topic Insert part/substring of project name as dynamic text in the layout in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Insert part/substring of project name as dynamic text in the layout

DineshTuladhar — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 09:16:14 GMT

Is it possible to insert only a part of the project name as a dynamic reference into the map layout?

<dyn type="project" property="name"/> inserts the whole file name, but I need to be able to show only the part of the name e.g. 1st to 10th characters of the name (since the file name may have other important information not relevant for the layout). Any options like mid function etc to retrieve substring of project name would be handy.

Any help please.

Re: Insert part/substring of project name as dynamic text in the layout

Sean_Wray — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 14:52:20 GMT

Assuming you are using data driven pages. You could add a field to the index layer and manually calculate it using Left( "thisisthefilenameoftheproject",10 ) and then you could use add dynamic text from an attribute.

https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000011568

Re: Insert part/substring of project name as dynamic text in the layout

AubriOtis — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 23:47:40 GMT

Can you use the layout name instead?

Re: Insert part/substring of project name as dynamic text in the layout

DineshTuladhar — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 01:06:03 GMT

Hi Sean,
Thank you for your suggestion. But, I am not using the data driven pages i.e. the Map Series in ArcGIS Pro and just working with a number of independent single map layouts. So going through the map series option and having to add index layer doesn't seem be helpful for this purpose.

Regards

Re: Insert part/substring of project name as dynamic text in the layout

DineshTuladhar — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 01:10:34 GMT

Hi Aubri,
I did consider that option as well, but the problem we have is only the map name gets updated when the maps are revised and I also need the text/number representing the revision in the reference that I am trying to display as the dynamic text.
Cheers