sort maps successively in the map frame

Question

Hello,

Is it possible to successively sort maps in the map frame instead of wasting the user's time looking for the map number? Please see the shot below.

Thanks,

Salah

TomBole · Answer

All,

There is a known issue with the sorting of map frames - BUG-000138357 "Alphabetical sorting is not honored in the drop-down menu in the Format Map Frame pane".

Tom

jcarlson · Answer

Definitely the way to go. You may be able to quickly rename them all using a bit of arcpy and regex, too.

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

for lyt in aprx.listLayouts():
    pad_name = re.sub(r'(?<=Map)(?=[1-9])(?![1-9])', '0', lyt.name)
    lyt.name = pad_name

JayantaPoddar · Answer

The easiest way I can think of is to rename the initial map frames (Map1-Map9) as Map01, Map02, Map03, ..., Map09.

This will ensure all the maps are in order in the dropdown list.