Formatting number field for GP Service

[AllenScully]

We have a GP service where the last step is to add a field (DOUBLE, holds 2 decimal places) - and does a field calculation.  It's going from feet to miles - we only want to display 2 decimal places - so .34 miles instead of .34125823672... for example.

All works correctly running the tool in ArcMap - the output dataset is an in_memory feature layer, with the correct properties in the calculated miles field.  

Using the tool through a GP Widget in WAB (Portal, 10.6) - the field in question displays all of the decimal places - not respecting what was set in the script.  

Any way to enforce this in the Widget config (nothing obvious I could see) or tool config in arcmap?

Thanks - 

Allen

[JakeSkinner · Accepted solution]

Hi Allen,

Can you update the Field Calculation and use Python to round the calculation (i.e. round(val, 2)) to two decimal values?

[AllenScully]

Excellent - many thanks Jake, that does the trick. 

Still curious why it displayed correctly in ArcMap running the tool, but differently when run as a GP Service, since the properties of the field is explicitly set to be 2 decimal places.

Custom GP services are fickle things.

Allen