idea Dynamic legend placement in map series in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Dynamic legend placement in map series

Woosh_AP — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:41:42 GMT

When creating a map series in ArcGIS Pro layouts, it would be great if one could move the legend to a different place/location in the layout for each page, such that it is in the place that covers the least detail in the map/study area. Perhaps there is arcypy script that can achieve this, but I have yet to find it.

Re: Dynamic legend placement in map series - Status changed to: Already Offered

JeffBarrette — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:02:54 GMT

I marked this as Already Offered in that there is an arcpy.mp sample that accomplishes this and this is unlikely to go into the core product due to how specialized and custom the requirement is.

Below is a link to a sample. It extends map series and includes layout element into the same table that drives the map series. The placement of layout elements are simply placed in fields in a table.

https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=82b99b5593e54e57b740e3898fb14c5f

Please review and I hope it helps.

Jeff - arcpy.mp and Layout SDK teams

Re: Dynamic legend placement in map series

AlfredBaldenweck — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:14:38 GMT

Hey, this is great and I'm looking forward to trying it out.

One thing though: How does one find things like this organically?