topic Does anyone know of a script that can batch export .mxd's visible extent properties into a polygon .shp or even a .txt file? in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/does-anyone-know-of-a-script-that-can-batch-export/m-p/504261#M39602 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Basically, I want to create a map view of all the .mxd files that I have. ArcCatalog should have a map preview tab for .mxd files. Has anyone already developed this script and want to share it?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:30:27 GMT BrianWays1 2014-11-24T20:30:27Z Does anyone know of a script that can batch export .mxd's visible extent properties into a polygon .shp or even a .txt file? https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/does-anyone-know-of-a-script-that-can-batch-export/m-p/504261#M39602 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Basically, I want to create a map view of all the .mxd files that I have. ArcCatalog should have a map preview tab for .mxd files. Has anyone already developed this script and want to share it?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:30:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/does-anyone-know-of-a-script-that-can-batch-export/m-p/504261#M39602 BrianWays1 2014-11-24T20:30:27Z Re: Does anyone know of a script that can batch export .mxd's visible extent properties into a polygon .shp or even a .txt file? https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/does-anyone-know-of-a-script-that-can-batch-export/m-p/504262#M39603 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>you can<A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//00s300000062000000"> export to a report </A>but it would have to get the extent from<A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#/DataFrame/00s300000003000000/"> each data frame&nbsp; </A>&nbsp; making it pretty useless since the dataframes could have extents from the world level down to a neighbourhood level</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:55:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/does-anyone-know-of-a-script-that-can-batch-export/m-p/504262#M39603 DanPatterson_Retired 2014-11-24T21:55:44Z