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blue outline on maps from arcpy.searchcursor

PaulFrank — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 20:01:23 GMT

Hello,

Perhaps this is really an Arcmap question, but I am using arcpy.searchcursor to find new records, perform a definition query on a polygon, and create maps from the polygon outline. Everything works as intended except after the first map, subsequent maps have a polygon with the blue selection outline. Ive tried a few things to eliminate this. One workaround I have considered is creating a new layer from the definition query, and removing the old layer. I have also changed the options in Arcmap to not use blue as a selection color.

I suppose this has something to do with the searchcursor, but I am not sure how to get around that.

Thanks for looking

Paul Frank

Re: blue outline on maps from arcpy.searchcursor

DarrenWiens2 — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 20:07:21 GMT

Without inspecting your script, have you run (or considered running) Select Layer By Attribute, specifying CLEAR_SELECTION as the selection method, to remove the selection from your layer?

Re: blue outline on maps from arcpy.searchcursor

PaulFrank — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 21:53:16 GMT

Darren,

You helped me figure it out. I did have the code you suggested but I got to thinking it still had something to do with the surchcursor. It turns out I needed to move on to the next record before exporting the map, as opposed to after, which is how I had it.

Thanks!

Re: blue outline on maps from arcpy.searchcursor

DarrenWiens2 — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 21:59:02 GMT

Glad you figured it out. As a postscript, if you're interested and using 10.1+ (I think), you may want to look into using arcpy.da.SearchCursor(). They're faster and don't require "nexting".

Re: blue outline on maps from arcpy.searchcursor

PaulFrank — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 22:08:55 GMT

Darren,

Now I think you were correct the first time. I ran it again and my fix didn't work. So then I looked at it again, and I am using 2 versions of the same layer in this mxd, so I went back and added your code to the other layer, and everything looks correct now. I am still a little foggy on what is going on but it seems to work. Again, thanks!