DDP simple index

[AndyJones]

Hi I have created a mapbook using DDP (around 90 pages), is there a way to create a simple index page that gives the page number and the corresponding page name? (I'm using 10.0).

Many thanks

[JeffBarrette]

DDP out of the box can not do this.  You can create the index page by exporting a separate MXD to PDF.  Then use arcpy.mapping (Python scripting) to append the pages into a single result.

Here is a snippet from the arcpy.mapping PDFDocument class help:

import arcpy, os

#Set file name and remove if it already exists
pdfPath = r"C:\Project\ParcelAtlasMapBook.pdf"
if os.path.exists(pdfPath):
    os.remove(pdfPath)

#Create the file and append pages
pdfDoc = arcpy.mapping.PDFDocumentCreate(pdfPath)
pdfDoc.appendPages(r"C:\Project\Title.pdf")
pdfDoc.appendPages(r"C:\Project\ParcelAtlas.pdf")

#Commit changes and delete variable reference
pdfDoc.saveAndClose()
del pdfDoc

Jeff