Dynamic Text Trimming

Anonymous User — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:50:02 GMT

While filling out product information in my project overlay I require dynamic text that displays either MGRS or USNG but only the UTM Zone portion (ex: 18Q, 19Q). Currently in the dynamic text you're able to set the number of decimal places, but there's no way to remove the 100,000m grid zone designators (Ex: 18Q WG).

The WG in the previous example is the part I want to remove, but you're currently unable to use standard text formatting tags aside from font specific ones when dealing with dynamic text.

Please add the ability to use text formatting tags (such as "trim") to text inserts that will actually effect dynamic text. Or add the ability to define the max amount of characters in the dynamic text variables.

My current solution is the place a white box over the unneeded part, however if you're working in a zone with wider letters (ex: W vs. I) it will shift the rest of the letters and possibly expose some pixels of the unwanted text. Manually checking this every time creates a longer workflow and leaves room for oversight errors.

Re: Dynamic Text Trimming

MattSmithCarto — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:33:00 GMT

I fully support this. I would love the ability to pull out smaller portions of the UTM and MGRS dynamic text.

For example to be able to pull out the information that a map is in Zone 56. To be able to pull out the Zone number alone from <dyn type="mapFrame" name="MapFrameName" property="sr" srProperty="pcs"/> would be a boon. From this tag, all I need is the zone number, not even the N or S as my map readers know which hemisphere they are in?

Also to be able to pull out snippet from the MGRS info to make something like that would be helpful...

The more flexibility, the better!!!

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Dynamic Text Trimming

Re: Dynamic Text Trimming