topic Symbol Automation for different maps in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/symbol-automation-for-different-maps/m-p/603519#M34007 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a series of 16 maps. Within those maps I need to change the symbology for a feature class. Without opening each map and make the changes individually , does anyone know how to automate this? Maybe with ArcPy or Model Builder?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:43:50 GMT AndrewTuleya2 2014-07-01T16:43:50Z Symbol Automation for different maps https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/symbol-automation-for-different-maps/m-p/603519#M34007 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a series of 16 maps. Within those maps I need to change the symbology for a feature class. Without opening each map and make the changes individually , does anyone know how to automate this? Maybe with ArcPy or Model Builder?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:43:50 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/symbol-automation-for-different-maps/m-p/603519#M34007 AndrewTuleya2 2014-07-01T16:43:50Z Re: Symbol Automation for different maps https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/symbol-automation-for-different-maps/m-p/603520#M34008 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>It can be done with arcpy using the arcpy.mapping module.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//00s300000032000000">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//00s300000032000000</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hopefully, all your maps are in the same folder(or at least have a similar root folder), and you can loop through each map document, select the dataframe that layer is in, find that layer then change the symbology.&nbsp; If the layer is named the same(or have a name that is similar) in all the map documents, this should be a fairly easy process.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:29:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/symbol-automation-for-different-maps/m-p/603520#M34008 IanMurray 2014-07-01T17:29:25Z