Web App Custom Print Workflow Guidance

[DW3]

Can someone please help me with a workflow I am trying to accomplish? I am new to this and just need some general guidance and references on how to go about solving my particular problem. I can take care of the python scripting that needs to happen however if there's any JavaScript I will need additional guidance.

I want to create a web application that will allow a user to do the following:

• Select ONE geographic boundary
  • I will have cities, zip codes, and township boundaries uploaded. User can toggle the layers on/off
• Hit print and the following will happen:
  • The grid index feature layers that intersect the user-selected geographic boundary will be selected
  • Grab the web map and insert it into an ArcGIS pro template that has Map Series enabled.
  • Export the Map Series as a PDF file.
  • Also export an excel file of the attributes of the point features that are printed in the Map Series.

How do I generally go about accomplishing this workflow? Thank you so much for any assistance you can provide. Once I know what I need to do I can get it done myself, just need some pointers. I appreciate it a lot!

[TanuHoque]

Diane,

this is how I'd have approached:

• I'd not use JS API Print digit, instead I'd implement my own print button (or menu or something like that)

The grid index feature layers that intersect the user-selected geographic boundary will be selected

• On the button_click, I'd use JS API search/select function of the feature layer to select index features

Grab the web map and insert it into an ArcGIS pro template that has Map Series enabled.

• call JS API Print Task and execute and submit a job to a print service

Export the Map Series as a PDF file.

• for that, on the server side, I'd use arcpy based print service.
  • here is a tutorial on how to publish an arcpy based print service. It is written for ArcMap, but the same concepts/steps are applicable for ArcGIS Pro. Tutorial: Advanced web map printing/exporting using arcpy.mapping—Documentation | ArcGIS Enterprise 
  • here is a tutorial on map series: MapSeries—ArcPy | ArcGIS Desktop 
    note: this is the one where I'm not sure whether it'd work right out of the box with layers come in part of webmap_as_json, or layers need to staged up front as it stated in another tutorial (Tutorial: Basic web map printing and exporting using arcpy.mapping—Documentation | ArcGIS Enterprise)
    I will talk to our arcpy.mapping guru and one of us will get back to you.

Also export an excel file of the attributes of the point features that are printed in the Map Series.

• Print service returns only one output - i don't think (at least I'm not aware of) you can return a pdf and an excel file as outputs from a print service and consumed that from JS API Print Task.
  
  • here is a crazy thought, you can use gp tool to export data to excel and use some python libraries to convert that excel to PDF >> combine that pdf to map series output pdf.