I am building a multiple series vertical bar graph with arcpy.Graph in ArcMap 10.6.1. The short version is:
import arcpy
TESTDIR = <some dir>
arcpy.env.workspace = TESTDIR
arcpy.env.scratchWorkspace = TESTDIR
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
arcpy.env.qualifiedFieldNames = False
outGraphName = "VerticalBarGraph"
outGraphJpeg = "VerticalBarGraph.jpg"
inputTemplate = "SeriesComparison1.grf"
graph = arcpy.Graph()
inFieldNames = [f.name for f in arcpy.ListFields("OUT.dbf") if f.name != 'OID']
for i in range(1, len(inFieldNames)):
graph.addSeriesBarVertical("OUT.dbf", inFieldNames[i], "LABEL")
arcpy.MakeGraph_management(inputTemplate, graph, outGraphName)
arcpy.SaveGraph_management(outGraphName, outGraphJpeg, "MAINTAIN_ASPECT_RATIO", 1000)The output is just what I am after except that for three input fields it produces a legend with entries:
Vertical Bar
Vertical Bar 2
Vertical Bar 3
These can be changed interactively in ArcMap (see below) and I have done this to generate the template graph. I want to use Python to change these defaults, depending on user input, to the names of the input fields but I have had no success. I have been reduced to trying to reverse engineer what's going on in the interactive view:
by adding a couple of lines to the for loop above:
for i in range(1, len(inFieldNames)):
graph.addSeriesBarVertical("OUT.dbf", inFieldNames[i], "LABEL")
graph.graphSeries[i - 1].Custom = True
graph.graphSeries[i - 1].Text = inFieldNames[i]These instructions are accepted and I can print out their values but they have no effect on the graph output.
Is what I am trying to do possible with arcpy? Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place. I would be grateful for any advice.
Ian
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