DDP simple index

AndyJones

Hi I have created a mapbook using DDP (around 90 pages), is there a way to create a simple index page that gives the page number and the corresponding page name? (I'm using 10.0).

Many thanks

JeffreyBarrette

DDP out of the box can not do this.  You can create the index page by exporting a separate MXD to PDF.  Then use arcpy.mapping (Python scripting) to append the pages into a single result.

Here is a snippet from the arcpy.mapping PDFDocument class help:

import arcpy, os

#Set file name and remove if it already exists
pdfPath = r"C:\Project\ParcelAtlasMapBook.pdf"
if os.path.exists(pdfPath):
    os.remove(pdfPath)

#Create the file and append pages
pdfDoc = arcpy.mapping.PDFDocumentCreate(pdfPath)
pdfDoc.appendPages(r"C:\Project\Title.pdf")
pdfDoc.appendPages(r"C:\Project\ParcelAtlas.pdf")

#Commit changes and delete variable reference
pdfDoc.saveAndClose()
del pdfDoc

Jeff