Latest Contributions by TomBole

Hi Anthony,  I'm not aware of any issues that would result in corrupt PDFs other than the TIFF issue Nicholas referenced. Can you contact Esri Support? They are better equipped to handle troubleshooting steps and gather bug data. They can be contacted at https://support.esri.com/en/contact-tech-support. Thanks,  Tom ... View more

Andrew,  Yes, the story can be a bit confusing, but it is important to understand that these two dynamic text elements are not exactly the same. The Map Series (DDP) Attribute element is legacy functionality from ArcMap (Data Driven Pages) and only works with the index layer of a map series. Table Attribute dynamic text, however, can work with any table in the map and does not have to be part of a map series. Although, as you state, the Map Series (DDP) Attribute is limited when compared to Table Attribute dynamic text, this "simple" text element satisfies many user requirements. Many users like the simplicity of this option - they just want to add an attribute value from the index layer without any changes.  You're certainly welcome to add a suggestion to ArcGIS Ideas if you have suggestions on how this experience can be improved. Thanks for the feedback,  Tom ... View more

Hi Andrew,  I'm not sure exactly what your workflow is, but you mention an attribute table.  If you are grabbing information from a table you may want to consider using Table dynamic text - see Add and modify dynamic text—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation (about a third of the way down the topic is Table dynamic text).  With Arcade - ArcGIS Arcade | ArcGIS for Developers - you can further customize your text. For example, I have a table of world countries that has fields for both country name and continent and I want a dynamic text element that displays the country's name along with which continent the country is in formatted like "X is in Y". I can use a Table dynamic text element ("Table Attribute" from the "Dynamic Text" gallery on the ribbon provides access to your attribute) and use an Arcade expression to customize the text. I'm far from being an Arcade expert, but there is lot you can do. Table dynamic text ("Table Attribute") also works with map series. Inserting format tags within the dynamic element is not supported. You can place formatting tags around the dynamic tag. For example, here is a dynamic text element for the date the project was saved. You see static text - "Date Saved:" and a dynamic tag - "dateSaved". If I want the date to be bold I can add formatting tags around the dynamic tag. Here's how the element looks in Text View. The dynamic part of the element is prefaced with "< dyn type=". Within this dynamic tag you see its parts - <dyn type="project" property="dateSaved" format="short|short"/>. This particular dynamic text element provides a format option.  This allows me an option to show only the date. There is a limit to what you can do within a dynamic text tag. For more information on this, please see - Dynamic text tags—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation  Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more

Hi John,  With Pro 2.6 you can use can use the bookmarks directly to create a map series - Introduction to a bookmark map series—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation . If you're map series doesn't need data to drive dynamic text or set page queries for other layers in the map, Bookmark Map Series may be an option for you. Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more

Hi Michelle,  Sorry you are still running into issues.  I'm not running into export issues testing against the Map Services I have access to and have confirmed that BUG-000131306 has been fixed with the test service provided in the bug.  I also tried with the following Map Service (https://landscape1.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/USA_Roads/MapServer).  I'm able to open the PDF result without error.  Here is my layout (using version 2.6): The properties for the legend item (Map Service Sublayer "All roads") - removing the label and description and leaving only the label for the Group layer/Map Service Layer: Here is the PDF output: Here is the JPG output: I did notice an issue where the legend on the layout page would "disappear" sometimes when selecting or unselecting the element. This bad state did not affect the export result (PDF or JPG). The output displayed the legend correctly.  I'm currently investigating this "bad" state issue. Perhaps there is something specific with the Map Service you are using?  IS this a public service that I might have access to? Tom ... View more

Hi Michelle,  Thanks for pinging me with the bug number.  I think this issue has been resolved (with a different bug) in version 2.6.  I'll confirm this, and if it is indeed the case, close out BUG-000131306. Thanks,  Tom ... View more

Hi Mark,  Thanks for the screenshots - they really help. The anchor point should not change when you update the text string. I'm able to reproduce this issue using version 2.5.2.  However, I cannot reproduce this using version 2.6.  ArcGIS Pro 2.6 includes a number of changes made to layout text elements, not to mention the introduction of map graphics (which include graphic text). It is likely that this bug was resolved with this work. Tom ... View more

Hi Grace,  Here are some links that you may find helpful" What is dynamic text?—Layouts | Documentation  Add dynamic text—Layouts | Documentation  Use dynamic text with map series—Layouts | Documentation  Modify dynamic text—Layouts | Documentation  Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more

Hi David,  There is no "out-of-the-box" functionality that edits the features of Map Series index layers based on the current extent. With ArcGIS Pro 2.6 you can create a Map Series based on spatial bookmarks. You can interactively update the extent of a bookmark for a Map Series as much as you would update a bookmark in a Map View. This should simplify some Map Series scenarios.  Tom ... View more

Pete, here is a link to the Python help regarding script tools (step 4) - What is a script tool?—Geoprocessing and Python | Documentation  ... View more

Even if the samples don't do exactly what you want they do provide good insight on how you can use Python. Good luck, Pete.  ... View more

Here's a sample of how the code might look: p = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject('current') lyt = p.listLayouts('Layout')[0] txt = lyt.listElements('TEXT_ELEMENT','Text')[0] txt.text = p.filePath.split(':')[1] ... View more

Hi Pete,  There is nothing "out-of-the-box" that I'm aware of that you can use to parse dynamic text. However, I believe you can use ArcPy.mp to do this. I'm in no way an expert in Python, but hopefully the following can at least get you started.  1. Get the path from the project See: ArcGISProject—ArcPy | Documentation  2. Parse the string See: How to split a dos path into its components in Python - Stack Overflow  3. Pass it into a text element on the layout See: TextElement—ArcPy | Documentation  4. Create GP script with this code to be reused with other documents since this script would need to be run for each individual document and anytime the documents was moved to a different file location.   Here's a link to a series of ArcPy samples for both ArcMap (arcpy.mapping) and ArcGIS Pro (arcpy.mp) that may is a good resource - https://www.arcgis.com/home/group.html?sortField=modified&sortOrder=desc&id=398a345905c845e38229c15f5353d4e9&view=list#content. Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more

Hi Brian,  I'm not aware of an issue like this.  Can you contact Esri Support? They are better equipped to handle troubleshooting steps and gather bug data. They can be contacted at https://support.esri.com/en/contact-tech-support. Thanks,  Tom ... View more

Hello All,  An issue with incorrect export results was discovered when the last layer in the map has layer transparency (this includes polygons with no fill) - see BUG-000128447 (The export layout does not support the clipping option into the map series if transparency is applied to the last layers in ArcGIS Pro).  Please see GeoNet post - ArcGIS Pro 2.4: Issues with exporting map series (clipped to index feature) to PDF for more details. This bug has been resolved in version 2.6. This is one scenario that we know, and more importantly, can reproduce, where clipping is not working as expected.  If you feel your scenario is different please contact technical support. They are better equipped to handle troubleshooting steps and gather bug data. They can be contacted at https://support.esri.com/en/contact-tech-support. Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more