Get Layout Templates Info

This tool takes a folder location where map documents (.mxd files) to be used as layout templates are located and returns the content of those layout templates formatted as JavaScript object notation (JSON).

• This tool is shipped with ArcGIS Server and is intended to be published as a geoprocessing task within a printing service. It is also used by the preconfigured PrintingTools service.

• The output of this tool is a string formatted as JSON. The string is a list of available map documents (used as layout templates) and the following information:

  • The size of the page layout
  • The size of the active data frame
  • Availability of following layout elements:
    • Legend element
    • Title text element
    • Copyright text element
    • Author text element
    • Custom text elements and their names and existing values

  The sizes are returned in the unit that is saved with the map document.

  A sample output JSON

  [{ "layoutTemplate": "A4 Landscape", //name of the layout "pageSize": [29.7, 21], //page size "activeDataFrameSize": [27.75, 15.91], //size of the active data frame "layoutOptions": { "hasAuthorText": true, //is the predefined AuthorText available "hasCopyrightText": true, //is the predefined CopyrightText available "hasTitleText": true, //is the predefined TitleText available "hasLegend": true, //is legend element available "customTextElements": [] } }, { "layoutTemplate": "MyTemplatesWithCustomTextElements", "pageSize": [11, 8.5], "activeDataFrameSize": [6.65, 7.34], "layoutOptions": { "hasAuthorText": false, "hasCopyrightText": true, "hasTitleText": true, "hasLegend": true, "customTextElements": [ //available list of custom text elements { "CityName": "Redlands" }, { "MapCenterCoordinates": "" }, { "SelectedParcelID": ""} ] } }]

• The tool should use the same folder location that is used by the associated Export Web Map tool.

• For more information, see Printing in web applications in the ArcGIS Server help.

The following script returns a list of metadata for each layout from all MXDs in a folder.

arcpy.GetLayoutTemplatesInfo_server(r'C:\Data\MyLayouts')
                    

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