topic Conditional display - dynamic text on data driven page in Mapping Questions

Conditional display - dynamic text on data driven page

Zeke — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:51:02 GMT

In a grid map in Layout view with data driven pages enabled, I added dynamic text to show the grid number of grid squares adjoining the square that has the focus (i.e., GridNumber_S. GridNumber_E, etc). This works fine until a square is at the end of a row or column, where ther is no adjoing square on that side. Then the text displays '[empty]'.

Short of adding empty spaces to all the empty fields to trick the dynamic text engine, is there a way to only display the text if there's text in the field? A simple If statement would do the job, but I don't see anywhere to do this. Thanks.

Re: Conditional display - dynamic text on data driven page

Zeke — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:25:19 GMT

Let me know if that doesn't answer your question.

That is one of the best answers I've ever seen. Exactly to the point. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend.

Re: Conditional display - dynamic text on data driven page

Anonymous User — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:30:28 GMT

Where's the answer? Maybe I'm blind since they've changed this website format...again. But I don't see it.

Re: Conditional display - dynamic text on data driven page

DavidBarnes — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:29:06 GMT

Seems like answers are getting lost when old posts are getting ported over.

The answer can be found in the help. For example, in this topic:

http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/map/page-layouts/using-dynamic-text-with-data-driven-pages.htm

The brief answer is, when the string is empty, you can tell it to use any user-defined default text (or just make it blank; not sure if it would need a blank space as a sort of place holder or if it can be totally empty) by doing something like this (adjusted for your particular case, of course):