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Add bookmark(.dat) file to MXDs using arcpy?

Yaron_YosefCohen

Does anyone know any python script to import a bookmark (saved as a .dat) that was created and saved in folder by using arcpy? I tried with this script but without a result- just the name of the projects printed:

import arcpy
from arcpy import env

env.workspace = r"D:\desktop\Project"
for mxdname in arcpy.ListFiles("*.mxd"):
    print mxdname
    mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"D:\desktop\Project\\" + mxdname)
    df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Layers")[0]
    for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd, 'Bookmark1', df):
        print(str(bkmk.extent))
        df.extent = bkmk.extent
    mxd.save()
del mxd

For clarity, i asked it in Importing external bookmark (.dat) files into many MXDs using arcpy? - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange

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C_EHoward

I am searching for a way to do something very similar- grab extents of bookmarks created somewhere (initially thought in AGOnline, but I can use MXD too) and then have those extents in a file somewhere so I can use them to append to my webmap URL to use the same web map in multiple iframes. Your code looks like it will give me what I need but I get this error:

Runtime error

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 17, in <module>

IndexError: list index out of range

I copied your code from here and just added the references to my folder location. I rarely use Python so I am not sure what I am doing wrong. My CSV file does have the headers for

mxd

bmName

minX

minY

maxX

maxY

but no bookmakr data itself

any ideas? thanks

Yaron_YosefCohen

Rebecca, i run your code and get:

>>>
project.mxd
name): Bookmark 1 [2]  extent: 157281.902972993 610080.837486482 158430.021501965 610788.233211336 NaN NaN NaN NaN
xmin: 157281.902972993, ymin: 610080.837486482, xmax: 158430.021501965, ymax: 610788.233211336
outFile is closed:  True
>>>

but the data frame didn't zoomed into the bookmark.

RebeccaStrauch__GISP

YYC. Interesting idea.

Although I didn't get to the capture part, I did make a few changes so at least you can print it out. Should be easier to work from this point on

import arcpy  
from arcpy import env  
import os
import csv

#ProjDir = r"C:\_beartest\ArcticWork"
ProjDir = r"D:\desktop\Project"
arcpy.env.workspace = ProjDir
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
outFileCSV = os.path.join(ProjDir, "bkmrkOut") + ".csv"
csvFile = open(outFileCSV, "w") 
csvFile.write("mxd, bmName, minX, minY, maxX, maxY \n")

for mxdname in arcpy.ListFiles("*.mxd"):  
    print mxdname  
    mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(arcpy.os.path.join(ProjDir, mxdname))
    df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Layers")[0]  
    bookmarks = arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd)
    for bmName,bmExtent in bookmarks:  
        print("name): {0}  extent: {1}".format(bmName, bmExtent))
        minmax = str(bmExtent).split(" ")
        print("xmin: {0}, ymin: {1}, xmax: {2}, ymax: {3}".format(minmax[0], minmax[1], minmax[2], minmax[3]))
        csvFile.write("{0}, {1}, {2}, {3}, {4}, {5} \n".format(mxdname, bmName, minmax[0], minmax[1], minmax[2], minmax[3]))
        #df.extent = bkmk.extent  
    #mxd.save() 
#del mxd

csvFile.close()
print("outFile is closed:  " + str(csvFile.closed))

EDITED: updated my code to write all the bookmarks (mxd name, bookmark name, xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax) to a .csv file. So, still not what you are trying to get at, but might be a helpful utility if trying to standardize bookmarks or read in to another mxd. Something I'll use.

Yaron_YosefCohen

i will try and let you know- thanks Dan!!

DanPatterson_Retired

which means it didn't even get into the bookmark ListBookmarks loop or maybe it didn't even find an appropriate dataframe.... more print statements

Yaron_YosefCohen

i did that - noop, it still just printed the mxdname 😞

DanPatterson_Retired

don't go cheap on the print statements...why not add print(bkmk) to see if there are any bookmarks and ... print(str(bkmk.extent)) to see if there is any extent. etc etc

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