Is there a way to ADD a jpeg to an mxd when there is not an existing jpeg being replaced?

[petegillard]

we have a custom north arrow that is stored as a jpeg. trying to add it to an mxd. I noticed the height/width and xy placement options, but no way to add it to an existing map.?

Thanks,

Pete

[DanPatterson_Retired · Accepted solution]

arcpy.mapping constants Listlayoutelements refers to 'existing' elements and the mapsurroundelement only has read/write properties for some aspects... creating in the void doesn't appear to be one of them

[LukeWebb]

You cannot add elements using Arcpy.Mapping

Maybe you could solve the issue the 'other way round', update a template, and then use arcpy to pull in the datasets from the existing mxds.

[petegillard]

O.K. Thanks to both for the responses