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Export Data Driven Pages to MXD with file name by Page Name

BrunoDeus — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:23:12 GMT

I`m trying export multiple files created by DDP to ".mxd" once each page has the file name defined by the "page name" or by a "field name". Some what the ArcGis already does to export to ".pdf" whereas it exports single-page documents using the page name for the output file name.

I saw a script from Ideas webpage: Export Data Driven Pages to MXD which is almost perfect to me, but the file name came from Page number.

I`ve tried modify It considering all the information that I saw on another pages (Help, ArcGIS Ideas, Foruns), but it doesn`t works until now.
I would like that somebody can helps me. I've made a copy from the last version of script:

>>>import arcpy, os
... mxdPath = r"C:\...\Projeto_DataDrive.mxd" # The original path is too large
... mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(mxdPath)
... mxdDir = os.path.dirname(mxdPath)
... for pageNum in range(1, mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageCount + 1):
... pageName = mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageRow.COD_APRT #This line wasn't here in the original script. The FieldName who is indexing the DDP is COD_APRT
... mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID = pageNum
... mxdName = os.path.join(mxdDir, "DDPMap" + str(pageName) + ".mxd")# I just modified str(pageNum) to str(pageName)
... mxd.saveACopy(mxdName)
... del mxd
...

I will appreciate any help.

Re: Export Data Driven Pages to MXD with file name by Page Name

JeffBarrette — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 06:33:09 GMT

I believe the issue was that you were setting the new pageName variable before changing the currentPageID. I swapped the two lines. I just tried the following and it worked:

import arcpy, os 
mxdPath = r"C:\Temp\DDP.mxd"
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(mxdPath)
mxdDir = os.path.dirname(mxdPath)
for pageNum in range(1, mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageCount + 1):
    mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID = pageNum
    pageName = mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageRow.NAME
    mxdName = os.path.join(mxdDir, "_" + str(pageName) + ".mxd")
    print mxdName
    mxd.saveACopy(mxdName)
del mxd

Jeff

Re: Export Data Driven Pages to MXD with file name by Page Name

BrunoDeus — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:11:50 GMT

I sorry to have came late, but...

It Works, Thanks for helping Jeff!!!

Re: Export Data Driven Pages to MXD with file name by Page Name

RickySones — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:00:46 GMT

So I am too having a similiar problem, probably more has to do with being new to Python and such. Code is below - What I am trying to do is export my mapbook by the page name I set it to using my data driven page layer. The attribute name is SHEET. The file it is based on is MAPGATHERINGGRD.

import arcpy
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("S:\GIS\Appalachia\Map Projects\Midstream\Exhibits\Gathering Maps\Gathering Mapbook.mxd")
for pageNum in range(1, mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageCount + 1):
mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID = pageNum
pageName = mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageROW.SHEET
arcpy.mapping.ExportToPDF(mxd, r"C:\Temp\Gathering_Page" + str(pageName) + ".pdf")

Any guidence would help.

Thanks

Re: Export Data Driven Pages to MXD with file name by Page Name

JoelCalhoun — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:27:47 GMT

I don't know for certain, but there might be two issues:

You need to change your mxd path to one of the following:

mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"S:\GIS\Appalachia\Map Projects\Midstream\Exhibits\Gathering Maps\Gathering Mapbook.mxd")
or
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("S:\\GIS\Appalachia\\Map Projects\\Midstream\\Exhibits\\Gathering Maps\\Gathering Mapbook.mxd")
or
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("S:/GIS/Appalachia/Map Projects/Midstream/Exhibits/Gathering Maps/Gathering Mapbook.mxd")

Also:

Try changing:

pageName = mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageROW.SHEET

To:

pageName = mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageRow.SHEET

I hope that helps,

Joel

Re: Export Data Driven Pages to MXD with file name by Page Name

GabrielleGrode — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:48:39 GMT

Hi there-
This is exactly what I need.

Could you please provide more detailed instructions for using the python script, as I am new to both python and DDP. I am not sure which elements of the script are personalized and which are generic code.

Many thanks,
Gabrielle

Re: Export Data Driven Pages to MXD with file name by Page Name

JeffBarrette — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:32:45 GMT

If you are simply trying to export all pages using the page name as the output pdf name, try:

import arcpy mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"S:\GIS\Appalachia\Map Projects\Midstream\Exhibits\Gathering Maps\Gathering Mapbook.mxd") ddp = mxd.dataDrivenPages ddp.exportToPDF(r"C:\Temp\Page", "ALL", multiple_files = "PDF_MULTIPLE_FILES_PAGE_NAME"

Will produce a bunch of pages using the DDP index name field with a "Page" prefix.

Jeff

Re: Export Data Driven Pages to MXD with file name by Page Name

GabrielleGrode — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:37:06 GMT

Thanks, Jeff. Actually, I want to export the maps to mxd files so I can do some final tweaking on individual map documents. I would like the individual map documents to be called the name of the DDP. I see the sample codes from the above strings, but I don't know which parts of the code I should personalize to my unique project. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!
Gabrielle

Re: Export Data Driven Pages to MXD with file name by Page Name

JeffBarrette — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 06:33:12 GMT

The following code will generate 5 MXDs based on each great lake name.

import arcpy
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\Temp\GreatLakes.mxd")
ddp = mxd.dataDrivenPages
for pageNum in range(1, ddp.pageCount + 1):
  ddp.currentPageID = pageNum
  print "Saving %s.mxd" %(ddp.pageRow.getValue(ddp.pageNameField.name))
  mxd.saveACopy(r"C:\Temp\\" + ddp.pageRow.getValue(ddp.pageNameField.name) + ".mxd")
del mxd

Jeff

Re: Export Data Driven Pages to MXD with file name by Page Name

MichelleNing — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:15:48 GMT

Hello,
    This thread has been great as I am also new to using python scripts. I have a python script that works fine within the actual mxd workspace but I would like it to run outside of the mxd workspace. If I run the the python script outside of the mxd workspace it gives me no errors but results in no PDF's. Can anyone give me a clue to what I am doing wrong? (To clarify, I want to run the python script as a scheduled windows task).
Many Thanks,
Michelle
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import arcpy, string

mxd=arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"V:\TEMP\MapBooktest\engGIS\Zoning.mxd")
ddp = mxd.dataDrivenPages
indexLayer = ddp.indexLayer
for pageNum in range(1, ddp.pageCount + 1):
    ddp.currentPageID = pageNum
    pageName = ddp.pageRow.FACET_NO
    arcpy.mapping.ExportToPDF(mxd, r"V:\TEMP\MapBooktest\engGIS\PDFtestMapbook\Zoning_" + pageName + ".pdf")
del mxd

Re: Export Data Driven Pages to MXD with file name by Page Name

MichelleNing — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:01:12 GMT

Hi Andrea,

I just figured out how to fix this same issue a couple weeks ago. You need to add an extra "\" to the end of your export location:

ddp.exportToPDF(r"O:\Missouri\MO18\Details\2013 Create from NISC GIS\TEST\\" + str(bookNum) + "_" + str(pageName) + ".pdf", "CURRENT")

Michelle

Re: Export Data Driven Pages to MXD with file name by Page Name

MichelleNing — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:22:49 GMT

THANK YOU!!! I knew it was a syntax error but I didn't know what or why.

Thanks again!

You're welcome! You need to add a extra backslash because '\' is a special character in python. I'm just learning how to utilize python too. This link might help clarify when you need to use it when you use special characters in your code:

http://pythonweb.org/projects/webmodules/doc/0.5.3/html_multipage/lib/node48.html