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Create a Map document (Mxd or Msd) through python script

nidhiarora — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:26:28 GMT

Hi,
I have a folder which contains n number of shapefiles. With every update, the count of shapefile varies.
Is it feasible, through Geoprocessing script to create a map document by automatically picking all the shape files from the folder?
Regards,
Nidhi

Re: Create a Map document (Mxd or Msd) through python script

JasonScheirer — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:05:59 GMT

You will need a map file somewhere on disk, but you can save copies of it. What you would do is open an MXD with arcpy.mapping.MapDocument, then a layer file with arcpy.mapping.Layer, use layer.replaceDataSource to make it point to the shapefile, then use arcpy.mapping.AddLayer to add the layer which now points to the shapefile to the map document. You would continue until you've added all your layers and then call saveACopy on the MapDocument object to produce your new MXD with all your data sources.

Re: Create a Map document (Mxd or Msd) through python script

nidhiarora — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:38:16 GMT

Thnx got it working

regards
Nidhi