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Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

WilliamMiller4 — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:49:57 GMT

Hello,

Is it possible to format print layouts/templates in Web AppBuilder or Portal? By 'format' I mean customize the legend and add a disclaimer to the bottom of the page, among other things. Or is this done somewhere else, like Arc Catalog?

Thank you.

William

Re: Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:16:35 GMT

William,

Changing a ArcGIS Servers print layout templates is not really JS API or WAB specific it is more of an ArcGIS Server thing.

Tutorial: Publishing additional services for printing—Documentation | ArcGIS for Server

Tutorial: Publishing additional services for printing—Documentation (10.3 and 10.3.1) | ArcGIS for Server

Home | Esri Video

http://support.esri.com/technical-article/000012389

Re: Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

WilliamMiller4 — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:53:45 GMT

Thanks Robert.

I didn't think it had anything to do with WAB, but I was asked to look into changing the print layout formats, and I've been working primarily with WAB and a little with Portal.

William

Re: Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:15:17 GMT

William,

OK the links I provided will get you going then.

Re: Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

AmyRoust — Thu, 04 May 2017 20:04:22 GMT

Rather than publish my own custom print templates, I just want to make some minor tweaks to the default and republish them. I went through the Publishing additional services for printing tutorial and got to step 13. I chose the option to overwrite an existing service with the plan of overwriting the service that my web maps are currently using. However, there is no service (as near as I can tell) in the group of services that I have running on my server. Is it possible to overwrite the default print service? Or do I have to make my own and redirect the web app to pull from that folder?

Re: Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 04 May 2017 20:12:06 GMT

Amy,

If you just want to make changes to the default print templates that will be used by the default print service then you just make change to the MXD(s) and then restart ArcGIS Server and the changed mxds will be used.

Re: Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

AmyRoust — Thu, 04 May 2017 21:02:07 GMT

No luck on that method, unless I'm editing the wrong MXDs. I've updated the ones in C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.4\Templates\ExportWebMapTemplates and restarted ArcGIS Server, but there's no change online. That folder is not registered in my Data Store, which makes me wonder if I'm just in the wrong place.

Re: Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

MichaelMiller2 — Thu, 04 May 2017 21:09:08 GMT

The path to the templates should be something like this.

C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\Templates\ExportWebMapTemplates

Re: Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

AmyRoust — Thu, 04 May 2017 21:39:36 GMT

OK, so I was definitely in the wrong folder! Sadly, I made the changes there, restarted ArcGIS Server, and the old layouts are still there.

Re: Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

MichaelMiller2 — Fri, 05 May 2017 13:31:11 GMT

I'm not sure, but I think you might need to re-publish that service for the changes in the MXD's to be reflected.

Re: Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

AmyRoust — Fri, 05 May 2017 13:35:55 GMT

That's what I think, too, but it's the default service that Esri provides out of the box and I don't know where it lives. I was hoping to republish it yesterday by doing an overwrite, but I can't find anything to overwrite.

Re: Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

MichaelMiller2 — Fri, 05 May 2017 13:53:57 GMT

I believe you would re-publish the 'Export Web Map' tool , from the geoprocessing results after running the tool, as a GP service. This would be on your ArcGIS Server, not desktop.

Re: Can You Format Print Layouts/Templates in WAB or Portal?

AmyRoust — Fri, 05 May 2017 19:51:43 GMT

Finally figured it out when I went back into the widget. The default print service was going to ArcGIS Online, not the print service on my organization's server. Once I repointed it to my server's print service, the templates appeared!