{"id":72371,"date":"2016-06-20T05:15:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/printing-popups-from-web-application\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T09:07:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:07:47","slug":"printing-popups-from-web-application","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-enterprise\/mapping\/printing-popups-from-web-application","title":{"rendered":"Printing Popups from Web Application"},"author":5971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[31181,28061,31201,31211,24341,26501,31231],"industry":[],"product":[36571,36551,36601],"class_list":["post-72371","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-arcpy","tag-pop-ups","tag-print","tag-printing","tag-python","tag-services","tag-web-application","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-arcgis-online","product-developers"],"acf":{"short_description":"Great! I got your attention...\r\n\r\nThere are good and bad news. The bad news is that - inherently printing service does not support popups. ...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Great! I got your attention…<\/p>\n

There are good and bad news. The bad news is that – inherently printing service does not support popups. Popups are client side UI controls to display attributes for selected features. Sometimes attributes are not even shown in popups controls, instead they are shown on a tabular grid or some other way that a web designer prefers. Often when we ask about ‘printing popups’, we mean print the map and ‘attributes of the feature(s) that are selected or queried on the map’.<\/p>\n

Good news is that there are solutions. The post is about sharing two alternatives to tackle the issue.<\/p>\n

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Option #1: Using CustomTextElements and Web Application Builder Print Widget<\/h2>\n

This approach is simple and helpful in cases like when you want to print map with few information such as address, owner name, parcel-id for the selected parcel. And you need to define a layout for a specific layer or a specific task – it not meant to be applicable generically for all purposes.<\/p>\n

Here is what needs to be done to achieve that:<\/p>\n

a) Add CustomTextElements in the layout<\/h3>\n

CustomTextElements are text elements on the layout with names. To add a CustomTextElement in ArcMap layout…<\/p>\n

\"TextElement<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Choose Text from Insert menu.<\/li>\n
  2. Open the Properties page of the text element.<\/li>\n
  3. Switch to Size and Position tab.<\/li>\n
  4. Enter a name in Element Name.<\/li>\n
  5. Click OK button.<\/li>\n
  6. Repeat to add more text element as needed.<\/li>\n
  7. Finish rest of the layout design.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    b) Publish (or republish) a custom printing service with Get Layout Templates Info task<\/h3>\n

    Get Layout Templates Info task is an arcpy script that gets installed as part of 10.4. For previous versions, you can download the script from GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Step by step instructions are provided in ArcGIS Server help<\/a>\u00a0to publish a custom printing service with Get Layout Templates Info task.<\/p>\n

    c) Use Print Widget in the Web Application Builder<\/h3>\n

    Once you setup a print widget to use your custom printing service published in the previous section, the widget retrieves available CustomTextElements for each layout template by calling into Get Layout Templates Info task.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>When you choose a layout with CustomTextElements on the Print widget, they appear in the Advanced drop-down allowing users to enter new values for those CustomTextElements. Fill them up and click Print, the widget will include CustomTextElements name-value pairs in the request to the printing service and the service updates those text elements with those values passed in\u00a0and returns the output.<\/p>\n

    While this approach is very simple and no programming required, it has few challenges:<\/p>\n