topic Iterating through features without changing extent in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/iterating-through-features-without-changing-extent/m-p/423311#M4578 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>What I want to do is iterate through the features of a feature class without changing the zoom level and change the symbology of the selected feature.&nbsp; Am I correct in assuming that this is not within the parameters of Data Driven Pages?&nbsp; Are there python tools that modify layer symbology?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:16:47 GMT Anonymous User 2013-04-09T15:16:47Z Iterating through features without changing extent https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/iterating-through-features-without-changing-extent/m-p/423311#M4578 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>What I want to do is iterate through the features of a feature class without changing the zoom level and change the symbology of the selected feature.&nbsp; Am I correct in assuming that this is not within the parameters of Data Driven Pages?&nbsp; Are there python tools that modify layer symbology?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:16:47 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/iterating-through-features-without-changing-extent/m-p/423311#M4578 Anonymous User 2013-04-09T15:16:47Z Re: Iterating through features without changing extent https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/iterating-through-features-without-changing-extent/m-p/423312#M4579 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You are correct, DDP can't be used for this scenario because DDP will change extents for each feature in the index layer.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This can be done using arcpy.mapping.&nbsp; You can't change the symbology for the individual symbols but what you can do is author an MXD with the appropriate symbology and also set the selection symbol.&nbsp; Then iterate through the features by performing an arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management on each feature to highlight it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Jeff</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:32:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/iterating-through-features-without-changing-extent/m-p/423312#M4579 JeffBarrette 2013-04-10T13:32:26Z