topic Re: Dynamic text: Possible to change number format directly in the dynamic text properties rather than through attribute table's field properties? in Mapping Questions

Dynamic text: Possible to change number format directly in the dynamic text properties rather than through attribute table's field properties?

LindsayWithers1 — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:59:54 GMT

I'm working with dynamic text for Data Driven Pages in ArcMap. Is it possible to change number format (such as number of decimal points, thousands separators, or formatting a number as a percentage) directly through the dynamic text properties dialog rather than through the attribute table's field properties? We have some Data Driven Reports with a lot of dynamic text, and while we try to avoid adding new unformatted fields to the datasets, sometimes it happens and it can take a while to go through each field and reformat the numbers so that they show up correctly through the dynamic text.

Re: Dynamic text: Possible to change number format directly in the dynamic text properties rather than through attribute table's field properties?

David_Brooks — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 07:45:55 GMT

@LindsayWithers1 , here you go:

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/layouts/add-and-modify-dynamic-text.htm

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Numeric values

You can modify the number of decimal places used by tags that return numeric values using the decimalPlaces attribute. For example, <dyn type="mapFrame" name="MapFrameName" property="lowerMid" units="ddm" decimalPlaces="0"/> appears as -95 13 32 58, and <dyn type="mapFrame" name="Map Map Frame" property="lowerMid" units="ddm" decimalPlaces="2"/> appears as -95 13.29 32 57.68.

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...then check the section about Pre and Post tags, if you want to add % symbols on etc.

If you want to display a decimal value as a percentage, you could just set up an Attribute Rule in a new field to multiply the main field by 100.

Re: Dynamic text: Possible to change number format directly in the dynamic text properties rather than through attribute table's field properties?

OleNowak — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:19:26 GMT

Seems only to work with dynamic attributes of type "mapFrame".

In my example it does not work on a map series for an attribute field with datatype double.

This always results in the double value like "88" "88.1" "88.12" "88.123" "88.1234"

Iwould like to have it with 2 decimal places: "88.00" "88.10" "88.12" "88.12"

And the dynamic text does not recognize the settings for the numeric field in the fields definition.