topic Re: Formatting number field for GP Service in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

Formatting number field for GP Service

AllenScully — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:56:14 GMT

We have a GP service where the last step is to add a field (DOUBLE, holds 2 decimal places) - and does a field calculation. It's going from feet to miles - we only want to display 2 decimal places - so .34 miles instead of .34125823672... for example.

All works correctly running the tool in ArcMap - the output dataset is an in_memory feature layer, with the correct properties in the calculated miles field.

Using the tool through a GP Widget in WAB (Portal, 10.6) - the field in question displays all of the decimal places - not respecting what was set in the script.

Any way to enforce this in the Widget config (nothing obvious I could see) or tool config in arcmap?

Thanks -

Allen

Re: Formatting number field for GP Service

JakeSkinner — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 23:51:33 GMT

Hi Allen,

Can you update the Field Calculation and use Python to round the calculation (i.e. round(val, 2)) to two decimal values?

Re: Formatting number field for GP Service

AllenScully — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:44:00 GMT

Excellent - many thanks Jake, that does the trick.

Still curious why it displayed correctly in ArcMap running the tool, but differently when run as a GP Service, since the properties of the field is explicitly set to be 2 decimal places.

Custom GP services are fickle things.

Allen