Export Multiple Single PDFs By Group From ArcGIS Pro Map Series
I have a Map Series in which each page is a floor plan for different sites. Each site's plans are grouped by the site address. I've had a request for single pdfs from each site, where the output filename is the address. That single pdf should contain all the pages of floors from the site. I need to do this for nearly 100 sites. Currently the only way I can specify output filenames based on page number or name is to choose the "multiple PDFs" export options. If I use the address as the filename, it will create one pdf and continually overwrite each page with the same name. If I choose the single PDF export option, I have to specify the filename before the export, so I would have to do this manually for all the sites.
Here is a screenshot with an example. I want the pdf to be named "10625 SW 35TH AVE.pdf" and contain all eight pages for the Jackson site. I want to be able to do this as a single export resulting in a single pdf (with multiple pages) for each address group.
Currently when exporting a map series by multiple page name (group?), it creates a separate single page PDF for each group, but if there are multiple pages in a group, each page in a group is written over the other since it has the same page name essentially. The output is a single page PDF for each group. Not sure if this is a bug or intended, but either way it would be nice to have a "single PDF per group' option where each group is a single PDF based on the group name with all the pages in that group based on the maps series.
Otherwise you have to select the pages in the group under the map series button on the table of contents, go to export as a single file, re write the file name, export, reselect the next group etc etc. Which for more than a few groups gets to be painful and an all day sort of task.
It would be great if mapseries could create multiple PDF-files with multiple pages using "group by" (in optional fields). Within mapseries it is possible to group a set of layouts by tabular data with "group by".
Mapseries doesn't use these groups to generate separate PDF-files. It would be helpfull if separate PDF-files could be created using these groups, when you press the export button.
Have you considered Python Map Automation?
Groups are based on a field in the index layer. You can simply query for each group to create a selection set and use the selected export option.
Here is a snippet of code for the above project:
import arcpy, os, sys
p = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("CURRENT")
l = p.listLayouts('Layout')[0]
if not l.mapSeries is None:
ms = l.mapSeries
if ms.enabled:
ms = l.mapSeries
indexLyr = ms.indexLayer
#AFC-EAST
arcpy.management.SelectLayerByAttribute(indexLyr, "NEW_SELECTION", "TeamInfo.Conf_Div = 'AFC-EAST'")
ms.exportToPDF(r"C:\Temp\AFC_EAST.pdf", "SELECTED")
#AFC-NORTH
arcpy.management.SelectLayerByAttribute(indexLyr, "NEW_SELECTION", "TeamInfo.Conf_Div = 'AFC-NORTH'")
ms.exportToPDF(r"C:\Temp\AFC_NORTH.pdf", "SELECTED")