Bookmarks not working after script with CIM objects

CordulaGöke — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:38:42 GMT

I have a script to adjust the scale bar and grid as CIM objects. After I ran this script, the manual use of bookmarks is not working anymore. I cannot set bookmarks nor zoom to existing bookmarks. Do I need to release the CIM objects, update or something else? When I close and reopen the map, everything is fine. I need to go manually through all bookmarks before export.

Re: Bookmarks not working after script with CIM objects

CordulaGöke — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:58:54 GMT

I just realized, when I simply go to the last extent, the extent indicator in the overview map does not update.

Re: Bookmarks not working after script with CIM objects

BrennanSmith1 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:19:42 GMT

If you could share a code snippet that might help. Are you using "CURRENT" or a file path to define the project variable?

Re: Bookmarks not working after script with CIM objects

CordulaGöke — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:29:53 GMT

@BrennanSmith1 good point . First I thought it had solved itself, but after I zoomed and ran the rescaling of scalebar and grid several times, zoom to bookmarks stopped working. Yes I use aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("CURRENT") in a jupyter notebook. It is the first project where I zoom manually through bookmarks and I also added the update_grid() only recently.

import arcpy import os import pandas as pd aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("CURRENT") arcpy.env.workspace = os.path.dirname(aprx.filePath) arcpy.env.addOutputsToMap = False

def update_scalebar(): # Get the layout's CIM definition lyt_cim = lyt.getDefinition("V3") mf_camera_scale = mf.camera.scale for elm in lyt_cim.elements: if elm.name == "Scale Bar": elm.unitLabel = "km" elm.labelFrequency = "Divisions" elm.division = round(mf_camera_scale / 80000, 0) elm.divisions = 2 elm.subdivisions = 2 # Apply the updated CIM definition back to the layout lyt.setDefinition(lyt_cim)

def update_grid(): mf_camera_scale=mf.camera.scale minute = 1 / 60 # Standard intervals in degrees standard_intervals = [1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 30] # in minutes standard_degrees = [m * minute for m in standard_intervals] # Estimate based on scale estimated_minutes = round(mf_camera_scale / 3000000 * 60) estimated_degrees = estimated_minutes * minute # Find closest standard interval grid_interval = round(estimated_degrees,0)+min(standard_degrees, key=lambda x: abs(x - estimated_degrees)) cim_lyt = lyt.getDefinition("V3") print(grid_interval) for elm in cim_lyt.elements: if elm.name == 'Map Frame': for grd in elm.grids: grd.isAutoScaled = False # Ensure manual control for grdLn in grd.gridLines: if grdLn.name == "Ticks": if grdLn.gridLineOrientation == "EastWest": grdLn.pattern.interval = grid_interval/2 # Latitude ticks elif grdLn.gridLineOrientation == "NorthSouth": grdLn.pattern.interval = grid_interval # Longitude ticks if grdLn.name == "Labels": if grdLn.gridLineOrientation == "EastWest": grdLn.pattern.interval = grid_interval # Latitude ticks elif grdLn.gridLineOrientation == "NorthSouth": grdLn.pattern.interval = grid_interval*2 # Longitude ticks lyt.setDefinition(cim_lyt)

lyt = aprx.listLayouts('Layout')[0] mf = lyt.listElements("MAPFRAME_ELEMENT",'Map Frame')[0] map_obj = mf.map update_scalebar() update_grid()

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