topic Print Widget and Custom Text Elements in ArcGIS Online Questions

Print Widget and Custom Text Elements

CaseyRagain — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:17:44 GMT

I am trying to create custom print templates for a Web Appbuilder web application in ArcGIS Online which enables a User to add more text to a layout than just the title and author. I have added elements to the mxd and named them and tried to call them using CustomTextElements, but do not know how to make the text box for the user to enter the text into appear within the print widget. I am using the Web Appbuilder in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS for Desktop 10.2.2 and ArcGIS for Server 10.2.2.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank You.

-Casey

Re: Print Widget and Custom Text Elements

RickeyFight — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:27:06 GMT

Tagging https://community.esri.com/community/gis/web-gis/web-appbuilder?sr=search&searchId=f8d74bbb-55f8-4d7f-b7b7-836235a83ca3&searchIndex=1‌

Re: Print Widget and Custom Text Elements

MichaelMiller2 — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:29:32 GMT

Check out this thread Web Printing with templates

Re: Print Widget and Custom Text Elements

CaseyRagain — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:32:29 GMT

Thank you for the link, Mike. I was able to successfully publish the ExportWebMap tool and the GetLayoutTemplate Info task in the 10.2.2 desktop/server environment.

However, I'm having a problem with my ArcGIS Online web appbuilder print widget displaying the custom text elements of the GP service I published. I think I might be having a problem with the workflow I'm using of adding the GP service from my REST services directory to the widget.

Could you please provide some insight on how to add my GPS service to my ArcGIS Online web appbuilder print widget?

Thank you!

-Casey

Re: Print Widget and Custom Text Elements

JordanBaumgardner — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:57:58 GMT

I had this issue with the JS 3.x sdk's. There was an issue with it not moving newly created features from a feature class up to the print service. I had to copy the features to a graphics layer first, then print.

transferRedlineToGraphicsLayer: function() {
require(["esri/layers/GraphicsLayer"],
function(GraphicsLayer) {
   me.mapPrintGraphicsLayer = new GraphicsLayer();
   wapp.app.map.mainmap.addLayer(me.mapPrintGraphicsLayer);
   $(wapp.app.mapLayerModule.redLineLayers).each(function(idx) {
      var curLayer = wapp.app.mapLayerModule.redLineLayers[idx];
      $(curLayer.graphics).each(function(gidx) {
         var curGraphic = curLayer.graphics[gidx];
         me.mapPrintGraphicsLayer.add(curGraphic);
      }); // for each graphic
      curLayer.visible = false;
   }); // for each layer
}); // Require
},

Re: Print Widget and Custom Text Elements

MichaelMiller2 — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:27:30 GMT

I think this might help, Publishing additional services for printing

Re: Print Widget and Custom Text Elements

CaseyRagain — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:44:08 GMT

Does the Publishing additional services for printing work for ArcGIS Online and the ArcGIS 10.2.2 desktop and server environment?

Thanks.

Re: Print Widget and Custom Text Elements

MichaelMiller2 — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 19:26:21 GMT

Good question. I guess in my mind this is a web solution and intended for web apps and AGOL.

Re: Print Widget and Custom Text Elements

JonathanQuinn — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 18:44:49 GMT

You should just be able to copy the URL of the service, (including the task name), and paste it into the URL parameter for the print task. Are you seeing problems when doing so?

Re: Print Widget and Custom Text Elements

CaseyRagain — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:21:39 GMT

Hi Jonathan,

This is the 10.2.2 GP service URL I'm using:

http://SERVERNAME.odot.state.or.us:6080/arcgis/rest/services/custom_print/custom_print/GPServer/Export%20Web%20Map

It seems to work fine. It will call and print the custom map(s) I have created, it just won't show the custom text elements of my map document layout templates.

Could it be that is not a secure service (HTTPS)? This URL is going into the ArcGIS Online print widget, not the Portal for ArcGIS print widget.

Also, does Option 1 in this blog work for the ArcGIS desktop/server 10.2.2 environment?

Thanks.

Re: Print Widget and Custom Text Elements

JonathanQuinn — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 22:18:05 GMT

HTTP/HTTPS shouldn't really matter. If you were to capture the request from the application using Fiddler, grab the webmap_as_json parameter and then use that JSON for the same parameter back in ArcMap. If it doesn't do anything with your custom elements, then it won't do it as a service. That may give you a good starting point for troubleshooting as well.

Re: Print Widget and Custom Text Elements

MartinWong1 — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 23:21:34 GMT

I described my solution to this problem at the bottom of this thread: https://community.esri.com/thread/177897 Essentially, publishing the print service with the Execution Mode set to Asynchronous was prohibiting the Get Layout Templates Info task from returning the layout's metadata. After I changed it to Synchronous and republished the service it finally worked.