m</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">listLayers</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"BCBS*"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">):
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; new_title</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">=</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">lyr</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">name </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># do your logic with the layer
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; elm</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">text</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">=</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">new_title
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;lyt</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">exportToPDF</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">r</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"C:\arcGIS_Shared\Exports"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">+</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"\\BCBS_"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">+</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> elm</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">name</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">[</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">13</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">:]</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">+</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">".pdf"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">)</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># export the map
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">print</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">elm</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">name</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">[</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">13</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">:])</SPAN>

Thank you everyone for your help and input!

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DanPatterson_Retired

so the slice was the problem then

Business_IntelligenceSoftware

The final code I used to get the results I was looking for is:

<SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">import</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> arcpy
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">from</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> arcpy </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">import</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> env
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">import</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> sys
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">import</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> os
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">import</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> datetime
elm_name </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">=</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"My Dynamic Title"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># the name you assign to the title (TEXT) element
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">p </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">=</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> arcpy</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">mp</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #2b91af; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">ArcGISProject</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">r</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"C:\arcGIS_Shared\Python\CenterHeatMaps.aprx"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">)
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">for</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> lyt </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">in</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> p</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">listLayouts</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"Layout_King"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">):</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># get the element
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">for</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> elm </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">in</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> lyt</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">listElements</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"TEXT_ELEMENT"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">):
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">if</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> elm</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">name </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">==</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> elm_name</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">:
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; text_elm </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">=</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> elm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">break

</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">for</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> m </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">in</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> p</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">listMaps</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">():</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># loop through your layer / layouts / maps
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">for</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> lyr </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">in</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> m</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">listLayers</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"BCBS*"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">):
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; new_title</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">=</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">lyr</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">name </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># do your logic with the layer
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; elm</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">text</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">=</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">new_title
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;lyt</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">exportToPDF</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">r</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"C:\arcGIS_Shared\Exports"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">+</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">"\\BCBS_"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">+</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> elm</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">name</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">[</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">13</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">:]</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">+</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">".pdf"</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">)</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"> </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #858c93; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;"># export the map
</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #101094; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">print</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">(</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">elm</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">.</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">name</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">[</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #7d2727; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">13</SPAN><SPAN class="" style="color: #303336; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit;">:])</SPAN>

Thank you everyone for your help and input!

Business_IntelligenceSoftware

I forgot to specify that it is really just one layout that is being used as a template. So the 80 PDFs are really just different versions of the same layout

XanderBakker

You could read out the layer used fro a layout, determine the name in the layout and use that as the text in the text element. Do you have all the 80 layouts in a single ArcGIS Pro project? How are the map frames defined for each layout?

Business_IntelligenceSoftware

I updated my question in response to your TextElement suggestion

XanderBakker

Have you considered using a TextElement—ArcPy | ArcGIS Desktop and updating the text property?

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