topic Re: Data Driven Pages - Need to prepend field to file name when exporting individual in Mapping Questions

Data Driven Pages - Need to prepend field to file name when exporting individual pngs

EricMcGilliard — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:31:06 GMT

Using ArcMap 10.0 and data driven pages, I would like to export a series of individual .png's with unique file names based off of a field in the attribute table. I am able to use ESRI's sample arcpy script to export to individual png's, but am not able to prepend or append a name to the png's. I can only export each png with a page number.

Anyone have some advice to attach a name to each of the exported .png's?

Re: Data Driven Pages - Need to prepend field to file name when exporting individual

CPoynter — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:09:18 GMT

Hi,

Have a look at this thread. It may contain some ideas for you to try.

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/67143-How-to-adding-dynamic-text-from-an-attribute-field-to-Data-Driven-Pages?p=233611#post233611

Regards,

Craig

Re: Data Driven Pages - Need to prepend field to file name when exporting individual

JohnSobetzer — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:24:43 GMT

Try something like this in your arcpy: arcpy.mapping.ExportToPNG(mxd,r"C:\Temp\\" + str(ddp.pageRow.Name) + ".png", df)

See http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/62833-DDP-export-to-rasters-with-page-names