Latest Contributions by ChrisHolmes

Well, that might be a work around. Thanks for the idea! Sent from my iPhone ... View more

So, while I was able to get this working and save the annotation to a file geodatabase. The "Convert Labels to Annotation" form in the manual arcMap process to give you the ability to save the annotation in the existing mxd file. I was not able to find a way to accomplish that with arcpy. Is that not possible? Thanks all! ... View more

Here's the solution I have to date. It is in the context of a model at this point. I plan to at some point move it into a single script tool. Script for CreatePolygonE (found the base code for this on geonet from Jake Skinner - Thanks Jake): import arcpy locno = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) year = locno[3:7] arcpy.AddMessage('locno: ' + locno) workspace = "O:/plan/luam/1p2007/" + year + "/" + locno + "/data_for_item.gdb" #|data" arcpy.env.workspace = workspace mxd = "O:/plan/luam/1p2007/" + year + "/" + locno + "/" + locno + "-existing_proposed.mxd" mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(mxd) dataframe = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "*")[0] frameExtent = dataframe.extent XMAX = frameExtent.XMax XMIN = frameExtent.XMin YMAX = frameExtent.YMax YMIN = frameExtent.YMin pnt1 = arcpy.Point(XMIN, YMIN) pnt2 = arcpy.Point(XMIN, YMAX) pnt3 = arcpy.Point(XMAX, YMAX) pnt4 = arcpy.Point(XMAX, YMIN) array = arcpy.Array() array.add(pnt1) array.add(pnt2) array.add(pnt3) array.add(pnt4) array.add(pnt1) polygon = arcpy.Polygon(array) arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(polygon, "Polygon_Extent") result = True arcpy.SetParameterAsText(1, result)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Script for CreateAnnotation: import arcpy locno = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) year = locno[3:7] arcpy.AddMessage('locno: ' + locno) mxd = "O:/plan/luam/1p2007/" + year + "/" + locno + "/" + locno + "-existing_proposed.mxd" Polygon_Extent = "O:/plan/luam/1p2007/" + year + "/" + locno + "/data_for_item.gdb/Polygon_Extent" outGdb = "O:/plan/luam/1p2007/" + year + "/" + locno + "/data_for_item.gdb" GroupAnno = "GroupAnno" # Process: Tiled Labels To Annotation arcpy.TiledLabelsToAnnotation_cartography(mxd, "Layers", Polygon_Extent, outGdb,         GroupAnno, "Anno", "4000", "", "", "", "", "STANDARD", "GENERATE_UNPLACED_ANNOTATION") result = True arcpy.SetParameterAsText(1, result)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ ... View more

Thanks for the reminder James. Yes, I’m just ironing out a few bugs and will then post the solution. ... View more

Excellent. Thanks Curtis. Yes, was definitely thinking to do my development local then move to the network. Cheers! Sent from my iPhone ... View more

Thanks. I will look into that! ... View more

Thanks Micah and Rebecca. I will explore the information both of you have provided to me. Very much appreciated! Chris ... View more

Hi Rebecca, The input would be gathered at the start of the program. I have not started working on this yet, just trying to figure out if it's doable. What I'm looking for is to be able to have something like this appear after selecting the menuitem off of the toolbar where the user would enter the address into the one field and select a LuCode from the dropdown: Then click "Ok" and the code would run. My hunch is that it's not doable, just hope I'm wrong on that. Thanks ... View more

I figured it out. I needed to add arcpy.RefreshTOC(). duh. I'll give the correct answer to Rebecca as she got me onto the path of getting this working. Funny that I had previously looked at that link just didn't see the item about the feature datasets. Thanks also for your suggestions Mitch. Here is the finished working script: import arcpy mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") for lyr in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd):     if lyr.name == 'roads':         lyr.replaceDataSource(r"X:\GIS\geo_databases\labelling_features.gdb","FILEGDB_WORKSPACE","roads")     if lyr.name == 'railways':         lyr.replaceDataSource('X:/GIS/geo_databases/labelling_features.gdb','FILEGDB_WORKSPACE','railways')     elif lyr.name == 'rivers':         lyr.replaceDataSource('X:/GIS/geo_databases/labelling_features.gdb','FILEGDB_WORKSPACE','rivers')     elif lyr.name == 'lakes':         lyr.replaceDataSource('X:/GIS/geo_databases/labelling_features.gdb','FILEGDB_WORKSPACE','lakes')     elif lyr.name == 'bridge_polygons':         lyr.replaceDataSource('X:/GIS/geo_databases/planning_data.gdb','FILEGDB_WORKSPACE','bridge_polygons') arcpy.RefreshTOC() mxd.save del mxd Result = True arcpy.SetParameterAsText(0,Result)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ ... View more

In the link provided by Rebecca: http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/analyze/arcpy-mapping/updatingandfixingdatasources.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_1ACA0FBD09924B56A43CE5A5DBD18D7D I read: Do not include the names of geodatabase feature datasets in the workspace path. Feature datasets are part of the workspace. If a feature class, for example, is moved from being a stand-alone feature class into a geodatabase feature dataset, a map document will still open without the layer being broken. So I removed the reference to the feature datasets in each workspace "|data". The script works now, but it doesn't do anything. lol I'll have to recheck the parameters I'm using. ... View more