exportToPDF missing elements

[AliciaShyu]

I wrote a script that exports a title page and a map series. When I run the script manually in PyCharm, the title page exports correctly.

When I set up the script to run in windows task scheduler, the title page exports without the map frame (see image below)

Has anyone come across this and is there a way to fix it?

Here's the code that exports the title page and map series.

proProject = "\\\\Scripts\\Python\\MapBook\\MapBook.aprx"
PDFDir = "\\\\Scripts\\Python\\MapBook\\Output"
p = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject(proProject)

    try:
        # Export new title page to pdf
        TitleFile = PDFDir + "\\TitlePage.pdf"
        tLayout = p.listLayouts("TitlePage")[0]
        tLayout.exportToPDF(TitleFile)
        print("Exported new title page " + "\n" + arcpy.GetMessages())
        mylog.write("Exported new title page" +"\n")
    except:
        message = arcpy.GetMessages()
        print(message)
        mylog.write("Error exporting new title page" + message + "\n")
        arcpy.AddMessage(message)
        mylog.write("Processing Aborted...." + "\n")
        sys.exit("Processing Aborted..")

    try:
        # Export new map book pages to pdf
        MBfile = PDFDir + "\\MapPages.pdf"
        mbLayout = p.listLayouts("MapPages")[0]
        mapSeries = mbLayout.mapSeries
        if mapSeries.enabled:
            mapSeries = mbLayout.mapSeries
            mapSeries.refresh()
            mapSeries.exportToPDF(MBfile)
        print("Exported new map pages" + "\n" + arcpy.GetMessages())
        mylog.write("Exported new new map pages" +"\n")
    except:
        message = arcpy.GetMessages()
        print(message)
        mylog.write("Error exporting new map pages" + message + "\n")
        arcpy.AddMessage(message)
        mylog.write("Processing Aborted...." + "\n")
        sys.exit("Processing Aborted..")

[jcarlson]

I've not come across this, but it would be helpful if we could see some of the code being run.

[AliciaShyu · Accepted solution]

The issue was that the grid was in a database outside of the Pro project. Once the grid was moved to Pro project, the script ran correctly in task scheduler.