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Esri / ArcREST

python package for REST API (AGS, AGOL, webmap JSON, etc..)
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Creating Symbols for Arcmap? #203

Closed DShokes closed 8 years ago

DShokes commented 8 years ago

Is it possible to built renderers and symbols for use in ArcMap? Perhaps by creating a temporary layer file that uses a renderer built with arcrest? I know it's not possible to create or manipulate symbols through arcpy alone. However, somehow ArcMap reads symbology from webmap and service json in order to create a layer. Im hoping that there is a way to alter the json before giving it to ArcMap.

achapkowski commented 8 years ago

The sort answer is no, but you may want to look at the webmap json (arcpy version) and see if you can mock something up there.

DShokes commented 8 years ago

Thanks. I read the layer function updateFromJSON. It's looks like it takes the json definition for an operatonal layer. I'll make a test script that