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I am creating a map book but do not want the page numbers for each map page to be on the same side (since its printed double sided), I need the page numbers to be placed on opposite sides.

I am using data driven pages. On a previous post it was mentioned to use ODD and EVEN pages per How to make Map Book with facing pages numbered near outside edge?.

However I have over 200 pages.

Is there a "creative" field calculator expression to use?

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    It'd be really helpful to see a screenshot of your attribute table. I assume you have a page number field that we could create an expression to grab the correct value.
    – ianbroad
    Apr 21, 2014 at 1:29

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The Field Calculator configuration below can be used to set values on any odd numbers in your Odd pages field (and blanks in the other rows).

In order to simulate a Data Driven Pages index for test data, I used Create Fishnet to create a polygon feature class in a file geodatabase, and then added text fields 4 characters in size called Odd and Even.

This index feature class has a numeric OID field and writes to an Odd field that is text. I will leave you to work out how to do the Even field. If you have a different numeric field specifying the page numbers (and order) just use that in place of OID.

The modulo (%) operator in Python, which is the crux of how to separate Odd from Even pages, is described here.

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Parser: Python

Pre-logic Script Code:

def Reclass(oid):
  if oid % 2 == 1:
    return str(oid)
  else:
    return ""

Odd =

Reclass(!OID!)
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    what table has an OID that corresponds to the page number? That seems to be an unstated requirement for the solution to work.
    – Llaves
    Apr 21, 2014 at 0:42
  • Where does the pre-logic code pasted?
    – slivingston49
    Apr 21, 2014 at 2:22
  • @Llaves Hopefully I have addressed your request for clarification in my revised Answer
    – PolyGeo ♦
    Apr 21, 2014 at 3:21
  • @user42720 I have added a graphic which should make this clearer
    – PolyGeo ♦
    Apr 21, 2014 at 3:22
  • PolyGeo: that did it. I'm aware that data-driven pages relies on a polygon layer to define the pages, I guess I'm not sure how in the case of something other than a regular grid the pages are ordered, presumably it's by the order of the OIDs, which let's your trick work, assuming they are consecutively numbered.
    – Llaves
    Apr 21, 2014 at 17:56

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