topic Re: custom attribute display using YEAR as part of URL in ArcGIS Online Questions

custom attribute display using YEAR as part of URL

Anonymous User — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:30:52 GMT

Hello,

I have a web app we've been using for years now and every year we have to go in to the URL properties of the custom attribute display and change the URL of a link to reflect the new year.

Ideally we can use the current year but I have no idea how to incorporate that as any code I try to put in the LINK properties shows up as text in the URL rather than returning the year.

Is there a way to access the current year in the URL field of a link in a custom attribute display?

In the URL below I hacked and tried adding javascript like Date.getFullYear() but it adds that to the URL string rather than running code to return current year.

Help is greatly appreciated.

Re: custom attribute display using YEAR as part of URL

jcarlson — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:41:02 GMT

Try creating a custom popup expression:

Year(Now())

And then piping that expression into your popup.

Re: custom attribute display using YEAR as part of URL

Anonymous User — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:01:07 GMT

Where do I create the custom popup expression?

Re: custom attribute display using YEAR as part of URL

jcarlson — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:07:01 GMT

Click "Add" under "Attribute Expressions" on the "configure popup" panel.

Re: custom attribute display using YEAR as part of URL

Anonymous User — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:12:27 GMT

Thanks. This app is currently on a server with an older version of portal and unfortunately the popup dialog doesn't show attribute expressions. That would be the way to do it though. Thank you!