Copy coordinates from "Plot Coordinates"

Carmen Durham

February 28, 2017 14:08

Hello,

 

This need is for an app the police use constantly in their vehicles. Migrating from old ESRI flex API app to the GC HTML Viewer.  

 

Police have to enter lat/longitude of events or collisions into a state/federal form for reporting.  In the flex app, you can plot the coordinates and copy the coordinates from the popup (using infowindow or infosymbol code - don't remember) to copy and paste the coordinates to something else.

 

I cannot seem to find a way to easily do this with the HTML Viewer.  Anyone have any ideas?  I would hate to have to create a workflow for something like this if there is another option.

 

As a comparison, the GC Silverlight Viewer has this capability through the use of the "Clicked Coordinates" item on the Coordinate Tools.

 

Thanks,

 

Carmen

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  Carmen Durham

  February 28, 2017 16:48

  Yeah!  I can answer my own question.

   

  The clicked coordinates are able to be copied from the "right-click" context menu on the map.  This should work for Police.

   

  _img_ alt="User-added image" src="https://latitudegeo--c.na53.content.force.com/servlet/rtaImage?eid=90760000000ChCm&feoid=Body&refid=0EM600000001SAl"_/_img_

   

  Carmen

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  Permanently deleted user

  February 28, 2017 22:21

  Carmen - wouldn't it be easier to do this in a workflow automatically? I am intending on having the lat/long created in my attributes after the point is created. Less work for the police and less room for error.

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  Carmen Durham

  September 12, 2017 12:41

  Sylvia,

   

  Police need to push this information to a different application run by State Law Enforcement to which we don't have access to populate from the GE HTML application.  They were either trying to retype the coordinates from a value provided by a GPS or copying and pasting from this application. 

   

  About the easiest thing I can do is create a button on the context menu to "copy latitude to clipboard" and "copy longitude to clipboard" and then tell them to use paste to push to the state application.  I am now looking into how I can "copy to a clipboard" with a workflow so that I can embed the negative sign.

   

  Thanks,

   

  carmen

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  Permanently deleted user

  October 25, 2017 04:27

  @Carmen : I have a feeling that workflows are executed on the server side and you'll have difficulties getting the client's clipboard.  

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  Permanently deleted user

  October 25, 2017 04:28

  bit off topic : has anyone managed to modify the colour scheme and font of that "plot coordinates" tool ?

  (it's the dark gray bubble with a big number in a circle and the X Y coordinates)

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