idea Dynamic Text - full arcpy support in ArcGIS Pro Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/dynamic-text-full-arcpy-support/idi-p/928862 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>Dynamic text should have an new type:&nbsp;py<BR />In the property field one could write code, that will evaulate and be passed to the dynamic text. <P>For example (result would be same as&nbsp;<SPAN style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><SPAN>&lt;dyn type="page" property="number"/&gt;</SPAN></SPAN>:</P> <P>&lt;dyn type="py" property="<SPAN style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); font-family: monospace; font-size: 11px;">arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT").</SPAN><SPAN style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><FONT face="monospace"><SPAN style="font-size: 11px;">dataDrivenPages.currentPageID"/&gt;</SPAN></FONT><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Allows for full flexibility, and access to specific layers as well as their fields and attributes. In addition, multiple lines of code can be separated with \n, similar to when code must be entered into calculate field as a tool.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <!-- content transformation source ID: 08730000000brAt --> </BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:22:47 GMT RobertSherrick 2011-08-10T00:22:47Z Dynamic Text - full arcpy support https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/dynamic-text-full-arcpy-support/idi-p/928862 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>Dynamic text should have an new type:&nbsp;py<BR />In the property field one could write code, that will evaulate and be passed to the dynamic text. <P>For example (result would be same as&nbsp;<SPAN style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><SPAN>&lt;dyn type="page" property="number"/&gt;</SPAN></SPAN>:</P> <P>&lt;dyn type="py" property="<SPAN style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); font-family: monospace; font-size: 11px;">arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT").</SPAN><SPAN style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><FONT face="monospace"><SPAN style="font-size: 11px;">dataDrivenPages.currentPageID"/&gt;</SPAN></FONT><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Allows for full flexibility, and access to specific layers as well as their fields and attributes. In addition, multiple lines of code can be separated with \n, similar to when code must be entered into calculate field as a tool.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <!-- content transformation source ID: 08730000000brAt --> </BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:22:47 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/dynamic-text-full-arcpy-support/idi-p/928862 RobertSherrick 2011-08-10T00:22:47Z