topic Re: Arcypy Custom Pop-ups in Python Questions

Arcypy Custom Pop-ups

AntonAntonenko — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:54:53 GMT

Is it possible to make custom pop-ups with Arcpy? or is there any access to a Pop-up object through Arcpy? we looking to be able to customize a pop-up graph for each specific point on the layer. I haven't found any sources regarding that issues online. This question is with regard to the ArcGIS Desktop version.

Re: Arcypy Custom Pop-ups

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:57:50 GMT

The Arcpy classes and functions list

not a mention of popups anywhere

Re: Arcypy Custom Pop-ups

JoshuaBixby — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:41:54 GMT

I can't summarize the situation any better than Building custom UI tools for ArcGIS with Python – Alex Tereshenkov . After you have a chance to read over Alex's blog post, the GeoNet community might be able to help answer any specific questions.

Re: Arcypy Custom Pop-ups

RandyBurton — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:33:56 GMT

I couldn't find any ArcPy solutions. In the layer properties (on the HTML Popup tab), the option that I suggest you explore is "As a formatted page based on an XSL template". You can click on the "Load" button and load the default xsl template code to examine.

Searching for "arcmap html popup xsl template" will lead to a couple of blog posts on the internet, including this Geonet topic: Custom XSL Formatting for HTML Popup in ArcMap.

Additional information, but no details on XSL templates:

Setting HTML pop-up properties for feature layers

Using HTML pop-up windows for feature layers

xsl‌ #xsl_template‌

Re: Arcypy Custom Pop-ups

AntonAntonenko — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:57:54 GMT

I read the article and looked into the specific links he posted. I don't believe that's the best solution, to develop a separate GUI using eternal libraries, I believe Alex mentions that this is not the best approach himself, in the article.

Re: Arcypy Custom Pop-ups

AntonAntonenko — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:01:30 GMT

Yes! I tried to find this option in properties, however I realize its for ArcMap and I'm using ArcGIS Pro. Supposedly ArcGIS Pro should include in it ArcMap, however I couldn't find any signs of existence of it. Could you please elaborate a bit more on that for me? How can these documentation exist if a standalone application of ArcMap doesn't exist anymore.

Re: Arcypy Custom Pop-ups

RandyBurton — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:09:33 GMT

I must admit my experience with ArcGIS Pro is limited. The pop-up feature is associated with the "Explore Tool". In the ArcGIS Pro Terminology Guide it states that the explore tool "contains functionality of" and is "similar to" the HTML Pop-Up tool. This suggests that the tool's underlying code may be very different from the ArcMap Desktop implementation. I could find not ArcGIS Pro ArcPy functions or classes that might interact with the pop-up. Perhaps there is a way with the https://community.esri.com/groups/arcgis-pro-sdk?sr=search&searchId=f1d108f6-584c-4720-a634-629f1f755a3e&searchIndex=1‌.

Re: Arcypy Custom Pop-ups

LeandraGordon — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:56:06 GMT

Nothing here https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/arcpy/classes/alphabetical-list-of-arcpy-classes.htm or here https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/arcpy/functions/alphabetical-list-of-arcpy-functions.htm so It looks like it's not available for Pro either

Re: Arcypy Custom Pop-ups

LeandraGordon — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 02:36:45 GMT

Posted as an Idea Here: https://community.esri.com/t5/python-ideas/ability-to-access-the-popup-object-in-arcpy-arcgis-pro/idi-p/1041413

Re: Arcypy Custom Pop-ups

KoryKramer — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:23:55 GMT

In ArcGIS Pro, there is Python CIM access - this gives you the ability to do things like turn a layer's pop-ups on/off programmatically, as well as set up and control the pop-ups. Here are a few pages from the CIM spec that may be relevant:

https://github.com/Esri/cim-spec/blob/master/docs/v2/CIMVectorLayers.md#CIMHtmlPopupFormat

https://github.com/Esri/cim-spec/blob/master/docs/v2/CIMVectorLayers.md#CIMPopupInfo

https://github.com/Esri/cim-spec/blob/master/docs/v2/CIMVectorLayers.md#CIMPopupLayout

Re: Arcypy Custom Pop-ups

LeandraGordon — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:12:51 GMT

Thanks Kory, I can confirm that the altering the layer properties via Python CIM access works a treat, this should be tagged as the answer.