Latest Contributions by JeffBarrette

Timothy,  thanks for posting this question.  I'm on the arcpy.mp and Layout teams and your inquiry forced me to look into a couple of things.  First, my initial thoughts would be to automate with Python without using a MapSeries but picture attachments on a layout are only available with a map series.  So you would need a map series simply to iterate through your point locations - so you can iterate through your pictures for each point location.  The layout team is looking the possibility of making attachments available without a map series enabled. Second - arcpy.mp does NOT allow you to change the attachment photo.  Picture.sourceImage returns the filter string but changing it an applying it back does not update the layout.  This is a bug and we will fix it.  A work-around for now is to use Python CIM access instead of the managed API for setting sourceImage. p = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject('current') lyt = p.listLayouts()[0] lyt_cim = lyt.getDefinition('V2') for elm in lyt_cim.elements: if elm.name == "Picture": pic.graphic.sourceURL = '<dyn filter="12"/>' lyt.setDefinition(lyt_cim) Finally, you are on the right track and this logic will require python automation.  Take a look at the following sample.  It is very similar to your scenario but rather than there being 0-many pages or 0-many pictures on a page, it deals with the idea of there needed to be 0-many inset maps per layout.  This application persists all the settings in a database table and simply recreates each layout on demand. https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=82b99b5593e54e57b740e3898fb14c5f I hope this helps! Jeff - arcpy.mp and Layout teams ... View more

Jeremy, have you tried Element.DoesFitFrame? string text = "Some Text String that is really long and is forced to wrap to other lines so that we can see the effects. Some Text String that is really long and is forced to wrap to other lines so that we can see the effects." as String; GraphicElement recTxtElm = LayoutElementFactory.Instance.CreateRectangleParagraphGraphicElement(layout, env, text, sym); recTxtElm.SetName("New Rectangle Text"); TextElement txtElm = recTxtElm as TextElement; while (!txtElm.DoesFitFrame) { var txtProp = txtElm.TextProperties; txtProp.FontSize = txtProp.FontSize - 1; txtElm.SetTextProperties(txtProp); System.Windows.MessageBox.Show(txtProp.FontSize.ToString()); }; ... View more

In arcpy.mapping (ArcMap) we had a Legend.isOverFlowing property.  We have plans to add this to Pro as well.  Hopefully in 2.9 or the next release. Jeff - arcpy.mp and Layout Teams ... View more

This is going to be addressed in the 2.8.2 patch.   Jeff - arcpy.mp and Layout teams ... View more