list map name that is reference to a layout in arcgis pro project

BarakGarty

I have a arcgis pro project that has 3 layouts each is references (linked or whatever the terminology may be) to one of the 3 maps that this project also have.

I tried to write code that uses a for loop to loop over the layout names and over the map name that associated to each layout. code below.

However i am able to get a list of all layouts and print that list of strings (keysList) but the map names that link to them is not returning. I read there a MapFrame element within a layout object that to my understanding contains the map name (among other elements, but I don't find how to call it and loop over it to access this attribute.

 

Any help is appriciates.

 

 

import arcpy
keysList = []
valuesList = []

aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("CURRENT")

    for lyt in aprx.listLayouts():
        for m in lyt.listElements():
            keysList.append(lyt.name)
            valuesList.append(m.name)
print(keysList)
print(valuesList)

 

 

 

AlfredBaldenweck

You were very close, just needed to filter the list.

import arcpy
keysList = []
valuesList = []

aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("CURRENT")

for lyt in aprx.listLayouts():
    #Filter down the list to only map frames
    for m in lyt.listElements("MAPFRAME_ELEMENT"):
    #You want the name of the map in map frame, not the map frame itself
        keysList.append(lyt.name)
        valuesList.append(m.map.name)
print(keysList)
print(valuesList)
'''Result'''
#['Layout', 'Layout']
#['Extent', 'Grey-scale']

It might be cleaner to make a dictionary:

import arcpy
mapDict= {}

aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("CURRENT")
for lyt in aprx.listLayouts():
    #Filter down the list to only map frames
    for m in lyt.listElements("MAPFRAME_ELEMENT"):
        if lyt.name in mapDict:
            #You want the name of the map in map frame, not the map frame itself
            mapDict[lyt.name].append(m.map.name)
        else:
            mapDict[lyt.name]=[m.map.name]
print(mapDict)
'''Result'''
#{'Layout': ['Extent', 'Grey-scale']}

 Helpful pages:

Layout class 

Map Frame class 

 

Hope this helps!