topic Re: Textsymbol not printing at all in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Questions

Textsymbol not printing at all

DeanWilson — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 13:11:10 GMT

I've seen a lot of the textsymbol questions in the forums here and have tried every one of them. My issue is the textsymbol doesn't show up at all on the print. It shows on the map as built. Here's the code as to how I'm putting this together. I also tried putting this layer together by itself (to take the fact there are multiple graphics layers out of the scenario) and still getting the same issues. Here's my method:

_buildRatioViewerGraphics: function(ratioViewerData){

let features = [];

let textFeatures = [];

arrayUtils.forEach(ratioViewerData, lang.hitch(this, function(ratioFeature){

let polySymbol = new SimpleFillSymbol(

SimpleFillSymbol.STYLE_SOLID,

new SimpleLineSymbol(

SimpleLineSymbol.STYLE_SOLID,

new Color(this._ratioColorPicker(ratioFeature.attributes.ratio)),

0.4

new Color(this._ratioColorPicker(ratioFeature.attributes.ratio))

);

let featureGraphic = new Graphic(ratioFeature);

featureGraphic.setSymbol(polySymbol);

features.push(featureGraphic);

let textColor = new Color();

textColor.setColor([0, 0, 0, 1]);

let textFont = new Font();

textFont.setSize("12pt");

textFont.setWeight(Font.WEIGHT_BOLD);

textFont.setFamily("Arial");

let textSymbol = new TextSymbol()

.setText(this._formatRoutingNumberLabel(ratioFeature.attributes.routingNumber))

.setFont(textFont)

.setColor(textColor)

.setAlign(Font.ALIGN_MIDDLE)

.setAngle(0)

.setHaloColor(new Color([255, 255, 255, 0.3]))

.setHaloSize(1);

textSymbol.horizontalAlignment = "center";

textSymbol.verticalAlignment = "center";

let textFeatureGraphic = new Graphic(ratioFeature);

textFeatureGraphic.setSymbol(textSymbol);

textFeatures.push(textFeatureGraphic);

}));

this.featureLayer.applyEdits(features, null, null);

this.textFeatureLayer.applyEdits(textFeatures, null, null);

return features;

}

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

DeanWilson — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:28:14 GMT

Bumping this question.... Just checking to see if I should word this any different maybe? Still not functioning right.

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

SeanMcCullough — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:36:39 GMT

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/api-reference/esri-layers-FeatureLayer.html#applyEdits

featureLayer.applyEdits({ addFeatures: features });‍‍

You should probably look into labeling if you're trying to label graphics.

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/api-reference/esri-layers-FeatureLayer.html#labelingInfo

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

DeanWilson — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:07:37 GMT

Thanks for the tip. I'll look into the labeling part of it. But, what if I only have a text symbol? Those are the things that aren't printing. I can take out the other graphic features and just leave the textsymbol and it doesn't show up in the print.

P.S. I didn't add this before, and I should have, but I'm using the 3.x api, not the 4.x..

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

Noah-Sager — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 22:44:48 GMT

I did a quick sanity check and I am able to print TextSymbols with 3.29. Couple questions for you:

1) What (ArcGIS Server) version of the print service are you using? If you try the AGO print service, do you get the same result?

printUrl = "https://utility.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/Utilities/PrintingTools/GPServer/Export%20Web%20Map%20Task";

2) Are you adding those TextSymbols as a GraphicsLayer to a FeatureLayer through the applyEdits() method? Do you see the TextSymbols in the printout if you just add the GraphicsLayer (or each Graphic) to the map?

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

DeanWilson — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:48:02 GMT

Hi Noah,

To answer your questions:

1) We're using arcgis server 10.4.1 for all of our services, including the print service.

2) Yes I'm adding the textsymbols as graphics to a featurelayer thru applyEdits(). The textsymbols are on the map as displayed, just not in the prints. The rub with all of this is I'm building the feature layers off of a featurecollection that uses the attributes that I make, not the arcgis server. Maybe thats the issue but I'm not 100%. There's really not much I can do about that because I'm pulling the attribute data from a third party sql server on premise, and not attributes from arcgis. Hopefully that makes sense.. let me know if i have to explain that different.

-Dean

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

Noah-Sager — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 18:23:45 GMT

Thanks Dean. There were two other things I was hoping you could test. I'll re-word the second to make it more clear:

1) If you try the AGO print service, do you get the same result?

printUrl = "https://utility.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/Utilities/PrintingTools/GPServer/Export%20Web%20Map%20Task";

2) Do you see the TextSymbols in the printout if you just add the GraphicsLayer (or each Graphic) to the map instead of adding them to a FeatureLayer first?

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

DeanWilson — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 19:09:39 GMT

Noah,

The print widget that I'm using (I'm utilizing the print widget from webappbuilder) Won't take the url that you mentioned when I put it in the config for "serviceUrl". Any ideas on that?

I did add the textsymbols straight to the map using:

this.map.graphics.add(textFeatureGraphic);

But still not showing on the print. It may be the print service in 10.4 has a bug in it.. Not sure how I can test that other then upgrading the arcgis server we have on-premise.

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

DeanWilson — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:44:43 GMT

Another bump on this question. I've tried the few things Noah mentioned but to no avail. Is this a print service issue that's used in 10.4 server?

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

DeanWilson — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:25:32 GMT

Bump! Hopefully this doesn't fall into the GEONET black hole..

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

DeanWilson — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:32:05 GMT

Still looking for some insight on this issue. Thanks!

--Dean

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:42:58 GMT

Have you made the call to esri tech support?

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

DeanWilson — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:45:35 GMT

No I haven't. I was hoping I could find something here since I'm sure I'm not the only one having this kind of problem. I suppose I'll have to call them though.

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

TanuHoque — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:15:57 GMT

I agree this issue needs to taken to Esri tech support.

In the meantime, pls take a look at the value passed in for the parameter named 'webmap_as_json' for the print service. you can use any browser's Developer's Tools >> Network tab to trace the request. If you share that here (zip it if the json is large), I can take a quick look at that too.

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

DeanWilson — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:25:49 GMT

My only holdup with getting with ESRI about it is the fact that we're on a 10.4.1 arcgis on-premise server. But on any case, I'll take a peek and see what I can get to you, Tanu. Thanks!

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

DeanWilson — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:19:30 GMT

I attached the print submission json as a zip to the question posting. I went ahead and formatted the json for easier readability. Thanks!!

-Dean

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

TanuHoque — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:03:30 GMT

Thanks Dean Wilson‌.

It looks like the graphic layer that your JS code creates to show text, are of polygon type. That is currently not supported in print services.

Try change that to point geometry type. That should make it to work.

see the attached .zip file that is a modified version of what you sent me. if you use that in a request to your print service, you should see one feature gets labeled (to keep it simple, I removed all other labels from the json).

hope this helps.

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

DeanWilson — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:05:55 GMT

This did it Tanu.. I went ahead and used the geometry service on the existing polygon rings and put label points as the geometry and drew them that way. They show up in the prints great! Thank you soooo much for your insight on this. Nowhere did I see that in order to print the text graphics the geometry needed to be of type point.

-Dean

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

TanuHoque — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:04:33 GMT

Hi Dean, thanks for the updates. I'm glad that it worked for you.

Nowhere did I see that in order to print the text graphics the geometry needed to be of type point.

You are right, unfortunately this is not doc'ed any where. Sorry about the inconvenience. We will look at this from the doc side and see how we can improve that.

Re: Textsymbol not printing at all

Noah-Sager — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:35:41 GMT

Follow-up: we will have the documentation updated to make this clear for the next release (3.30), which is due out in October.