topic Re: Bold text in popup in MapViewer in ArcGIS Enterprise Portal Questions

Bold text in popup in MapViewer

acharko — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:22:44 GMT

Is there any way to bold certain elements in an arcade expression? The "source" button is missing from portal for the configure pop-up + add text element, so this would have to be done in Arcade.

I want to bold these field headings: ADDRESS: and LEGAL UNIT:

Re: Bold text in popup in MapViewer

jcarlson — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:41:13 GMT

Not until Enterprise 11.0 (hopefully!), I'm afraid. You can see it in AGOL, the way there's a separate Arcade object you can add to popups there, and this allows you to pipe in HTML to specific parts of the expression output.

return { type : 'text', text : 'Here is some <b>bold</b> text!' }

So for now, you'll just have to endure less-than-perfect popups, but know that the solution is coming!

Re: Bold text in popup in MapViewer

acharko — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:47:30 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply! We will watch for it!

Re: Bold text in popup in MapViewer

Bud — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:52:32 GMT

I don't have any experience with this sort of thing, and this almost certainly won't work, but I thought I'd ask out of curiosity:

If you put HTML tags directly in the text, what happens? Example: "foo <b>bar</b>"

I only ask because I stumbled upon an scenario (in an external system -- IBM Maximo Spatial) where I could put a HTML hyperlink in a db view's field -- and the map (ArcGIS JavaScript API?) picked up the HTML as a proper hyperlink. I would have never guessed that would work. Maybe HTML bolding would have worked too.

Re: Bold text in popup in MapViewer

acharko — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:52:40 GMT

I'm using the new map viewer, not classic and there seems to be some of that functionality missing.
Unfortunately, I can't call out the fields separate from the expression because the expression is looping through and finding where there are multiple owners for properties. If I create an expression for each field, it will repeat the fields instead of grouping them together.

Re: Bold text in popup in MapViewer

jcarlson — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:54:48 GMT

Reads as literal text. There are some WYSIWYG formatting tools in the popup text builder, but you can't get at those inside of an expression.

Re: Bold text in popup in MapViewer

Amarz — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:19:24 GMT

There is a very tedious way to do it where you are using both Managed Expressions and the Text Popup.

Make your Bolded Field Names through the General Text and add a Managed Expression underneath it.

Edit: If you do go this route.. I'm sorry, but to account for Null data instead of having a blank line, you can simply add the Managed Expression as

DefaultValue(popupString, 'No Data')

Re: Bold text in popup in MapViewer

Mopo3uk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:23:31 GMT

Is this an option now?