'Items' missing from legend element in ArcPro 2.6

Anonymous User — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 21:58:49 GMT

Hi there,

I'm currently trying to call legend items from a layout element. However, on calling the .items attribute the following error is thrown:

'LegendElement' object has no attribute 'items'

List of attributes related to LegendElement:

['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__from_scripting_arc_object__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', '_arc_object', 'elementHeight', 'elementPositionX', 'elementPositionY', 'elementRotation', 'elementWidth', 'mapFrame', 'name', 'showTitle', 'syncLayerOrder', 'syncLayerVisibility', 'syncNewLayer', 'syncReferenceScale', 'title', 'type', 'visible']

Example code:

legend = fepExportTemplate.listElements('LEGEND_ELEMENT')[0]

print(type(legend)) # returns LegendElement

print(str(legend.items)) # produces error

Testing this on a different machine with a copy of the data allowed the .items attribute to show up fine. Beacause of this I tried running the arcpy.getInstallInfo() method to compare the two environments. The main difference that I can see is the different are the ArcGIS Pro versions, but apparently updating the version of ArcGIS Pro used by ArcServer is not an option. See below for the differences between the two.

Original data (.items attribute doesn't work)

{'LicenseLevel': 'Advanced', 'Installer': 'gisadmin', 'ProductName': 'Server', 'Version': '10.8.1', 'SourceDir': 'D:\\_geoworx\\unpack\\ArcGIS 10.8.1\\ArcGISServer\\SetupFiles\\', 'InstallType': 'N/A', 'BuildNumber': '24234', 'InstallDate': '08/08/2020', 'InstallTime': '14:35:52', 'SPNumber': 'N/A', 'SPBuild': 'N/A', 'ProVersion': '2.6.0'}

Copied data on separate computer (.items attribute works)

{'LicenseLevel': 'Advanced', 'Installer': 'AngusHunt', 'ProductName': 'ArcGISPro', 'Version': '2.8', 'SourceDir': 'C:\\Users\\AngusHunt\\Documents\\ArcGIS Pro 2.8\\ArcGISPro\\', 'InstallType': 'N/A', 'BuildNumber': '29751', 'InstallDate': '21/05/2021', 'InstallTime': '13:34:22', 'SPNumber': 'N/A', 'SPBuild': 'N/A'}

Any ideas would be very helpful.

Re: 'Items' missing from legend element in ArcPro 2.6

DanPatterson — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 22:11:34 GMT

Different versions of arcpy.

Pro's LegendElement—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

items is a readonly property

and in CIM LegendElement—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

Re: 'Items' missing from legend element in ArcPro 2.6

Anonymous User — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 22:14:42 GMT

Thanks Dan, that makes sense. Do you know if it is possible to update the Arcpy packages on an ArcGIS Server?

Re: 'Items' missing from legend element in ArcPro 2.6

DanPatterson — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 22:18:02 GMT

Don't know Angus, not a server user, but I was under the impression that server had python 2 and python 3 variants. python 3 is what Pro uses, so check your server documentation.

topic 'Items' missing from legend element in ArcPro 2.6 in ArcGIS Pro Questions

'Items' missing from legend element in ArcPro 2.6

Re: 'Items' missing from legend element in ArcPro 2.6

Re: 'Items' missing from legend element in ArcPro 2.6

Re: 'Items' missing from legend element in ArcPro 2.6