topic Re: aprx.activeView (MapView or Layout) in Python Questions

aprx.activeView (MapView or Layout)

ChrisHolmes — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:44:06 GMT

I'm stumped. The following documentation says activeView will return the active MapView or Layout. I've searched high and low trying to find code to use which will tell me If the "active view" is a map or a layout but am having zero luck.

Any insight appreciated.

Thanks!

MapView—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

Re: aprx.activeView (MapView or Layout)

JoshuaBixby — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 02:24:17 GMT

Just check the type of the object or class inheritance:

>>> type(aprx.activeView)
<class 'arcpy._mp.Layout'>
>>> isinstance(aprx.activeView, arcpy._mp.Layout)
True
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Re: aprx.activeView (MapView or Layout)

ChrisHolmes — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:10:30 GMT

Thanks so much Joshua!

Re: aprx.activeView (MapView or Layout)

JoshuaBixby — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:16:27 GMT

If my response answered your question, please mark it Correct to cloud out the question.

Re: aprx.activeView (MapView or Layout)

ChrisHolmes — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:19:36 GMT

Just did, thanks. Had been away from my computer...

Re: aprx.activeView (MapView or Layout)

ChrisHolmes — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:00:56 GMT

Once I've got the activeView how do I grab the name of the MapView or Layout?

Re: aprx.activeView (MapView or Layout)

JoshuaBixby — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:15:52 GMT

view = aprx.activeView

name = view.map.name

Re: aprx.activeView (MapView or Layout)

ChrisHolmes — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:20:29 GMT

ah .map.name

I was trying just .name

Suppose it makes sense when you think about it though.

Are these properties documented anywhere? Then only documentation I could find about activeView is basicallly the page I linked in the original question.

Thanks!

Re: aprx.activeView (MapView or Layout)

JoshuaBixby — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 23:01:44 GMT

It is all in the documentation. The MapView—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation documentation shows a "map" property that returns a Map—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation object that has a "name" property.

You just need to follow the bread crumbs.

Re: aprx.activeView (MapView or Layout)

ChrisHolmes — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 23:34:56 GMT

True. So I came up with the following:

When the active view is a map it displays the map name and when the active view is a layout it displays the layout name.

I was thinking that getting the name of the active layout should be mv.layout.name but no it's just mv.name

Logically it doesn't really make sense to me, but it works and I'm happy with that.

Thanks for all your help