Export to SVG with ID attribute

BF_TadejBevk — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 14:03:51 GMT

Hi,

i'd like to convert an existing SHP file to SVG with included id attributes to identify each polygon (path) in the exported SVG. However, when exported, only the <g> tag that includes all polygons in the SVG is assigned an id attribute equal to the SHP name. I would need each <path> element to have an id attribute equal to the id of the polygon from shapefile (well, from it's attribute table).

Step by step replication (version 3.1.2):

Open new project, load a single shapefile, no basemaps. Go to Share, Export Map. Choose SVG under File Type, set location and name, leave Output as image unchecked. Export. Inspect SVG in notepad to see if each <path> element has id assigned.

What I need to see in SVG file is something like:

what I instead get is something like this:

The help page on exporting to svg here mentions "Options specific to vector data, such as Layers and attributes...", but I cannot find these options anywhere.

A workaround might be to create a separate SHP for each polygon in original SHP and export the map - each SHP would then be it's own <g> element. But I would prefer a more elegant solution if anyone has any idea how to acheive this.

Best regards,

Re: Export to SVG with ID attribute

JoannaMerson2 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 20:04:34 GMT

Hi - We'd like to do something very similar. We are using an SVG as a lightweight interactive map. Our processes is to export a layer of point features to and SVG that we can overlay over a basemap image.
For a map with a small number of features our workflow for creating the interactive svg maps is:

Export from ArcGIS Pro to .aix
Open .aix in illustrator
Overlay layer over AI/Photoshop designed basemap and refine placement of data points
Manually rename data points (paths) to include an id attribute that links the data point to the aspatial data set (essentially an attribute table)
Export to SVG in illustrator
Add interactivity using D3.JS
1. set CSS styling for points
2. Add hover iterations

For a larger dataset, setting the IDs by hand is rather onerous. We'd appreciate any other workflows or methods to get the IDs onto the points (paths).

Thanks.

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