topic How to populate legend descriptions via a field value, or with arcpy? in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-populate-legend-descriptions-via-a-field/m-p/257158#M19782 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello all,</P><P></P><P>I am using descriptions to populate my legend since I have better control over wrapping of text.&nbsp; That said, I have entered all the static symbols' descriptions by hand.&nbsp; However, I do have a few unpredictable symbols that I need to add dynamically.&nbsp; Thus, does anyone know how to do one of the following.</P><P></P><P>Populate Legend Symbol descriptions via a text field in the layer's attribute table?</P><P></P><P>or</P><P></P><P>Populate Legend Symbol descriptions via arcpy individually?&nbsp; I cant populate the entire set of symbols as they are already set in the mxd doc.&nbsp; I just need to be able to populate descriptions for these "wild card" symbols.</P><P></P><P>Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:33:36 GMT CharlesGant 2016-02-02T11:33:36Z How to populate legend descriptions via a field value, or with arcpy? https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-populate-legend-descriptions-via-a-field/m-p/257158#M19782 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello all,</P><P></P><P>I am using descriptions to populate my legend since I have better control over wrapping of text.&nbsp; That said, I have entered all the static symbols' descriptions by hand.&nbsp; However, I do have a few unpredictable symbols that I need to add dynamically.&nbsp; Thus, does anyone know how to do one of the following.</P><P></P><P>Populate Legend Symbol descriptions via a text field in the layer's attribute table?</P><P></P><P>or</P><P></P><P>Populate Legend Symbol descriptions via arcpy individually?&nbsp; I cant populate the entire set of symbols as they are already set in the mxd doc.&nbsp; I just need to be able to populate descriptions for these "wild card" symbols.</P><P></P><P>Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:33:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-populate-legend-descriptions-via-a-field/m-p/257158#M19782 CharlesGant 2016-02-02T11:33:36Z