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It is a reality that developers can use Visual Studio 2017 to interactively debug the script tools in ArcGIS Pro V2.2.0.  This is clearly read and shown in the help document and the following video: Debug Python code—ArcPy Get Started | ArcGIS Desktop  ArcGIS Pro and Python - YouTube  I spent many hours trying to make the Visual Studio 2017 debugger (Community Version) working with ArcGIS Pro without much success.  After I attached the debugger to the ArcGIS Pro process, I run the tool, then I 'll see the following error: Source Not Available and Frame not in module: If I Enable address-level debugging--> Show disassembly if source is not available in the Debug-->Options I'll the following error. To be honest, I don't think this setting make any sense for Python any way. No disassembly available. (not surprised) The way I set up the test: 1.Create a new python project in VS 2017. 2.Set the Python Environment to ArcGIS Pro env: C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3 3.Put something testing code in the .py file in the project: aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("C:\RIASP II\RDA_Pro\RDA_Pro.aprx") m=aprx.listMaps("Current Work Space")[0] for lyr in m.listLayers():       if lyr.name=="Events":               print(lyr.name) 4. create a script tool in ArcGIS Pro and point the script to the py file mentioned in step 3. 5. In VS 2017, Debug --> Attach to Process --> Attach to : Python Code --> ArcGIS Pro 6. Run the tool created in step 4 in ArcGIS Pro If I check the Solution Property in VS 2017,  I found my source code paths are automatically put into Do not look for these source files!!!   I tried to set the Directories containing source code in the above property window and empty the Do not look for these source files box before the debug, but, after the debug attempt my source code path will be put back in the Do not look for these source files.  Have anyone else tried this and actually made it working?  ESRI help document has not been very helpful to me so far..., Microsoft help document ? you know... At least, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel: A rich debug experience in an IDE for script tools built for ArcGIS Pro is coming... Any advice or suggestions will be highly appreciated. ... View more

add_layer (item, options=None) Adds the specified layer or item to the map widget. Argument Description item Required object. You can specify Item objects, Layer objects such as FeatureLayer, ImageryLayer, MapImageLayer etc., FeatureSet and FeatureCollection objects. options Optional dict. Specify visualization options such as renderer info, opacity, definition expressions. See example below It sounds great I can set the renderer on the fly for the layer that is going to be displayed in the map widget. but I wasted hours trying with no success. it always display the default renderer or the renderer defined in ArcGIS Online(if it's a existing layer). There is no consistent document for the accepting options. ALL you I can do was GUESSING... and there were no examples in place although it says "See example below" There are some examples for the smart mapping  Smart Mapping | ArcGIS for Developers  But it only mentions some renderer such as "ClassedColorRenderer", "ClassedSizeRenderer" and "HeatmapRenderer", these are useless to me, I need unique symbols for each feature , which should be the very basic renderer, but I sadly can't figure it out.  Where is the full list of the accepting smart mapping renderers and document for other options for this function? I've tried to piece together information using the following help document, but just not enough... Renderer objects—Common Data Types | ArcGIS for Developers  esri/renderers/smartMapping | API Reference | ArcGIS API for JavaScript 3.24  Generate Renderer (Feature Service)—ArcGIS REST API: Services Directory | ArcGIS for Developers  It's hard to believe such a important document is not available (or not very visible to users), given visualizing data is absolutely an essential part of the whole analysis. Another thing annoys me in the  Smart Mapping | ArcGIS for Developers : To learn more about this exciting capability visit the help page and this blog article. Here is a detailed help on various ways you can symbolize your data. All these 3 links lead the developers to ArcGIS Online document, how can that help a developer using python?? I start wondering whether or not these links are put there by the AI algorithm which I will forgive totally because they can not understand complicated context yet. Back to the topic, Where is the document? if no such document , can ESRI please make some document? by the way, in the document, if mentioning some thing like "see example below" or "see Feature Input in documentation" (in create_buffer function description) , please do remember to put some example or document there. Thanks ... View more