Export Styles

Question

Hi,

I want to export the symbol styles of all layers in an mxd file (or alternatively lyr file) into a style file. But I want to automate it to use it on a huge amount of mxd files. Is this somehow possible using a python script?

I allready tried the style manager and the "Export Map Styles" after customizing the command menu. But I cannot automate this.

Has anyone an idea how to do this?

Best Regards,

Ron

RoseF · Answer

If you haven't already, please see the following thread. Esri announced (informally?) that they would try to add this capability to Pro. But kudos, subscriptions, and comments will help them know it's important!

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/arcgis-pro-quot-export-map-styles-quot-for-bulk/idc-p/1207456#M21042

GISAdminChemnitz · Answer

Hi,

thank you for your quick responses.

The idea of Randy is interesting, but not really the solution I had in mind... I really need the style file to be written to disc, something like arcpy.write_style('C:\symbols.style'), if it would exist...

I also checked the ListStyleItems function, but with this I only can read the styles, not write them to disc, can't I?

Maybe I could somehow run the "Export Map Styles" function from the command menu using some kind of macro?

Best regards,

Ron

RandyBurton · Answer

Have you checked out ListStyleItems?