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Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

JamalNUMAN — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 11:59:16 GMT

Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

I couldn’t figure out how to get the “coordinates” expanded by default.

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

Egge-Jan_Pollé — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:15:57 GMT

It sounds strange to me that the Coordinate widget is not expanded by default. In my case it is (and it always has been, whenever I added this widget to an app).

I don't see no option to configure it to be collapsed by default - see screen capture below.

So, something else is wrong in your case. Maybe an issue with the projection of the map? What is the projection of your map?

You could also have a look here: Coordinate widget—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS | Documentation

BR,

Egge-Jan

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

MajdoleenO_A__Awadallah — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:02:34 GMT

Dear Egge-Jan,

Thank you for your reply, I tried it and got the same behavior as Jamal, but I noted that when you start a new WAB, the coordinates expanded by default (as shown in the first screen shoot), but when you change the WKID of the map, the coordinates will not expand, What do you think? and how to get the “coordinates” expanded by default when changing the WKID?

Thank you

Best

Majdoleen

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:17:31 GMT

All,

It is not possible to have the coordinate widget expand by default when your webmap uses a coordinate system that is not Geographic or WebMercator. The coordinate widget use the webmercatorutils class to automatically convert the mouse coordinates if the map is in geographic or webmercator, but if not it requires a mouse click to get the coordinates.

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

Egge-Jan_Pollé — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:32:19 GMT

Hi Majdoleen Awadallah,

Thanks for your reply. So, the hypothesis the issue has something to do with the projection of the map might be right 🙂

Let's see what I do:

All the data I use are in the Dutch projection (RD_New / 28992)
In the Netherlands a beautiful set of online basemaps in RD_New is offered by the local reseller, Esri Nederland, even including a recent (and razor sharp) aerial image in that very same projection
In my ArcGIS Online organization I did create a group Basemaps containing these Dutch basemaps and I did set this to be the default
So, when I open the Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS to create a new Web Mapping Application the coordinate system is already set to RD_New, and whenever I change the map it will also be in RD_New

...and in this scenario the Coordinate widget works a treat, showing, of course, Dutch coordinates.

Long story short: maybe you should try to set the WKID 28191 as the default in your ArcGIS Online (or Portal) organization.

HTH,

Egge-Jan

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

Egge-Jan_Pollé — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:43:08 GMT

Hi Robert Scheitlin, GISP,

How come? I tend not to agree... See my reaction to Majdoleen Awadallah‌ below.

All my data is in RD_New (https://epsg.io/28992), a Cartesian projection, and the Coordinate widget in my apps works as designed, showing the correct coordinates all the time when I hover around. ( And of course I can also use the 'click trick' when needed to obtain the coordinates of a specific location.)

What do you think? Am I wrong or...

BR,

Egge-Jan

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:47:42 GMT

Egge-Jan,

No you are correct if you are not trying to display a WKID that is different from your webmaps wkid then it will work fine.

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

MajdoleenO_A__Awadallah — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:23:09 GMT

Does this mean that in our case (WKID=28191) their is no option to get the “coordinates” expanded by default? I couldn't understand why this behavior is appeared now, I tried to use the WAB in 2015 and the coordinates was expanded by default when using our WKID, you can see the attached screenshot from 2015.

also you can visit this site for one of our municipalities, ArcGIS Web Application

they using the same WKID and the coordinates is expanded by default.

Best

Majdoleen

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:33:26 GMT

Majdoleen,

It all comes down to what is the WebMaps WKID (i.e. what is the WKID of the basemap used in the webmap) and what WKID you are attempting to show in the coordinate widget. If they are the same then the widget will show the mouse coordinates by default. If the widget has to project the mouse coordinates then it does not show the mouse coordinates and requires you to click on the map.

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

JamalNUMAN — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 07:20:12 GMT

Very confusing!

If you use 28191, then the coordinates are not expanded with WAB 7.4\2.15

The site below is using 28191, nevertheless, the coordinates are expanded by default

https://ramallahm.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0fd256a1448b492298fce0ec238f1f39

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:40:30 GMT

Jamal,

That is because as I mentioned in my last reply that particular site is using a basemap which is in WKID 28191. So as long as the basmap and the coordinater widgets display are in the same WKID then the coordinate widget will be expanded by default. If you are use esri basemaps the the basemaps WKID is 102100.

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

MajdoleenO_A__Awadallah — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 19:28:49 GMT

Thank you for your reply, I tried to add a base map with 28191 WKID, and the issue persist to exist. and unfortunately I couldn't delete the "World Hillshade" base map, and the new base map does not appear on the WAB map despite the fact that it is appeared in the map itself, and the “coordinates” does not expanded by default. please see the below:

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:12:29 GMT

Because you did not remove the esri basemap completely your web map is still in WKID 102100 and this is the still the same issue.

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

MajdoleenO_A__Awadallah — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:08:21 GMT

Thank you for your reply, as I mentioned before that I couldn't remove it since the remove button is gray, do you have any idea how to remove it?

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:31:00 GMT

Normally when you add data (from a tiled/cached service) it will ask if you want to add it as a basemap. This is what you want to do. It looks like you some how added it to the topographic esri basemap group.

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

MajdoleenO_A__Awadallah — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:47:16 GMT

Thank you Robert, it works like a charm.

I tried the two options to add the layer as a base map and it works fine.

the first options as shown below to add the tile map from my content

Second option: from WEB

and the coordenate will expanded by default, but why is the default unit is in feet and not meter??

the good thing that I switch it to metric and it works fine:

Thank you

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

JamalNUMAN — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 09:55:03 GMT

Thank you guys for the help

Right. Selecting the "use as basemap" option resolves the issue

Re: Web App Builder 7.4\2.15: How to get the “coordinates” expanded by default?

JamalNUMAN — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 09:56:42 GMT

Please, vote here:

Web App Builder 9.1\2.2: An option to get the coordinates expanded by default,