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Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

JosVroegop — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:33:38 GMT

I am looking for information on how to use date and number formatting in the flexviewer's 2.3 popups.
There is one example that uses the date formatter but i can't seem to get it to work in my own popups. Can anyone help me out? Thanx in advance.

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:41:52 GMT

Jos,

You have to jump over to the API documentation for that:

http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/apiref/com/esri/ags/webmap/supportClasses/PopUpFieldFormat.html

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

JosVroegop — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:34:29 GMT

Thanks, i found what i was looking for. I added an example.

<fields>
<field name="Number" " visible="true">
        <format precision="3"/>
        </field>
<field name="Date" visible="true">
        <format dateformat="DD-MM-YYYY"/>
        </field>
</fields>

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

JonFisher — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:00:53 GMT

I've been having trouble turning off the thousand separator. I'm using the syntax:
<field name="TR_IFMS_ID" alias="Tract ID" visible="true">
<format useThousandsSeparator="false"/>
</field>

But the field is still showing up with the thousand separators. Any tips?

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

MehulChoksey — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:57:32 GMT

try all lowercase and note single s after thousand. usethousandseparator

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

JonFisher — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:27:15 GMT

try all lowercase and note single s after thousand. usethousandseparator

Thanks, I had the extra s and capitalization since that's what the API page lists. I changed it to:
<field name="TR_IFMS_ID" alias="Tract ID" visible="true">
<format usethousandseparator="false"/>
</field>

But it's still displaying the comma thousand separators (see attached). Can others get this to work properly? The field is esriFieldTypeDouble in case that makes a difference. I never had this problem with thousand separators until the 2.3 upgrade.

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:02:01 GMT

Jon,

The thousands separator is a bug.

If you are one that is using the FlexViewer source code than you can fix the BUG that is causing this.

In the MapManager.mxml line 980.

is Currently (BUG):

pFieldInfo.format.useThousandsSeparator = fields.format.@usethousandseparator;

needs to be (FIX):

pFieldInfo.format.useThousandsSeparator = fields.format.@usethousandseparator == "true";

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

JonFisher — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:28:07 GMT

That fixed it, thanks so much!

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

DerekHunter — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:30:15 GMT

Wondering correct use of this for use in FeatureTooltip widget. My date field for given date (6/8/2011) displays as 1307491200000. Below is the xml for the widget.

<configuration>
<layers>
        <layer>
            <name>Crime</name>
            <fields>Crime_Date,PD_ID,Street,Description</fields>
        </layer>
    </layers>
</configuration>

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:40:00 GMT

Derek,

I don't do any special formatting of returned values in this widget and esri returns date field values for REST as a UTC number.

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

DerekHunter — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:14:56 GMT

Any way to convert UTC to dd/mm/yyyy in mxml ?

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:42:07 GMT

Derek,

Go grab version 2.3.2. I have added datefield and dateformat to the configuration.

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

DerekHunter — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:54:06 GMT

Thanks Robert

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

FrankRoberts — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:05:20 GMT

Thought I would tack on a question to this thread. I have popup.xml configured to show a variety of fields from a layer in FlexViewer 2.3. Some of these fields are coded domains. On all the fields but one this works just great. However on one field for some reason the popup gives the code value (e.g. "1") instead of the description of the domain.

I've reviewed the information in the mxd that is being published and the text value comes up when I do an identify in ArcMap, so it looks right there.

I've then reviewed the rest end point and it list the coded domain and the text values, just like the other coded domains in the dataset that work well with the popup.xml. So there seems to be no difference there.

I have also added the feature layer to ArcGIS.com map and the domain all appear correctly there. So that leads me to believe the the service is rendering the information correctly.

To add a twist to this, it appears that at some locations the value appears correctly in the popup in the Flexviewer and at others it displays the code.

I have provided examples below, if this isn't very clear.

Any idears?

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

Anonymous User — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:54:40 GMT

Jon,

The thousands separator is a bug.

If you are one that is using the FlexViewer source code than you can fix the BUG that is causing this.

In the MapManager.mxml line 980.

is Currently (BUG):
pFieldInfo.format.useThousandsSeparator = fields.format.@usethousandseparator;
needs to be (FIX):
pFieldInfo.format.useThousandsSeparator = fields.format.@usethousandseparator == "true";

Hello - I searched for this bug to see if it had been fixed, but couldn't locate it - do you know if it's been fixed?

I am configuring a pop-up in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 3.0 and am trying to get rid of the thousand separators:

    
<fields>
 <field name="ALPHA_NAME" alias="Name:" visible="true"/>
 <field name="ACCOUNT_ID" alias="Account ID:" visible="true">
  <format usethousandseparator="false"/>
 </field>
<fields>

I am using a compiled xml and don't think the pFieldInfo fix that you suggested for Jon applies to me (true?)

Any suggestions for me (I could configure my entire pop-up with HTML but I'm even less handy with HTML tags...?)

Re: Popup formatting dates and numbers in FlexViewer 2.3

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:54:42 GMT

Katie,

It looks like your issue is that you are missing an "s" in the attribute it should be "usethousandsseparator"

<fields>
    <field name="ALPHA_NAME" alias="Name:" visible="true"/>
    <field name="ACCOUNT_ID" alias="Account ID:" visible="true">
        <format usethousandsseparator="false"/>
    </field>
<fields>