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How to set scale for data Driven Pages?
to open the Set Up Data Driven Pages window, and select the index layer for the pages. On the Extent tab, select the Data Driven Scale option. From the drop-down menu, select Scale, and click OK.
How are map extents defined when using data Driven Pages?
The map extent of the main data frame changes for each page in the Data Driven Pages series. These map extents are driven by the spatial extent of features within the index layer. This drop-down menu displays a list of data frames in the current map document.
What are data Driven Pages in ArcMap?
Data Driven Pages allow you to quickly and easily create a series of layout pages from a single map document. A feature layer, or index layer, divides the map into sections based on each index feature in the layer and generates one page per index feature. Data Driven Pages can be based on a regular grid of polygons.
How do I create a data driven page?
Click OK and ArcMap will create all of your data driven pages. Now data driven pages are set up. On the Data Driven Pages toolbar, the forward and back buttons can be used to iterate through the parcels to view the different pages.
How is page name defined in data driven pages?
As Data Driven Pages iterates through the features in the index layer and each page is defined, the attribute value for the chosen name field is used as the page name. The page name can be displayed on the Data Driven Pages toolbar. This can also drive a dynamic text element in the layout.
How to insert dynamic text in data driven pages?
Dynamic text has tags to automatically identify document properties such as the pathname and the time the .mxd was saved. In fact, any attribute for features in the index layer can be used for dynamic text and updated automatically with Data Driven Pages. To insert dynamic text, from the top menu, click Insert, and then click Dynamic Text.
How to enable or disable data driven pages?
Click the Data Driven Pages Setup button . Check the Enable Data Driven Pages check box. Click the Data Frame arrow and choose the detail data frame. By default, the active data frame is chosen. Make sure this is the data frame you want to use.