Chapter 2. Managing Map Documents and Layers

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Referencing the current map document
• Referencing map documents on a disk
• Getting a list of layers in a map document
• Restricting the list of layers
• Zooming in to selected features
• Changing the map extent
• Adding layers to a map document
• Inserting layers into a map document
• Updating layer symbology
• Updating layer properties
• Working with time-enabled layers in a data frame