topic Can you import both symbology AND labels from a created source layer? in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/can-you-import-both-symbology-and-labels-from-a/m-p/239794#M18661 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I work with a lot of point based data layers that I create on a daily basis.&nbsp; In the past up to the present, after creating a point shapefile from an excel sheet with the data, I have a macro that was created using VBScript that put a specialized label on these points. You simply clicked the button and then it labeled each different point (the points represent different types of apartment complexes) based on its apartment type.&nbsp; What I'm trying to do now, as VBScript is becoming out-dated, is create a Python script using ArcPy that can do the same thing.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>In order to do this I have created a Layer file from one of these point shapefiles and have it ready to import the symbology from using the UpdateLayer() function.&nbsp; The problem is, at best, the UpdateLayer() function will only update the symbology of the new shapefile with the symbology from the created source layer which occurs only when the [import symbology only] parameter is set to True.&nbsp; If I set it to false, the source layer completely replaces the layer that I want to update.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>My question is: Is there a way you can import both symbology <SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;">and</SPAN> label styles from a source layer?</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>Someone I spoke to about this earlier suggested adding something at the end of my script to "re-source back to the data <I> want," but I'm not familiar with this process.&nbsp; Any help or advice would be highly appreciated.</I></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:10:15 GMT TylerSpears 2014-10-23T21:10:15Z Can you import both symbology AND labels from a created source layer? https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/can-you-import-both-symbology-and-labels-from-a/m-p/239794#M18661 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I work with a lot of point based data layers that I create on a daily basis.&nbsp; In the past up to the present, after creating a point shapefile from an excel sheet with the data, I have a macro that was created using VBScript that put a specialized label on these points. You simply clicked the button and then it labeled each different point (the points represent different types of apartment complexes) based on its apartment type.&nbsp; What I'm trying to do now, as VBScript is becoming out-dated, is create a Python script using ArcPy that can do the same thing.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>In order to do this I have created a Layer file from one of these point shapefiles and have it ready to import the symbology from using the UpdateLayer() function.&nbsp; The problem is, at best, the UpdateLayer() function will only update the symbology of the new shapefile with the symbology from the created source layer which occurs only when the [import symbology only] parameter is set to True.&nbsp; If I set it to false, the source layer completely replaces the layer that I want to update.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>My question is: Is there a way you can import both symbology <SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;">and</SPAN> label styles from a source layer?</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>Someone I spoke to about this earlier suggested adding something at the end of my script to "re-source back to the data <I> want," but I'm not familiar with this process.&nbsp; Any help or advice would be highly appreciated.</I></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:10:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/can-you-import-both-symbology-and-labels-from-a/m-p/239794#M18661 TylerSpears 2014-10-23T21:10:15Z