topic Re: setting data driven pages with python in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/setting-data-driven-pages-with-python/m-p/579950#M6327 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You cannot activate DDP from Python, you can only use DDP-enabled maps.For anything dynamic you might want to think about using an MXD set up for Data Driven Pages already, then use </SPAN><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Layer/00s300000008000000/">Layer.replaceDataSource</A><SPAN> to swap out the data for your new feature class. The only issue here is your field names will still need to all be the same.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:03:41 GMT JasonScheirer 2011-03-05T22:03:41Z setting data driven pages with python https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/setting-data-driven-pages-with-python/m-p/579948#M6325 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is there a way to enable and run data driven pages using python? I would like to run datadriven pages on a shape and select the page name, extent, round to the nearest.. and all those properties using python script. Please let me know how if its possible. Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:49:10 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/setting-data-driven-pages-with-python/m-p/579948#M6325 jamesborris 2011-03-04T19:49:10Z Re: setting data driven pages with python https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/setting-data-driven-pages-with-python/m-p/579949#M6326 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>check the online help, </SPAN><BR /><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00s300000030000000.htm">http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00s300000030000000.htm</A><BR /><SPAN>you can start at the top of the arcpy mapping tree and follow it down for information on classes etc</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Geoprocessing_scripts_for_map_document_management_and_output/00s300000032000000/">http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Geoprocessing_scripts_for_map_document_management_and_output/00s300000032000000/</A></BODY></HTML> Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:27:11 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/setting-data-driven-pages-with-python/m-p/579949#M6326 DanPatterson_Retired 2011-03-05T13:27:11Z Re: setting data driven pages with python https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/setting-data-driven-pages-with-python/m-p/579950#M6327 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You cannot activate DDP from Python, you can only use DDP-enabled maps.For anything dynamic you might want to think about using an MXD set up for Data Driven Pages already, then use </SPAN><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Layer/00s300000008000000/">Layer.replaceDataSource</A><SPAN> to swap out the data for your new feature class. The only issue here is your field names will still need to all be the same.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:03:41 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/setting-data-driven-pages-with-python/m-p/579950#M6327 JasonScheirer 2011-03-05T22:03:41Z