New Map Viewer - Loss of HTML Pop UP Builder - Change to How Number Fields are Formatted in Links

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04-14-2021 07:49 AM
PaulVepraskas
Occasional Contributor

Today ESRI gave our users a pop up that asked if they wanted to change to the new map viewer that is now out of beta and some of my users have chosen to do so and in the few minutes we have one that we found 2 big issues?  

First issue is the new Map Viewer will recognize popups you created with the HTML option in the old viewer but you will not be able to edit them in the new viewer.  So if you create a custom look/form in the old viewer using the HTML option, your users would lose this functionality in the new version if you need to make a change.

Second is a bug on how the new map viewer passes number fields via URLs to other programs like survey123 or JavaScript API.  In my case we pass the X and Y to other programs from the pop up.  The new map viewer adds a comma to these values essentially breaking the link.  Yes a fix for that is to go into the map viewer and turn off the commas but that means you have to do that for every layer in every map that you are utilizing that feature.  

Example

(Old Map Viewer) xgeo=2496810.3036512136&ygeo=394099.1572907269

(New Map Viewer) xgeo=2%2C496%2C693.64&ygeo=394%2C094.78

 

Both of these seem like steps backwards?

 

 

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PaulBarker
Esri Contributor

Map viewer classic isn't going anywhere in 2021