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Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

MarkYerington — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 12:38:08 GMT

All

This widget is for creating point features at a known XY location. It is extending the smart editor widget so you can select a feature template and enter the XY location of the point. Once you click add location it will create the point at that known location.

I have a projection in my updates as some of our submittals are in decimal degrees WGS 84 and some are in State Plane. All of our maps are in Iowa State Plane South so I need to reproject using the WGS 84 output Spatial Reference and use the correct Transformation. If you are going to stay in the basemaps current coordinate system there is no need for a reprojection. If you do need to reproject you will have to update the url to your geometry service and also update all of the WKIDs on line 223,228, and 229 in widget.js.

The widget layout looks like the following:

Setting up the Widget

To install the widget for all web app builder applications you can add the widget to \client\stemapp\widgets folder. It will overwrite the default smart editor widget. If you just want it in an application add it into \server\apps\app#\widgets folder.

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:03:16 GMT

Thanks Mark. Added to /blogs/myAlaskaGIS/2016/03/09/web-appbuilder-developer-edition-customization-resource-list?sr=search&searchId=129ff1ad-b863-45a5-9cf5-2445fa78ec49&searchIndex=0‌ and /blogs/myAlaskaGIS/2017/03/04/web-appbuilder-the-custom-widgets-list-332017?sr=search&searchId=129ff1ad-b863-45a5-9cf5-2445fa78ec49&searchIndex=1‌

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

ThomasColson — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:46:52 GMT

How would one go about "baking" this into Ptl 10.6.1 so it comes with the standard WAB template?

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

MarkYerington — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:07:51 GMT

Tom

I was reading somewhere that I think webappbuilder 2.9 the Smart Editor widget has this functionality built in.

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/web-appbuilder/announcements/whats-new-in-web-appbuilder-june-2018/

Mark Yerington │GIS Manager│ GISP

Muscatine Area Geographic Information Consortium

c/o Muscatine Power & Water | 3205 Cedar Street | Muscatine, IA 52761

Office: 563.262.3316│Cell: 563.260.4525 Email: myerington@mpw.org│Web: magic-gis.com<https://magic-gis.com/>

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

ThomasColson — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:29:06 GMT

The problem is, that's the AGOL version. The PTL codebase is generally 1 year behind AGOL, and then we're 1 to 2 years behind current release on PTL due to the massive amount of security/regression/(calls to TS) testing we have to perform before deploying it on our network. This functionality is popular enough where we'd want to get this custom widget baked into the PTL WAB source code (on Dev first, of course).

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

MarkYerington — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:34:15 GMT

Tom

PTL are you talking Portal? That is one to 2 years behind, I thought maybe 1 or 2 versions, not 2 years that is crazy? Sorry we are just getting ready to install, not sure what it takes to package up these customizations with your local portal. I may look into it in the future, but I work almost exclusively in the developers version.

Mark Yerington │GIS Manager│ GISP

Muscatine Area Geographic Information Consortium

c/o Muscatine Power & Water | 3205 Cedar Street | Muscatine, IA 52761

Office: 563.262.3316│Cell: 563.260.4525 Email: myerington@mpw.org│Web: magic-gis.com<https://magic-gis.com/>

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:36:54 GMT

Guys,

It is normally a half year. Here is a link that will help with release info:

About release versions—Portal for ArcGIS | ArcGIS Enterprise

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

ThomasColson — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:41:41 GMT

Yeah, we're trying to move away from developer addition as that requires providing space on IIS, and opens up a whole new security issue. Gotta keep the Pine Cone Database Safe.....PTL 10.6.1 I'm darned close to being able to put my current WAB Dev Ed sites to bed, as almost all of the custom widgets that I deployed are now standard. But then stuff like this one comes out, and people hear about it and then......"Sorry we're not upgrading PTL 'till 2020....".

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

MarkYerington — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:42:40 GMT

Ok that is a little more acceptable so they are currently on 2.8 version of web appbuilder 2.9 will probably be released by December, could you use the 2.9 version of the smart editor and share like the following

http://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/use/add-custom-widgets.htm

I have never done this, but may be a workaround for now.

Mark Yerington │GIS Manager│ GISP

Muscatine Area Geographic Information Consortium

c/o Muscatine Power & Water | 3205 Cedar Street | Muscatine, IA 52761

Office: 563.262.3316│Cell: 563.260.4525 Email: myerington@mpw.org│Web: magic-gis.com<https://magic-gis.com/>

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

RichBell — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:37:50 GMT

I Love this Widget BUT....

Could you please update it to work with WAB 2.8?

It does not work in versions greater than 2.7

Please.......

Thank You!

Rich

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

MarkYerington — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:40:42 GMT

Rich

Here is the 2.8 version. Make sure you are zoomed in to where you have feature templates available and one is selected before clicking add location.

Mark Yerington │GIS Manager│ GISP

Muscatine Area Geographic Information Consortium

c/o Muscatine Power & Water | 3205 Cedar Street | Muscatine, IA 52761

Office: 563.262.3316│Cell: 563.260.4525 Email: myerington@mpw.org│Web: magic-gis.com<https://magic-gis.com/>

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

RichBell — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:13:06 GMT

First

Thank You!

We use this widget to place County Monuments once they are placed in the field.

I customized the widget a little to be more strait forward for our edit users.

What I did do is compare your widget to the 2.9 Smart Editor widget, thus added the Edit Layer to “Automatically Turn On” and included the ability to add both the Lat./Long and State Plane coordinates to the proper database field after the Monument was placed using the defined coordinate system.

Again Thank You so much!!

Rich

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

MarkYerington — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:20:18 GMT

Sounds great Rich!

Another user had emailed me directly so I had looked into this a couple months back. There were just a few changes that I had to make because of esri changes. I think going forward esri has incorporated this functionality into the out of the box smart editor widget.

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/web-appbuilder/water/using-the-smart-editor-widget-for-common-utility-workflows/

As you can see in the blog it states you can move point feature to GPS location. Not sure if you can create at XY, I have not looked into this new functionality from esri.

Mark Yerington │GIS Manager│ GISP

Muscatine Area Geographic Information Consortium

c/o Muscatine Power & Water | 3205 Cedar Street | Muscatine, IA 52761

Office: 563.262.3316│Cell: 563.260.4525 Email: myerington@mpw.org│Web: magic-gis.com<https://magic-gis.com/>

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

RichBell — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 19:42:31 GMT

Mark

A while back you updated this widget to work with WAB 2.8.

I found a bug that I cannot fix. Please help me if you can. What I found is:

After the point is placed, then click update, the Lat/Long and Northing/Easting coordinate fields populate.

BUT when you hit save button the Northing and Easting values will disappear and not populate the data field.

Reason being is that the commas are NOT being placed.

If you manually place the commas before you click save every thing works.

I have tried to fix this for a week with no luck.

I need the commas to be place or some function to use the field without the commas.

The image below is what is produced without the commas for the Northing & Easting fields.

The Fields will not save without the commas being shown.

Help?

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

MarkYerington — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:46:30 GMT

Rich

What is your database field type. I would think it would have something to do with the database. If you check your developer's console in chrome is there any error when you select Save?

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

MarkYerington — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:50:21 GMT

Also when you hit the your update button you could add commas in to the text.

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

RichBell — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:17:49 GMT

The field type is DOUBLE.

What I think maybe needs to happen is that your code needs to place the graphic point using the commas.

Because the Smart Editor “Update function adds the commas in the field. Why??

Weird function because the data field is Double as does not allow characters. Why would ESRI do that?

I need to dumb the steps down with little human interaction, unfortunately I’m not the one who does the data input.

I’m sure you get the concept.

Thank again

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

MarkYerington — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:25:01 GMT

So the update function is adding the commas and your field does not like it? I thought you were saying if you add commas it will accept the value, so I was thinking you need commas. I can look into it when I get some time, there has to be a setting that can be changed just like the coordinate widget, locator, etc where it defaults to adding a comma.

Mark Yerington │GIS Manager│ GISP

Muscatine Area Geographic Information Consortium

c/o Muscatine Power & Water | 3205 Cedar Street | Muscatine, IA 52761

Office: 563.262.3316│Cell: 563.260.4525 Email: myerington@mpw.org│Web: magic-gis.com<https://magic-gis.com/>

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

RichBell — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:40:37 GMT

The “update” does add the commas, hit save and it works.

Your code places the graphic point without commas and will not save, it wipes the 2 fields clean.

Then you must select the graphic point again, Click update, and it adds the commas and will save the values.

I did notice somewhere in the widget code it said “to avoid saving twice”. Maybe that is where to look????

This is driving me nuts!

Rich

Re: Create Point Features at XY Location Version 2.4 - 05/31/17

ThomasColson — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:55:02 GMT

In your original post "If you just want it in an application add it into \server\apps\app#\widgets folder.", for the life of me, I cannot find the \server\apps\app#\widgets folder (yes I have an app#), or even the \server\apps\ folder?