topic adding a gdb table to an mxd in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/adding-a-gdb-table-to-an-mxd/m-p/643079#M21442 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am wondering how to add a gdb table to an mxd map. I've been successful using arcpy.mapping.AddLayer for shape files in a directory, but I don't know how to reference a table within a gdb database.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks so much.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Elaine</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:55:39 GMT ElaineFarstad 2013-04-07T23:55:39Z adding a gdb table to an mxd https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/adding-a-gdb-table-to-an-mxd/m-p/643079#M21442 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am wondering how to add a gdb table to an mxd map. I've been successful using arcpy.mapping.AddLayer for shape files in a directory, but I don't know how to reference a table within a gdb database.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks so much.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Elaine</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:55:39 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/adding-a-gdb-table-to-an-mxd/m-p/643079#M21442 ElaineFarstad 2013-04-07T23:55:39Z Re: adding a gdb table to an mxd https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/adding-a-gdb-table-to-an-mxd/m-p/643080#M21443 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello Elaine,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can accomplish this by using the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/TableView/00s300000069000000/">TableView</A><SPAN> and </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/AddTableView/00s30000006m000000/">AddTableView</A><SPAN> methods:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "New Data Frame")[0]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>table = arcpy.mapping.TableView(r"C:\Test\TestGDB.gdb\testTable")</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>arcpy.mapping.AddTableView(df, table)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>arcpy.RefreshTOC()</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Matt</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:27:22 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/adding-a-gdb-table-to-an-mxd/m-p/643080#M21443 MatthewPayne 2013-04-08T13:27:22Z