I am attempting to export a range of sheets in a map series in ArcPro. I'm basing my code off ESRI's code sample 2 here https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/arcpy/mapping/mapseries-class.htm. import arcpy , os , sys relpath = r "S:\Tax Services\Tax Maps" aprx = arcpy . mp . ArcGISProject ( r "S:\FC GIS\GIS Projects\New Tax Maps\Tax Map DDP\Tax Map DDP - new.aprx" ) l = p . listLayouts ( ) [ 1 ] if not l . mapSeries is None : ms = l . mapSeries if ms . enabled : for pageNum in range ( 1 , 5 ) : ms . currentPageNumber = pageNum print ( "Exporting {0}" . format ( ms . pageRow . Page ) ) pageName = ms . pageRow . Page l . exportToPDF ( relpath + "MapSheet_{0}" . format ( ms . pageRow . page ) + ".pdf" ) However, I keep getting the following error: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ValueError Traceback ( most recent call last ) ipython - input -3 - 2671737b67ee > in module > ( ) 9 for pageNum in range ( 1 , 5 ) : 10 ms . currentPageNumber = pageNum - - - > 11 print ( "Exporting {0}" . format ( ms . pageRow . Page ) ) 12 pageName = ms . pageRow . Page 13 l . exportToPDF ( relpath + "MapSheet_{0}" . format ( ms . pageRow . Page ) + ".pdf" ) C : \Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\_mp . py in pageRow ( self ) 2240 @property 2241 def pageRow ( self ) : - > 2242 return self . convert ( convertArcObjectToPythonObject ( getattr ( self . _arc_object , "pageRow" ) ) ) 2243 2244 C : \Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\_mp . py in convert ( self , dictionary ) 2236 def convert ( self , dictionary ) : 2237 from collections import namedtuple - > 2238 return namedtuple ( 'pageRow' , dictionary . keys ( ) ) ( ** dictionary ) 2239 2240 @property C : \Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro - py3\lib\collections\__init__ . py in namedtuple ( typename , field_names , verbose , rename , module ) 399 if not name . isidentifier ( ) : 400 raise ValueError ( 'Type names and field names must be valid ' - - > 401 'identifiers: %r' % name ) 402 if _iskeyword ( name ) : 403 raise ValueError ( 'Type names and field names cannot be a ' ValueError : Type names and field names must be valid identifiers : 'Shape.STArea()' Any help would be appreciated!

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ExportingToPDF Python for Map Series

Kara_Shindle

I am attempting to export a range of sheets in a map series in ArcPro. I'm basing my code off ESRI's code sample 2 here https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/arcpy/mapping/mapseries-class.htm.

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l <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> p<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>listLayouts<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">1</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>
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      pageName <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> ms<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>pageRow<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>Page
      l<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>exportToPDF<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>relpath <SPAN class="operator token">+</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"MapSheet_{0}"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>format<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>ms<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>pageRow<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>page<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN> <SPAN class="operator token">+</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">".pdf"</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>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

However, I keep getting the following error:

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      <SPAN class="number token">9</SPAN>         <SPAN class="keyword token">for</SPAN> pageNum <SPAN class="keyword token">in</SPAN> range<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">1</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="number token">5</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
     <SPAN class="number token">10</SPAN>           ms<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>currentPageNumber <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> pageNum
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     <SPAN class="number token">12</SPAN>           pageName <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> ms<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>pageRow<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>Page
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   <SPAN class="number token">2237</SPAN>       <SPAN class="keyword token">from</SPAN> collections <SPAN class="keyword token">import</SPAN> namedtuple
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Any help would be appreciated!

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Kara_Shindle

Thank you for all of your work helping me on this. I greatly appreciate it.

Kara_Shindle

Thank you for the suggestions. I will look into adapting my script!

jbarrette

I really want to thank Earl from Esri Support for being persistent and chasing this down! I did not reproduce because I tested with the project package sent to me - that was a fGDB. Earl submitted a bug and I committed it to our development queue. I prioritized this for 2.5. (it is too late for 2.4).

Jeff

EarlMedina

Hi there GIS Coordinator,

I am going to guess that you are working with a Line/Polygon Feature Class stored in an Enterprise Geodatabase? I spoke earlier with Jeff about another customer's issues with a SQL Server Polygon Feature Class - it looks like the problem here is due to some reserved field names appearing in a dictionary used by exportToPDF. Please go ahead and contact Esri Support Services about being added to the defect log for the issue so you can closely track the status of a fix: "BUG-000123108: exportToPDF fails with "ValueError: Type names and field names must be valid identifiers: 'st_area()/'st_length()'" for SDE polygon and line feature classes."

Unfortunately, there's not a clean way to fix this in your script as the problem lies in the arcpy library itself. However, you can work around the issue by:

Using a File Geodatabase Feature Class instead.
If using a File Geodatabase is completely out of the question, another option would be to:
- Create center points from the SDE Line/Polygon Feature Class using a tool like https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/data-management/feature-to-point.htm, storing the output in the same Enterprise Geodatabase as a point feature class
- Base the Map Series on the SDE point feature class instead (you can bury the Point FC behind other layers/make it completely transparent/etc. and remove it from Legend). The effect here will be that it'll look like the Map Series is based on the original Line/Polygon feature class.

Hope this helps!

-Earl

jbarrette

Great. A project package is better, it will contain all the map series settings. You can probably get rid of most data, leave the index layer, and save to a temporary aprx before packaging. This is to avoid a huge file size.

Jeff

Kara_Shindle

I have the field set to None, that is how I was able to fix the problem I was having similar to Elizabeth's post. I will put together a map package. thanks.

jbarrette

Hello,

I started to reply to this via: https://community.esri.com/message/855395-re-exporttopng-python-for-mapseries

I don't know how to reproduce this error. Are you specifying a field to define page numbers? If so, is it numerically defined? If you set this parameter to None, does your code work?

You are also welcome to send me a project package to jbarrette@esri.com

Jeff (arcpy.mp team)

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