topic Re: How to get user current extent in arcpro in ArcGIS Pro Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-get-user-current-extent-in-arcpro/m-p/372756#M16390 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have found that I could manually go to Project &gt; Save and run the code which will give me the updated extent. However, I am trying to avoid making users do this. I know desktop I can get the user current extent from dataframes, but i can't figure it out with pro. Also, the save() method doesn't work well in the python console. it'll save the project but will not update the extent. </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:44:21 GMT ianmcintosh 2017-10-31T20:44:21Z How to get user current extent in arcpro https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-get-user-current-extent-in-arcpro/m-p/372754#M16388 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am trying to figure out how to write python code to get the user current extent from the map view. so far I have this</P><P>aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject('Current')</P><P>mp = aprx.listMaps()[0]</P><P>view = mp.defaultCamera</P><P>print(view.getExtent())</P><P></P><P>however, I have to manually hit save for the getExtent to work. is there a way to get the current extent from the Map view?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:00:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-get-user-current-extent-in-arcpro/m-p/372754#M16388 ChadCarlson1 2017-10-31T19:00:52Z Re: How to get user current extent in arcpro https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-get-user-current-extent-in-arcpro/m-p/372755#M16389 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Save the script? or the project?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:31:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-get-user-current-extent-in-arcpro/m-p/372755#M16389 DanPatterson_Retired 2017-10-31T20:31:17Z Re: How to get user current extent in arcpro https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-get-user-current-extent-in-arcpro/m-p/372756#M16390 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have found that I could manually go to Project &gt; Save and run the code which will give me the updated extent. However, I am trying to avoid making users do this. I know desktop I can get the user current extent from dataframes, but i can't figure it out with pro. Also, the save() method doesn't work well in the python console. it'll save the project but will not update the extent. </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:44:21 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-get-user-current-extent-in-arcpro/m-p/372756#M16390 ianmcintosh 2017-10-31T20:44:21Z