Latest Contributions by JeffBarrette

If you are using Python all you simply need to do is reference the text element using arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements and then reset its .text property to overwrite the dynamic tags. I'm curious about the problem of dynamic text disappearing during PDF export.  What issue and what help topic addresses it? Jeff ... View more

You could use string concatenation. a = "2013AWS_HOps_Map_UTM16_" b = "200" c = "_00.pdf" fileName = "{0}{1}{2}".format(a,b,c) print fileName Jeff ... View more

Not that I'm aware.  Arcpy.mapping has a function called ExportToPDF that can generate geo PDFs. http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/#/ExportToPDF/00s300000027000000/ Jeff ... View more

Fun question!  The solution really depends on the general shape of your index features.  It also depends on the way that you want to number the features.  I'm assuming starting NW then across and downward to SE. If your features are rectangular then you could perhaps use GridIndexFeatures to generate a grid with page numbers, convert that to a point FC and overlay/calc fields into your original FC. But if your features are not uniform, it gets more interesting.  Here is what I did. Convert index FC into a raster based on OID.  Make sure your cell size is appropriate so there is a grid value for every OID (otherwise you'll need to test for that).  I convert to raster because when you process a raster you work with the upper left cell, move across, then down, etc.  Next I convert the raster into a numpy array (a list of a list of cell values in each row of the raster).  I build a unique list of OID values from the array.  They are built in the direction mentioned above and only the first occurance is added to the unique list.  I place each of those values into a dictionary along with a corresponding page number for every OID  value.  Then I simply iterate through each feature in the original index FC, gets its OID, then set a new field called "page number" based on the page number for that OID. Here is the code: import arcpy myArray = arcpy.RasterToNumPyArray(r"C:\Temp\test_fGDB.gdb\testraster")  mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("current")  pageNumber = 1 myUniqueList = [] myDictionary = {}  for eachArray in myArray:   for value in eachArray:     if value not in myUniqueList:       myUniqueList.append(value)       myDictionary[value] = pageNumber       pageNumber = pageNumber + 1  lyr = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd)[0] cur = arcpy.UpdateCursor(lyr)  for row in cur:   value = row.getValue("OBJECTID")   row.setValue("PageNumber", myDictionary[value])   cur.updateRow(row)  del cur I hope the explaination is clearer than mud. Jeff ... View more

I just tested this.  The above post is close.  You need to include the table name. print ddp.pageRow.getValue("STATES.STATE_NAME") Jeff ... View more

This is not a bug.  This type of command only works when added to the appropriate context menu.  If you drag this command onto a toolbar, there is no layer context.  I.e., how would the command know for what layer you want to build the feature selection for? If you tried dragging this command onto the feature layer context menu (where it already resides) it would work. Sorry, Jeff ... View more