JSAPI 3.29 - customTextElements supported?

[Claire_Peterson]

First off, are customTextElements even supported in API 3.29? I have a Print dijit set up (code below) but I can't seem to get the customTextElements to show up on my layout. The customTextElements come directly from the Get Layout Templates Info Execute task. I would really like to be able to pass an array that is defined in PHP but the print keeps timing out. I swapped the arrays to just the letter "t" to see if that would work and again, it's timing out. I see that customTextElements are listed under the layoutOptions but you can't pass DynamicText? I am looking to display attribute information for the feature that is being printed by a URL parameter (ID) on the layout template.

  // print dijit
      var printer = new Print({
          map: theMap,
          url: "<server>",
          templates: [{
            label: "Map",
            format: "PDF",
            layout: "TREATMENTS",
            layoutOptions: {
              customTextElements: [
                  {"Target": "t"},
                  {"Date": "t"},
                  {"EPA": "t"},
                  {"Chemical": "t"},
                  {"Weather": "t"},
                  {"Title": "t"},
                  {"Year": "t"}
                ]
            },
            exportOptions: {
              width: 772,
              height: 772,
              dpi: 200
            }
          }]
      }, dom.byId("printButton"));
      printer.startup();
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[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Claire,

  Sure they absolutely work for me in 3.29.

var templates = [{
        label: "jpg with info",
        format: "jpg",
        showAttribution: true,
        layout: "Letter ANSI A Landscape",
        exportOptions: {
          "dpi": 96
        },
        layoutOptions: {
          copyrightText: "",
          customTextElements: [{
            StreetAdd: "Street Address: 123 lone st"
          },{
            ParcelNum: "Parcel Num: 121345698"
          },{
            PPIN: "PPIN: 1234"
          },{
            OwnerName: "Owners Name: Me"
          }]
        }
      }];

      // print dijit
      app.printer = new Print({
        "map": app.map,
        "templates": templates,
        url: "my custom print service url"
      }, dojo.byId("printButton"));
      app.printer.startup();‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

[Claire_Peterson]

Robert Scheitlin, GISP - do you have to 'hard code' the text for the customTextElements or can you pass variables or certain attributes from the feature being printed?

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

I am using variables in my code.

[Claire_Peterson]

Robert Scheitlin, GISP I'm still a bit of a novice with this so forgive me. How are you passing the variables to the text boxes on your layout?

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Using the code I provided above instead of :

StreetAdd: "Street Address: 123 lone st"

I just substitute the "Blah Blah" with some variable. 

[Claire_Peterson]

Robert Scheitlin, GISP‌ Ah okay - I was under the assumption that this text was hard coded so that is why I was a bit confused. I've seen examples using the customTextElements but I don't believe I have seen any with variables being called.

Can you use something like $array[0] if you have everything defined or does it have to be formatted a certain way?

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Claire,

   Are you saying that you do not know what the customTextElements are to begin with? You have me a little confused here. It seems you might be over complicating this.

[Claire_Peterson]

Robert Scheitlin, GISP‌ Sorry to confuse you, that is certainly not my intention. More than likely that is exactly what I am doing - I have been at this for 3, almost 4 weeks so I have been reading a lot of material and probably confusing myself.

So what I have is a custom print service that I published. Below is a screen shot with a few elements removed. It has a some text boxes (where it says empty) that I would like to have only certain attribute information appear on the printout. I do not have data driven pages enabled because there are no layers in this template (just wanted to create something nice for the printout). I currently have the attribute information working as a PHP array where it captures the information I need from the ID in the URL and prints it into an html div but I have not been able to figure out how to get that same information and place it on this layout.

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Claire,

   So when I go to my custom print service and execute "get layout Template Info" Task I get results like this:

{
 "results": [
  {
   "paramName": "Output_JSON",
   "dataType": "GPString",
   "value": [
  {
    "layoutOptions":  {
      "hasAuthorText":  false,
      "hasCopyrightText":  false,
      "hasTitleText":  false,
      "hasLegend":  false,
      "customTextElements":  [{
          "StreetAdd":  " "
       }, {
          "ParcelNum":  " "
       }, {
          "PPIN":  " "
       }, {
          "OwnerName":  " "
       }]
     },
    "pageSize":  [
      11.0,
      8.5
     ],
    "layoutTemplate":  "Letter ANSI A Landscape",
    "activeDataFrameSize":  [
      10.0,
      6.25
     ]
    },
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So then I use the code I originally posted to populate those customTextEelements.