topic Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Printing with Custom Text Elements

JustinGreco — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:16:13 GMT

Are custom text elements not supported in the JavaScript API yet when using the 10.1 print service? I do not see it as a property for layoutOptions for the PrintTemplate class.

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

JustinGreco — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:36:04 GMT

The workaround was to create a Python script and add a string parameter for the text for the custom text element. Then in JS I passed the text to the extraParameters property of the PrintParameters class. Interesting that customTextElements is a property in the Flex and Silverlight APIs, but not JavaScript.

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

KevinGooss — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:47:27 GMT

Ugh. I just wasted 3 hours trying to figure this out.
Why have something exposed by the REST api then not support it in the js api?
This makes the task of exposing a simple extra text element much more complex.
So your saying that now i have to generate a custom python script just to handle this.
that stinks. but thanks for the info.

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

KevinGooss — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:48:35 GMT

maybe this will be fixed in service pack 1?
Pretty please...

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

KevinGooss — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:50:14 GMT

Also, what if i want to pass in, say, 5 additional fields. Would those all be extra params in the python or would i have to parse them in with a delimiter and jam them into a single field? crud.

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

KevinGooss — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:20:19 GMT

Does anyone know if there is a way i can jack the api-generated request before it goes over the wire so i can inject these missing elements myself? Is there an event that provides access to the generated request after the printTask.execute method is called?

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

KevinGooss — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:23:48 GMT

Or, even better, is there a way to generate the web_map_as_json string client-side without shipping it off?

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

AdrianMarsden — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:59:20 GMT

bump.
Before I start to write my Print routine for my ArcIMS replacement internal thingie, is there any change in this? I need to be able to

Add title

Add Comments

Be to specific Scale - and to print at that scale

Add Legend

Add Scale Bar

Add North Arrow

Have multiple page templates

The Print Widget is close to doing this, but it seems not all the way there.

The more advanced print tools (like tutorials here) seem overly complex and take nearly a minute to produce. My ArcIMS users will see that as a step backwards however much I tell them that the PDFs are much better quality.

So do I embark on the Print Widget, and modifying it as described above, or wait to see if improvements are on the way with 3.3?

Cheers

ACM

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

KevinGooss — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:02:50 GMT

Hopefully js api 3.3 is on the way any day now and esri has heard our pleas to include the custom text elements.

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

JianHuang — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:26:41 GMT

3.3 will add support for customTextElements in PrintTask.
Thanks.

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

MichaelVolz — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:09:20 GMT

Are there any ESRI samples that show how to use Custom Text Elements to print out information of a selected record on the custom print template?

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

Enguerranddes_Vaux — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 14:13:44 GMT

in templates parameter you can do it :

{
        label: "PDF A4",
  format: "PDF",
  layout: "myLayout",
  layoutOptions: {
           legendLayers:[legendLayer],
   customTextElements : [
    {myTest: "My text !"}
       ]
   },
   exportOptions: {
        dpi: 96
     }
  }

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

MichaelVolz — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:23:58 GMT

Enguerrand:

In order to get your code to work, would I need to have dynamic text in my PDF A4 map template that had the name myTest so the web app would recognize the dynamic text I am passing from the Javascript app to the selected map template of the custom print service?

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

Enguerranddes_Vaux — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:32:29 GMT

Yes. The Element Name will make the link. ( sorry for my english, i'm french)

[ATTACH=CONFIG]34331[/ATTACH]

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

MichaelVolz — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:48:02 GMT

Enguerrand:

Your code above is slightly different from an ESRI sample that seems to have been created for v10.1.

The ESRI sample is shown below:
{
            name: "Letter ANSI A Portrait",
            label: "Portrait (Image)",
            format: "jpg",
            options: {
              legendLayers: [],
              scaleBarUnit: "Miles",
              titleText: printTitle + ", Portrait JPG"
            }

Has the syntax for options changed between 10.1 and 10.2 where layoutOptions are now specified just as options? It seems to me that both options and layoutOptions are referring to the same objects.

Re: Printing with Custom Text Elements

Enguerranddes_Vaux — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:53:58 GMT

i have used this sample :
https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/jssamples/widget_print_esri_request.html

And the API says that is layoutOptions :
https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/jsapi/printtemplate-amd.html#layoutoptions