topic Re: Editing - Auto populate custom fields in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Editing - Auto populate custom fields

RichardMoussopo — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 07:17:21 GMT

I am trying to auto populate the custom fields in the editor but no luck.

here is what I thought would work by assigning the value to the textBox but nothing...

   
var someValue = "My value";
var myTextBox = new dijit.form.TextBox({
        id: "firstname",
        value: someValue 
       
          });
          
          var txtEmail = new dijit.form.TextBox({
        id: "email",
        value: "my email here" 
       
          });
       
        var layerInfos = [{
          'featureLayer':featureLayer,
          'showAttachments':false,
          'showDeleteButton':true,
          'fieldInfos':[
            {'fieldName':'name','label':'Name','customField': myTextBox},
            {'fieldName':'email','label':'Email','customField': txtEmail}
          ]
        }];

Re: Editing - Auto populate custom fields

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 04:17:06 GMT

Richard,

Have you tried to set the value after you create the textbox?

myTextBox.set('value', 'somevalue');

Re: Editing - Auto populate custom fields

RichardMoussopo — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 04:34:13 GMT

Hi Robert,

yes I did try that still no luck. the image bellow shows the fields that need to be auto filled.

Re: Editing - Auto populate custom fields

KellyHutchins — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:43:18 GMT

If you want to set default values for new features you can do this using the feature layer's before-apply-edits event. If you set the default values there they will appear when the popup attribute window displays for new features. Here's an example:

requestLayer.on("before-apply-edits", function(g){

var features = g.adds;

for(i = 0; i < features.length; i++){

var f = features;

f.attributes.name = "Jane Doe";

}

});

Re: Editing - Auto populate custom fields

RichardMoussopo — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 14:21:38 GMT

Thank you Kelly,

you saved my day !

Re: Editing - Auto populate custom fields

LindaDunklee — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:06:50 GMT

I've been successful in modifying this code to update fields based on edited fields - however, when you change the driving field after the initial input, it does not update the dependent fields. I believe this has something to do with the "before-apply-edits" but haven't been able to get anything else to work. Kelly, do you have anything that would allow autopopulation that dynamically?

Thanks!