topic Re: df.ZoomToSelectedFeatures not working in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/df-zoomtoselectedfeatures-not-working/m-p/83133#M2853 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>thanks! I'm never sure what is supposed to go into the brackets.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>i've seen examples where stuff is in there and others where it's blank. How do we know when to do what?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:32:03 GMT JoshuaChan 2012-01-05T17:32:03Z df.ZoomToSelectedFeatures not working https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/df-zoomtoselectedfeatures-not-working/m-p/83131#M2851 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'd like to take my selected set and zoom to it in the Arcpy.mapping module. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Online I found the df.ZoomToSelectedFeatures but I keep getting this error message: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&lt;type 'exceptions.AttributeError'&gt;: 'DataFrame' object has no attribute 'ZoomToSelectedFeatures'</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Failed to execute (testScript)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>what does that mean? my code looks like: </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd,"Layers")[0]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>lyr = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd, "Tantalis Files", df)[0]</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>lyr_qry = "CROWN_LANDS_FILE = '" + filenum + "'"</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>print lyr_qry</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>gp.AddMessage(lyr_qry)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>gp.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(lyr , "CLEAR_SELECTION")</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>gp.AddMessage("old selection cleared")</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>gp.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(lyr , "NEW_SELECTION", lyr_qry)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>df.ZoomToSelectedFeatures(lyr)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>gp.RefreshActiveView()</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>gp.AddMessage("zoomed - happy?")</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:20:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/df-zoomtoselectedfeatures-not-working/m-p/83131#M2851 JoshuaChan 2012-01-03T21:20:34Z Re: df.ZoomToSelectedFeatures not working https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/df-zoomtoselectedfeatures-not-working/m-p/83132#M2852 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>df.zoomToSelectedFeatures()</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:34:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/df-zoomtoselectedfeatures-not-working/m-p/83132#M2852 JasonScheirer 2012-01-03T21:34:32Z Re: df.ZoomToSelectedFeatures not working https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/df-zoomtoselectedfeatures-not-working/m-p/83133#M2853 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>thanks! I'm never sure what is supposed to go into the brackets.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>i've seen examples where stuff is in there and others where it's blank. How do we know when to do what?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:32:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/df-zoomtoselectedfeatures-not-working/m-p/83133#M2853 JoshuaChan 2012-01-05T17:32:03Z