Latest Contributions by JeffBarrette

Did you try the steps in the following post: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/1544-Beta-10-trouble-importing-arcpy-or-arcgisscripting-in-IDLE Jeff ... View more

I think I found the issue.  The root WMS service layer does not support "ServiceProperties", it is only the sub layers.  Individual sub layers can't be removed - that is also the case in the UI. For example, you have: Europe BGR Geology by Age (Geochronologic)  - as the root layer - this does not support ServiceProperties but it CAN be removed. Europe BGR 5M Geological Units - Offshore - this is a sub layer under the layer above.  This does support ServiceProperties but CAN NOT be removed (just like in the UI). One possible workaround is that you identify the sub-layers but remove the parent.  This can be done by using the LYR.longName property which would be: Europe BGR Geology by Age (Geochronologic)\Europe BGR 5M Geological Units - Offshore Find the layer with the root name("Europe BGR Geology by Age (Geochronologic)") and remove that layer. I hope this helps.  In the meantime, I'll mark this as a bug and hopefully get it fixed in the next service pack. Jeff ... View more

This is not possible with arcpy.mapping.  You would need to author the group structure ahead of time.  You could then use arcpy.mapping.AddLayer and arcpy.mapping.AddLayerToGroup to insert layers into your mxd. Jeff ... View more

No there is not.  This is a property that would need to be authored in the map document or a layer file ahead of time. If that is not possible, we'd like to learn more about your scenario for possible consideration to future releases. Jeff ... View more

Note - the best, most conistent way to get extent is if you are saving your map document in Layout View.  If your map document is in Data View, your extent may change based on the resizing of application windows. Same applies to getting and setting scale. Jeff ... View more

Its all in the help link I provided.  The sample does not exercise all parameters but here they are.  The help explains each one. Syntax ExportToTIFF (map_document, out_tiff, {data_frame}, {df_export_width}, {df_export_height}, {resolution}, {world_file}, {color_mode}, {tiff_compression}, {geoTIFF_tags}) Jeff ... View more

I don't understand.  Now exporting from the UI, the original issue, is no longer the main issue?  Did the problem resolve itself? I didn't realize that you had OLE objects in your MXD.  OLE objects are only supported with the ArcMap application being open because the OLE information is embedded within the arcmap.exe.  You can run your Python scripts from the Python window using "current" but they can't be run outside of ArcGIS (when OLE objects are involved). Jeff ... View more

When the {symbology_only} property on UpdateLayer is set to False, it pulls across ALL layer properties, not just symbology. Have you tried working with the LabelClass object.  It allows you to set the expression directly. http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/LabelClass/00s30000002t000000/ Jeff ... View more

Can you tell me what the value of your description is? print lyr.description Jeff ... View more

Try arcpy.mapping.  Check out the help and samples at the following link: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/DataDrivenPages/00s300000030000000/ I made changes to Sample #1 so you can export just the data frame and I also changed it to ExportToTIFF. import arcpy mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\Project\NameOfMXD.mxd") df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Dataframe Name")[0] for pageNum in range(1, mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageCount + 1):     mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID = pageNum     print "Exporting page {0} of {1}".format(str(mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID), str(mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageCount))     arcpy.mapping.ExportToTiff(mxd, r"C:\Project\OutPut\Page" + str(pageNum) + ".tif", df) del mxd ... View more

Jiaorong, Two more questions: 1) What DPI are you exporting the pages out to?  If you reduce the DPI, does it get better? 2) As a test, could you try turning off the dem90_shade1 layer and then try? The best way for us to assess what is going on would be to get a copy of your data.  Would it be possible to get me a map package or zip file.  Please respond directly to [email protected] Thanks, Jeff ... View more

Are you looking for delete_management? http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//001700000052000000 Jeff ... View more

Jiaorong, Questions: 1) Are you running out of disk space when producing the output?  The first error message suggests that you are. 2) Are you writing to a single PDF file or a PDF file for each map page? 3) When you say it worked up to page 28, does that mean PDF files are being generated? 4) I assume you are doing this from the user interface.  Have you tried exporting to PDF via arcpy.mapping?  If you are having memory issues, then running an arcpy.mapping script outside of ArcMap may help.  If you are running out of disk space, then this won't help at all. The following script will export all your pages into a single PDF: mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\temp\sample[1].mxd") ddp = mxd.dataDrivenPages ddp.exportToPDF(r"C:\temp\output.pdf") The following script will export each page to a separate PDF (index # gets appended to the end of each file name: mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"current") ddp = mxd.dataDrivenPages ddp.exportToPDF(r"C:\temp\out.pdf", multiple_files="PDF_MULTIPLE_FILES_PAGE_INDEX") Jeff ... View more

Is it possible that your layer description is a number?  Could you try changing line 39 to something like: outFile.write("\t\t\t Description: " + str(lyr.description) + "\n") Jeff ... View more

My mistake.  I included the [0] accidentally.  Let me try again: myLayerObj = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd, "filter")[0] This returns a layer object myLayerListObj = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd, "filter") This returns a Python list object.  If you want to get to items in the list you need to either use and index number or a for loop.  If your MXD is designed with all layers having unique names, then if you use the correct filter, you will only have one item in your list and you can use [0] to extract it. There is a new arcpy.mapping tutorial that covers this in much better detail. http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Getting_started_with_arcpy_mapping_tutorial/00s30000006w000000/ Jeff ... View more