Yet another PDF export error

[TrishRice]

I've got an mxd with about 3300 point features as my DDP index.  The index layer also has a joined Excel table to populate dynamic text on my layout.  Each month I update attributes on about 10-30 of those features based on the activities of our city maintenance crew and export new PDFs.  It takes hours to export the entire set to PDF so I only export the pages with recent changes.

When I try to export the selected pages I get this message: "Export failed.  An unexpected error occurred while trying to Export the Map."

This doesn't happen if I export a page range and type in the page numbers manually.  It also doesn't happen if I remove the table join, but I need that data on my layout.  There is no error code to look up.  Does anybody have a solution to this?

[JeffBarrette]

If you only export the pages that have changes and typing in ranges or numbers manually works then where is it failing on you?

Does it fail all the time or only on specific pages?

Have you tested moving the excel data into a GDB table - does it fail then?

Jeff

[TrishRice]

Thanks for the quick reply. 🙂 Also I forgot to mention this is in version 10.

If you only export the pages that have changes and typing in ranges or numbers manually works then where is it failing on you?

"Failing" isn't the right word.  It's extra steps in what is supposed to be an automatic process.  Since this is something that I do each month until forever, it's getting old fast.

Does it fail all the time or only on specific pages?

All the time.  It doesn't matter which pages are selected.

Have you tested moving the excel data into a GDB table - does it fail then?

Yes.

[JeffBarrette]

You'll need to open an incident with support services.  They'll be able to help isolate the issue and identify what is causing the problem.

Jeff

[TrishRice]

OK, thanks