topic Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Questions

Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

AnnieBrough — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:11:32 GMT

I am using the Smart Editor widget in WAB to create and then move point features to specific XY locations. However, upon doing so I noticed that when I enter an X or Y coordinate with 6 decimal places, it is automatically rounded to 3 decimal places. This is extremely infuriating as it is placing my point 30+ metres away from where it should be. When recording the exact location of something in a forest, this 30+ metres introduces significant and unnecessary error. I have been unable to find a setting in the widget where I can configure this differently, however, the number of decimal places in the Coordinate widget CAN be changed. Unfortunately, changing this widget's settings does not affect the Smart Editor XY decimals.

So my question is, has anyone been able to adjust the number of decimal places for the XY coordinates in the Smart Editor widget??

Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:35:25 GMT

Annie,

Are you using "Map Spatial Reference" or "Latitude/Longitude" in the popup?

Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

AnnieBrough — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:39:36 GMT

I am using "Latitude/Longitude" in the pop-up but tried both options and they both round the decimals to three.

Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 13:30:55 GMT

Annie,

The fix can be made in the XYCoordinate.html if you are using Portal or WAB Dev editions:

Lines 13 and 18

<div class="esriCTPopupContainer" data-dojo-attach-point="coordinatesPopup">
    <div class="esriCTFieldDropdownContainer">
        <div class="esriCTSelectTitle" title="${nls.coordinatesSelectTitle}">${nls.coordinatesSelectTitle}</div>
        <div class="esriCTFieldInput">
            <select style="width: 340px;" data-dojo-attach-point="coordinatesDropDown" data-dojo-type="dijit/form/Select">
                <option value="Map Spatial Reference">${nls.mapSpecialReferenceDropdownOption}</option>
                <option value="Latitude/Longitude">${nls.latLongDropdownOption}</option>
            </select>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="esriCTTextBoxContainer">
        <div class="esriCTSelectTitle" data-dojo-attach-point="xAttributeTextBoxLabel">${nls.xAttributeTextBoxLabel}</div>
        <div class="esriCTControlWidth" style="width: 340px;" data-dojo-attach-point="xAttributeTextBox" data-dojo-type="dijit/form/NumberTextBox" data-dojo-props="intermediateChanges:true, constraints:{pattern: '0.##########'}">
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="esriCTTextBoxContainer">
        <div for="yAttributeTextBox" class="esriCTSelectTitle" data-dojo-attach-point="yAttributeTextBoxLabel">${nls.yAttributeTextBoxLabel}</div>
        <div class="esriCTControlWidth" style="width: 340px;" data-dojo-attach-point="yAttributeTextBox" data-dojo-type="dijit/form/NumberTextBox" data-dojo-props="intermediateChanges:true, constraints:{pattern: '0.##########'}">
        </div>
    </div>
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Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

AnnieBrough — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:32:28 GMT

Thank you for the help Robert, but I would rather not have to download and host WAB just to make this minor change. Perhaps I should pose this suggestion in the Idea Board?

Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:34:27 GMT

Yes that is a good route. You should also make a call to esri tech support and get an enhancement request logged for this too.

Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

Anonymous User — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:11:25 GMT

Robert- I too have this issue and it sounds like your suggestion will fix it. However, I cannot seem to locate the "XYCoordinate.html" file. Would you be able to generally point me as to where this file is located in the web appbuilder folder structure? A search through the entire directory yielded no results unfortunately...

Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:41:07 GMT

Matt,

The XYCoordinate.html is right in the widgets\SmartEditor folder.

Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:41:49 GMT

Annie,

Don't forget to mark this question as answered by clicking on the "Mark Correct" link on the reply that answered your question.

Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

AiroboticsLtd — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:06:54 GMT

The code snippet does not fix the problem, the tool keeps round the coordinates into 3 decimal places.

Both in the SmartEditor Form and in the related attributes (these attrubutes are auto-updated using the smart attribute action)

Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

AlixVezina — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:35:23 GMT

Just wanted to let you know that the rounding issue should have been resolved by now in Smart Editor!

Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

Anonymous User — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:54:53 GMT

Hey, it's not fixed for me, I still have the same problem. Could this be a version issue? My version of Portal is 10.8.1.

Re: Smart Editor Rounding Coordinates

AlixVezina — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 21:02:12 GMT

Hi @Anonymous User , that's correct, the fix is only available since Portal 10.9. https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-web-appbuilder-blog/the-smart-editor-widget-a-few-years-in-review/ba-p/1066169#:~:text=000130044