topic Re: On Edit Complete in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Questions

On Edit Complete

MeleKoneya — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:20:38 GMT

I am using the Edit Widget and the Batch Attribute Editor widget to edit our Feature Layer. I would like to be able to modify two attributes when the Edit is Complete with these widgets. I would like to update a date field and a user field. I know this can be done via the Editor Tracking Fields, but the layer is edited in ArcMap and I only want to update the attributes when an edit occurs via WAB. Is there a place in WAB where I can put some custom code to set these attributes when an edit is compete?

Thanks,

Mele

Re: On Edit Complete

LizDaRos — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:11:10 GMT

Mele,

I asked this same kind of question a few weeks ago and Robert suggested adding these lines to the _worksAfterCreate: function which is in the Edit Widget.js.

//Add the autopopulate field value

this.editor.templatePicker.on("selection-change", lang.hitch(this, function() {

var selected = this.editor.templatePicker.getSelected();

if (selected) {

var featureLayer = selected.featureLayer;

on.once(featureLayer, "before-apply-edits", lang.hitch(this, function(evt){

if(evt.adds && evt.adds.length > 0){

if(evt.adds[0].attributes.hasOwnProperty('Begin_Date_Occ')){

evt.adds[0].attributes.Begin_Date_Occ = new Date(Date.now());

}

this.editor.attributeInspector.refresh();

}

}));

}

}));

//End add

This only works when creating new features so if you are just updating attributes of already created features these fields will not auto-populate, I'm still trying to fix that. Maybe you could remove the this.editor.attributeInspector.refresh(); line so it does not show the auto-populated fields.

Here's the link to my question for more information.

Re: On Edit Complete

AlejandroCosci — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:29:53 GMT

Hello Mele;

Just a quick question...

I have same prom like you, I need update same fields during edit occurs.

Did you solve this issue?

Regards,

Alejandro Cosci

Re: On Edit Complete

MeleKoneya — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:00:44 GMT

Alejandro,

I did solve this issue using the code that Liz provided which Robert had suggested.

Let me know if you have any questions on how I implemented this.

Mele

Re: On Edit Complete

AlejandroCosci — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:13:40 GMT

Thanks for your quick answer Mele!

Yes I had some problems to adapt the solution of Liz to my project.

As the USR draws a polygon, I need to update a field with a global var to populate a specific field(USR_ID).

If you have an example for this I would really appreciate it.

Regards,

Alejandro

Re: On Edit Complete

MeleKoneya — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 14:27:57 GMT

Alejandro,

This my complete code.

_worksAfterCreate: function () {
       //debugger;
        this.editor.templatePicker.on("selection-change", lang.hitch(this, function() { 
          var selected = this.editor.templatePicker.getSelected(); 
          if (selected) { 
            var featureLayer = selected.featureLayer;
            on.once(featureLayer, "before-apply-edits", lang.hitch(this, function(evt){ 
            if(evt.adds && evt.adds.length > 0){ 
                if(evt.adds[0].attributes.hasOwnProperty('sfd_status')){ 
                  evt.adds[0].attributes.sfd_status = "NOT FLUSHED";
                }
                if (evt.adds[0].attributes.hasOwnProperty('sfd_edit_by')){ 
                  evt.adds[0].attributes.sfd_edit_by = StationShift;
                } 
                 if (evt.adds[0].attributes.hasOwnProperty('sfd_edit_date')){ 
                  evt.adds[0].attributes.sfd_edit_date = convertUTCDateToLocalDate(new Date(Date.now()));
                }
                refreshLayers(this.map, this.map.graphicsLayerIds);
                this.editor.attributeInspector.refresh();
              } 
            }));
           } 
        }));
       },

The section that may be most applicable to your situation is where I have a field called 'sfd_edit_by' that I am populating with my 'StationShift' variable defined elsewhere.

if (evt.adds[0].attributes.hasOwnProperty('sfd_edit_by')){ 
          evt.adds[0].attributes.sfd_edit_by = StationShift;
   }

Re: On Edit Complete

AlejandroCosci — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:58:55 GMT

Thanks for your help Mele!

After several test we could use the code that you provide me.

But with some changes:

I added the code into _addButtonToInspector: function() not into _worksAfterCreate: function()

And remove the line:

refreshLayers(this.map, this.map.graphicsLayerIds); It did not work on my code.

Again, thanks a lot for your help!

Alejandro Cosci

Re: On Edit Complete

MeleKoneya — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 23:37:37 GMT

Alejandro,

I am grateful to Liz and Robert for their help and I am glad their assistance to me was also of use to you.

Mele

Robert Scheitlin, GISP

Re: On Edit Complete

JoseSanchez — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 20:39:52 GMT

Hello everyone,

I am also using the Edit Widget and I need to autopopulate fields in my code.

The application creates a new polygon layer with 2 variations: one blue and another green.

To start I just added to the source code ..\widgets\Edit\Widget.js and 2 alerts

on the events:

_worksAfterCreate: Alert("_worksAfterCreate")

_worksBeforeCreate: Alert("_worksAfterCreate")

Both alerts display before the Edit Widget window show all its components. Before the drawing tools part to select a polygons are visible inside Edit Widget window.

Also I just added the code from this post to update one field but it does not work

This is my question:

After selecting a shape to draw a new polygon with the Edit Widget it pops up a new window to enter attributes (attribute inspector) . I have to click on the button close in the attribute inspector to save all the values entered on the attributes, but the event _worksAfterCreated is not called from the Attribute Inspector anymore.

_worksAfterCreate: function(settings) {

// add close button to atiInspector

this._addButtonToInspector();

// disable delete button in the toolbar

if(this._configEditor.toolbarVisible) {

this._disableDeleteBtnInToolbar();

}

// resize editPopup

this.editPopup.resize(300, 251);

// update templatePicker for responsive.

this.editor.templatePicker.update(true);

// // reset default selectionSymbol that change by Editor dijit.

// array.forEach(this.editor.settings.layerInfos, function(layerInfo) {

// layerInfo.featureLayer.setSelectionSymbol();

// }, this);

//Customized Code for the AutoPopulated fields

alert("_worksAfterCreate ");

this.editor.templatePicker.on("selection-change", lang.hitch(this, function() {

var selected = this.editor.templatePicker.getSelected();

if (selected) {

var featureLayer = selected.featureLayer;

on.once(featureLayer, "before-apply-edits", lang.hitch(this, function(evt){

if(evt.adds && evt.adds.length > 0){

if(evt.adds[0].attributes.hasOwnProperty('ID')){

evt.adds[0].attributes.ID = 1);

}

this.editor.attributeInspector.refresh();

}

}));

}

}));

Re: On Edit Complete

JoseSanchez — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 20:19:05 GMT

Just to let you know that the code works in the _worksAfterCreate: event.