Data Driven Pages is awesome - it saves us so much time, and is such an improvement over MPS Atlas as it's now dynamic.
But one thing it still needs is the ability to create a key maps, and to output a hyperlinked multipage PDF so that users can click on a tile in the key map and go directly to the appropriate page in the PDF. This is a basic functionality of map books, and something I'm surprised ESRI hasn't accounted for yet. If I'm making a map book, people need to know how to navigate through it. And they do that either through an Index, or through a key map. I'd say key maps are WAY more intuitive.
Hi Lee. that's great about Adobe.we know that and we do that now with a lot of maps. but here we are dealing with 4,000 stinking map sheets and that is a little too much to MANUALLY link! besides, why the heck should we have to go to an outside source to fix somethign up that ESRI should easily have within the base application?!! after all, this is a SPATIAL relationship. I just don't see the logic in doing this manually. help us work smarter not harder ESRI!
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