ArcPy: Data Driven Pages to Individual Map Packages

PeterWilson

I came across the following sample code that Chris Fox from esri wrote as a way to create a new mxd for each Data Driven Page:

mxdPath = r"C:\Project\DDPMap.mxd"
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(mxdPath)
mxdDir = os.path.dirname(mxdPath)
for pageNum in range(1, mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageCount + 1):
    mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID = pageNum
    mxdName = os.path.join(mxdDir, "DDPMap", + str(pageNum) + ".mxd")
    mxd.saveACopy(mxdName)
del mxd

Is there  a way to create a map package for each Data Driven Page instead of having to save it out first as a new mxd.

arcpy package map sample:

for mxd in arcpy.ListFiles("*.mxd"):
    arcpy.AddMessage("Packaging: {}".format(mxd))
    arcpy.PackageMap_management(mxd, os.path.splittext(mxd) [0] + ".mpk", "PRESERVE", "CONVERT_ARCSDE", "DISPLAY", "ALL")

PeterWilson

I've successfully created a python script that generates a map package for each data driven page. The only stumbling block that I still have is that the extent parameter for package map is based on the active data frame extent and not individually for each data frame. This is a shame as a lot of maps have a data frame that represents a inset of your study area. I'd like to clip my data to the extent of each data frame before creating a map package as to reduce the data being replicated for each map package.

I've attached my python script if anyone is interested.

DDPtoMapPackage.py.zip