topic Add Locator to Unopened MXD in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/add-locator-to-unopened-mxd/m-p/695991#M53963 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>How do I programmatically add a locator to an unopened mxd? &nbsp; I can't find any esri pages that reference adding a locator using python. &nbsp;Everything just mentions adding layers to a map document using arcpy.mapping.AddLayer.</P><P></P><P>Basically what I'm trying to do is script the building of a runtime locator. &nbsp;I have all the other pieces in place except for adding the locator to the mxd.</P><P></P><P></P><P>-Steven</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:29:30 GMT StevenGraf1 2017-06-22T22:29:30Z Add Locator to Unopened MXD https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/add-locator-to-unopened-mxd/m-p/695991#M53963 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>How do I programmatically add a locator to an unopened mxd? &nbsp; I can't find any esri pages that reference adding a locator using python. &nbsp;Everything just mentions adding layers to a map document using arcpy.mapping.AddLayer.</P><P></P><P>Basically what I'm trying to do is script the building of a runtime locator. &nbsp;I have all the other pieces in place except for adding the locator to the mxd.</P><P></P><P></P><P>-Steven</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:29:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/add-locator-to-unopened-mxd/m-p/695991#M53963 StevenGraf1 2017-06-22T22:29:30Z Re: Add Locator to Unopened MXD https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/add-locator-to-unopened-mxd/m-p/695992#M53964 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Instead of doing it that way, I just manually created an MXD with the locator in it. &nbsp;The locator gets rebuilt then the runtime content gets created using the same MXD over and over.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:35:37 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/add-locator-to-unopened-mxd/m-p/695992#M53964 StevenGraf1 2017-06-23T00:35:37Z