A pre-incident plan book is a valuable resource for fire and law enforcement professionals who are responding to an incident. It contains a map page for each pre-incident plan with information critical to first responders. Using Data Driven Pages, the pre-incident plans can be exported individually or as a complete book for a district or community.

Configure Data Driven Pages

To configure Data Driven Pages for pre-incident plans, complete the following steps:

1. Click the Data Driven Pages Setup button on the Data Driven Pages toolbar.
2. Click the Definition tab, do the following:
   1. Check the Enable Data Driven Pages check box.
   2. Set Layer > Building Plan.
   3. Set Name Field > Plan Name.
   4. Set Sort Field > Plan Name.
3. Click the Extent tab, do the following:
   1. Choose Best Fit.
   2. Type 100% to set the Margin Size.
   3. Type 110% to set the Round Scale to Nearest.
4. Click OK.
5. Click the Layout View button.

Once Data Driven Pages is set up, you can navigate the map book pages by map sheet name or page number.

Export the map pages

To export the map pages into a pre-incident plan book, complete the following steps:

1. Click Export Map on the File menu and set Save as type to PDF.
2. Type a name for the map pages and save it to the Application\Output folder.
3. On the Export Map window, click Options.
4. On the General tab, for Resolution, type 300.
5. On the Pages tab, click All to export all the map pages.
6. Set Export Pages As to Single PDF file to export all the map pages into a single PDF document.
7. Click Save.