topic MapsurroundElement (arcpy.mapping) in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/mapsurroundelement-arcpy-mapping/m-p/664259#M51614 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P>I am looking for a way to reposition texts on a layout page and automate some of the map surrounding placement process.</P><P>Is it possible to adjust placement of elements on the page layout using arcpy.mapping? </P><P>Thank you</P><P>Adreeta</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:38:12 GMT ADREETATHAKUR 2015-06-21T00:38:12Z MapsurroundElement (arcpy.mapping) https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/mapsurroundelement-arcpy-mapping/m-p/664259#M51614 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P>I am looking for a way to reposition texts on a layout page and automate some of the map surrounding placement process.</P><P>Is it possible to adjust placement of elements on the page layout using arcpy.mapping? </P><P>Thank you</P><P>Adreeta</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:38:12 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/mapsurroundelement-arcpy-mapping/m-p/664259#M51614 ADREETATHAKUR 2015-06-21T00:38:12Z Re: MapsurroundElement (arcpy.mapping) https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/mapsurroundelement-arcpy-mapping/m-p/664260#M51615 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes that is possible by changing the elementPositionX and elementPositionY properties of the MapsurroundElement. See this help topic: <A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/mapsurroundelement-class.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/mapsurroundelement-class.htm">MapsurroundElement—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A> </P><P></P><P>I also recommend you to read the <A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/guidelinesforarcpymapping.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/guidelinesforarcpymapping.htm">Guidelines for arcpy.mapping—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A> </P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 21 Jun 2015 18:26:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/mapsurroundelement-arcpy-mapping/m-p/664260#M51615 XanderBakker 2015-06-21T18:26:26Z Re: MapsurroundElement (arcpy.mapping) https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/mapsurroundelement-arcpy-mapping/m-p/664261#M51616 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you for the links.&nbsp; Just another quick question: I need to reposition texts in relation to other elements on the map surround. As an example say I want to reposition my legend 20mm from the dataframe and other texts below the legend should be vertically distributed. Can this kind of repositioning be done with arcpy.mapping? </P><P></P><P>Thanks</P><P>Adreeta</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 21 Jun 2015 21:36:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/mapsurroundelement-arcpy-mapping/m-p/664261#M51616 ADREETATHAKUR 2015-06-21T21:36:30Z Re: MapsurroundElement (arcpy.mapping) https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/mapsurroundelement-arcpy-mapping/m-p/664262#M51617 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The help <A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/analyze/arcpy-mapping/mapsurroundelement-class.htm" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'helvetica neue', verdana, sans-serif; color: #287433;" target="_blank">MapsurroundElement—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>​ <STRONG style="font-size: 12.6000003814697px; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'helvetica neue', verdana, sans-serif;"><A href="https://community.esri.com/people/xander_bakker">xander_bakker</A></STRONG>gave has element X and element Y and element width all in page units it sounds like simple math from here</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:34:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/mapsurroundelement-arcpy-mapping/m-p/664262#M51617 WesMiller 2015-06-22T14:34:15Z