I have a folder that contains a few dozen shapefiles. I want to create a script that adds all of these files to the current map document. The script asks the user for a map ID (which decides what folder to load the shapefiles from). I have the following thus far:import arcpy, os, glob
# Set Workspace
base_Folder = r"N:\BASE_DATA\CANVEC\1_to_50k"
arcpy.env.Workspace = base_Folder
arcpy.env.OverwriteOutput = True
# User input for NTS mapsheet name. This variable is also used to search for the correct mapsheet.
map_No = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)
# Canvec data is stored in folders, broken down by 1:50000 mapsheet number (eg: 031, 001, 045, etc).
# This variable extracts the folder name to be used when finding the correct folder
folder_Name = map_No[0:3]
# print folder_Name
#Established the correct folder to look in when loading the specified layers.
search_Folder = base_Folder + "\\" + folder_Name + "\\" + map_No
print search_Folder
##mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")
##dataFrame = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Layers")[0]
shp_List = arcpy.ListFiles("*.shp")
for layer in shp_List:
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")
dataFrame = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Layers")[0]
layer_Path = search_Folder + "\\" + layer
addLayer = arcpy.mapping.Layer(layer_Path)
arcpy.mapping.AddLayer(dataFrame, addLayer, "BOTTOM")
arcpy.RefreshTOC()
arcpy.RefreshActiveView()
del addLayer, layer_Path, mxd
I load the script into ArcToolbox. The script executes without error, but no layers are added to my map document.I understand there are some redundant or unnecessary lines of code in here, but I think the problem is coming from the for loop.Any ideas?Thanks
