Creating a report for a holiday lights system. Residents submit pictures, comments and address to the communications department. We run scripts to create a point FC from addresses and manage the publishing of the service on a nightly basis. We have a web app that lets users see the pictures, download pdfs showing the pictures with a map of the location and provide routing if they wish. We have maps generated with Data Driven Pages to create these pdfs. We want to add a report that shows the homes in a more condensed format. See the attached image for the report that was created within ArcMap. I want to export that with python but I get an error:
print 'exporting summary report...'
report_MapDoc = "\\\\netapp02\\data\\vol4\\mis\\GIS\\Enterprise\\MapDocs\\misgis0290\\HolidayLights.mxd"
report_Layout = "\\\\netapp02\\data\\vol4\\mis\\GIS\\Enterprise\\MapDocs\\misgis0290\\HolidayLights.rlf"
report_Output = "\\\\pslgis-vm\\webapp\\com\\HolidayLights\\images\\LightsReport.pdf"
reportMxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(report_MapDoc)
df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(reportMxd)[0]
lyr = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(df)[0]
arcpy.Delete_management(report_Output)
print lyr
arcpy.mapping.ExportReport(lyr, report_Layout, report_Output)
and I get this error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\PythonUpdateScripts\UpdateHolidayLights.py", line 279, in <module>
main()
File "C:\PythonUpdateScripts\UpdateHolidayLights.py", line 255, in main
arcpy.mapping.ExportReport(lyr, report_Layout, report_Output)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.5\ArcPy\arcpy\utils.py", line 182, in fn_
return fn(*args, **kw)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.5\ArcPy\arcpy\mapping.py", line 532, in ExportReport
return report_source._arc_object.ExportReport(*gp_fixargs((report_layout_file, output_file, dataset_option, report_title, starting_page_number, page_range, report_definition_query, extent, field_map), True))
RuntimeError: Error in generating report
If I remove the picture on the right for each record, the report runs as expected. Is this a limitation of using arcpy.mapping and reporting?
