topic Re: Activate map frame arcpy in Python Questions

Activate map frame arcpy

MK13 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 02:21:51 GMT

Is it possible to activate a map frame with arcpy?

Re: Activate map frame arcpy

JeffBarrette — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:11:26 GMT

@MK13 there is not a way to activate a map frame from arcpy.mp and we don't have plans to provide that capability but I would like to hear more about your scenario. We have a few exceptions (e.g., opening and closing views) but try to provide functions that can work with scripts in the application and stand alone scripts outside the application. Activating a map frame would only work in the application. The .NET SDK provides finer grained capabilities to perform operations like this and its main focus with Add-ins is to work within the contest of the application.

Jeff - Layout and arcpy.mp teams

Re: Activate map frame arcpy

MK13 — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:16:47 GMT

Coming from the pro sdk I had imagined that I would have to activate the map frame before adding data to it but I guess I don't have to if I can utilise map.addLayer or addDataFromPath.