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Does anyone have experience in creating reports from your ArcGIS data (geodatabase, map exports) using a python reporting engine? In my current project, we are using Jasper Reports in the following way: A custom geoprocessing tool creates a intermediate XML file containing the data from the Oracle SDE and an exported map image as encoded byte array. This file and a template from iReport is used to generate a PDF file by Jasper Reports.

I am looking for a different solution using a report engine based on python (Jasper is based on Java), I can imagine that a python approach can be better integrated in ArcGIS.

Did anyone tried this before?

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  • What type of text data is in your report (attribute table based)? Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 11:35
  • Yes, attribute tables of feature classes in a geodatabase for example. But it should not be restricted to that kind of data. A "screenshot" of the map should also be exported, by arcmap or may be by a map service. Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 12:22
  • How do I want to generate the similar report on a web based application? Commented Apr 28, 2015 at 16:51
  • That would be another question. JasperReports can be used for reporting in a web based application, either by writing a Java Servlet or using the server of JasperSoft. Commented Apr 30, 2015 at 6:19

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At the 2012 ESRI User conference, they demonstrated building custom PDF pages and reports using the open-souce ReportLab toolkit.

Check out the Conference proceedings and look at the Technical Workshops for Python Map Automation. One of them makes a reference to this sample script.

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There is a new development in 10.1 for Python access in reporting: ExportReport.

Essentially you create a report and save the layout as a report layout file (.rlf). When you call ExportReport from arcpy you access the layout file.

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  • In case anyone is looking at this answer with web applications in mind, you should be aware that: the ExportReport function has a dependency on the ArcMap installation. Therefore, ExportReport can only be executed on machines that have ArcMap installed. ExportReport will not run using stand-alone installations of ArcGIS Engine or ArcGIS for Server. Moreover, ExportReport will not work as a Geoprocessing Service. Source: desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/analyze/arcpy-mapping/… Commented Mar 6, 2017 at 22:08

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