topic Re: Programmatic Style Library Manipulation in ArcGIS API for Python Questions

Programmatic Style Library Manipulation

DougKelly — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 23:58:27 GMT

I have many (between 400 and 4600 depending on how I do it) icon images (.png) that I need to import into style manager as marker symbols. The images are named such that they match a field in a point layer, such that I can automatically match the symbols (via a value field) to the corresponding style. The problem is in loading the style library, I really don't want to load these manually. So I was exploring how I might do it via scripting or code but I'm not having much luck. Any suggestions?

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Re: Programmatic Style Library Manipulation

DougKelly — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 00:08:35 GMT

A bit more info, there are ~4600 possible icon .png images (existing) but for any given map there will likely only be 3-400 actually utilized. Perhaps the most efficient thing to do (if I could figure out how) would be to walk through the points in a layer, and if there isn't an image in the style library matching the coded field, add the image to the library. This would avoid adding a lot of instances of icon images for which there are no matching points.