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Map Series maintain extent for all maps

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07-18-2023 08:51 AM
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JohnNergeBrooklynPark
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Posting an idea in reference to this community post. It would be very useful in some situations to have a fourth option on Map Series to maintain a fixed scale AND extent when exporting the maps.

Our specific use case is wanting to export a series of emergency exit maps where each map shows one location in a building and its associated exit routes. We still want to show the full building floor plan, so we want to be able to set a fixed scale and extent and not have them change for each map in the series.

The post mentioned above appears to include a workaround, but it'd be much nicer as a simple checkbox option when setting up the Map Series.

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AnninaHirschiWyss

Needed here too 🙂

AubriOtis
Status changed to: Needs Clarification

I think this is a case for thematic map series. Does that work in this instance?

JohnNergeBrooklynPark

I don't think so. It looks like Thematic Map Series has you choose a group layer, whereas what I'm looking to do is create a map series from a single layer and make one map per record in that layer.

Thematic Map Series maintains the scale and extent like I need to do, but it doesn't appear to be an option to run it off of a single layer like a traditional map series? So really I need a combination of both - make the series based off a single layer AND maintain the same scale and extent for each map.

AubriOtis
Status changed to: Open

@JohnNergeBrooklynPark Thank you for the clarification! I understand now and have reopened the idea for voting.