topic Re: ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing in ArcGIS Pro Questions

ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing

BledarBirbo — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:57:09 GMT

We are having an issue where all our mapservices layer descriptions are enclosed in HTML tags like this:

Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>This layer comprises the findings ....

We cannot find a way how to disable this.

I think this started happening after upgrading to arcgis pro 2.8.1

We are using Arcgis porta/server 10.8.1

Anyone has any idea how to resolve this ?

Re: ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing

ABishop — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 13:47:54 GMT

@BledarBirbo

I haven't heard of this, but there is a Portal for ArcGIS Security 2021 Update 1 Patch for portal 10.8.1

https://support.esri.com/en/download/7899

Re: ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing

MarcusT — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 14:09:25 GMT

@BledarBirbo @ABishop Did this patch solve the problem? We are also having this issue.

Re: ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing

JonahLay — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:38:44 GMT

Hello,

I don't have too much information on this. But I can confirm that this behavior is expected. The workaround would be to remove the text in the description field prior to publishing. You can fill in the description on the portal item details through the web browser.

Thanks,

Jonah

Re: ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing

MarcusT — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:51:25 GMT

Hello,

@JonahLay wrote:
You can fill in the description on the portal item details through the web browser.

It's not the description for the portal item, it's about the description field for each layer in the map service.

Re: ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing

ABishop — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:14:17 GMT

I haven't heard back from @BledarBirbo

Re: ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing

BledarBirbo — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:35:06 GMT

I think the HTML tags are added to the description of each layer whenever the text contains new lines (example if you hit enter)

ArcGIS Pro should have an option to remove html tags before publishing.

Re: ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing

MarcusT — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:09:16 GMT

I tried to only have "test" in the description field and it didn't work.

Re: ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing

cbp-geus — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:43:01 GMT

We are also encounting this problem and haven't found a way to remove it. It's a problematic issue that is causing a mess in the GetCapabilities info of the hosted service.

<Abstract>
<![CDATA[ <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>

Re: ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing

cbp-geus — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:30:18 GMT

We have found an workaround for this issue which is unfortunately time consuming as every layer has to be updated with this method.

The workaround is to select the affected map or layer in the Catalog View and do an Export of the metadata to an xml file. We used the FGDC CSDGM format. Then do an Import for the same affected map / layer with the exported file and republish the service.

After this we could confirm that the issue with the HTML TAG disappeared from the map service.

Re: ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing

jalary — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:04:28 GMT

I was able to remove HTML tags by doing this workaround:

From the content panel, save the project in "mapx" format (right click , save as Map File)
Open the .mapx file in Notepad++
Select all lines having HTML tags, except the lines that are part of "binaryReferences" at the bottom of the file.
Set notepad++ to search for RegEx value : <.*?>, and replace by nothing.
- This will remove everything between "<" and ">", including "<" and ">"
Save modifications and import the ".mapx" file in ArcGIS Pro (or just double click on it)

After this workaround, map services on ArcGIS Server doesn't have html tags

Re: ArcGIS Pro adds HTML Tags to all map/layer descriptions when publishing

AdrianMarsden — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:37:54 GMT

Duplicate thread https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/how-to-remove-html-tags-from-metadata-description/td-p/1189922

How can such a 'feature' get added without any option to remove it? It has broken a key part of my code.

It is bad enough that esri are forcing us to the (still) pre-beta ArcGIS Pro - which is going to have a huge cost implication to us as it means upgrading our VM host to have Nvidia GRID cards, as running without GPUs is just impossible. But also, their decision to stop support of raster cats (that was a week of my time I've lost converting to VRT. And now I find out about this!