When you are in layout view, you all the objects on the "page" are visible on your map, objects that are outside of the page are not visible(extra text elements, legends, dataframes, etc.)Īll you would have to do is select(click) on the dataframes that are outside the page and place them where you want on the map.
Would you be needing one inset per map, multiple, or a variable number? Are we working with multiple layers for insets or singles? If you can give some more info about the project, it would probably be easier to find a good solution.
You would likely have to do alot of spot checking and editting, but at least all your MXDs would be created and feature you need there with only editting needing to be done. Depending on the functionality you are needing(say you need to do 500 junction insets for a utility map, each with a certain ID number) you could make a script where it could do all of them at once, just have your template then have it select by attribute, zoom to feature, save as a new file name, then make the next one. My end result was a script tool where I could control the various text elements and add the layers I needed and it would make the changes to the template map with multiple dataframes, save it as a new map and export to pdf.
Ted, your post was a bit confusing can they or can they not use ArcGIS? Also, what type of mapping are they needing to do, are they needing to zoom to various features of a layer, or add different layers, etc? I know for a project like this that I've done I made some template mxds, which could be accessed with python and you could add features you needed, or select the features you need and zoom to them on both the inset map(secondary dataframe(s)) and the main map(primary dataframe).
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