Coordinate Tools
I'm currently using Essentials 3.4 and Silverlight viewer 1.2 for my sites. I was wondering if there is a way to add to the coordinate system drop down list on the clicked coordinates tool? I need to add WKID 3734 in addition to the default, DD & DMS. If so, where do I start? If not, can this be added to the product enhancement list?
Thank you.
Monica
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Hi Monica,
This can be done by editing your Viewer.xml file to override the default configuration for the CoordinateTool.
Your Viewer.Defaults.xml file will contain the default setup for the tool, which will look like this:
<CoordinateTool>
<Views>
<View Region="CoordinateToolsRegion" Type="Geocortex.EssentialsSilverlightViewer.CoreModules.CoordinateTool.CoordinateToolView" />
<View Id="CustomCoordinateView" Region="ModalWindowRegion" Type="Geocortex.EssentialsSilverlightViewer.CoreModules.CoordinateTool.CustomCoordinateView" Visible="false" />
<View Id="MouseCoordinatesView" Region="CoordinatesRegion" Type="Geocortex.EssentialsSilverlightViewer.CoreModules.CoordinateTool.CoordinatesView" Visible="true" />
</Views>
<Configuration GeometryServiceUri="{GeometryServiceUri}">
<CoordinateSystems>
<CoordinateSystem DisplayName="Web Mercator" WKID="102100" NumDigits="6" DisplayAsDMS="false" DisplayAsLatLon="false" />
<CoordinateSystem DisplayName="Lat/Lon (DD)" WKID="4326" NumDigits="4" DisplayAsDMS="false" DisplayAsLatLon="true" Default="true" />
<CoordinateSystem DisplayName="Lat/Lon (DMS)" WKID="4326" NumDigits="4" DisplayAsDMS="true" DisplayAsLatLon="false" />
</CoordinateSystems>
</Configuration>
</CoordinateTool>If you copy this text configuration into the Modules element for your Viewer.xml, you can add your coordinate system to the CoordinateSystems element and it will show up in the coordinate systems drop down. Example:
<CoordinateSystem DisplayName="Ohio North" WKID="3734" DisplayAsDMS="false" DisplayAsLatLon="false" />
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Hi Jason
I would have also thought that this would apply if the other coordinate systems were added to the viewer.defaults.xml so that I only needed to make the change once.
Unfortunately the change that I have made to the viewer.defaults.xml is not flowing though to the viewer
The question is should it? This is using GE3.10 and SL16
Thanks
Ralph
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Hi to all
after reviewing this it is likely that there is more than one viewer.defaults.xml present, the one in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\viewerVersion\config and another in a location with a confusing path/URI.
<ExternalConfigs>
<ExternalConfig Uri="../../../../../../Templates/SilverlightViewer_1_6/VirtualDirectory/Viewer.Defaults.xml" />
</ExternalConfigs>In all likelihood my changes have been ignored due to changing the wrong file.
Such a path is decidedly awkward to figure out its location so does anyone know any reason not to point the uri at http://server/viewerVersion/config/viewer.defaults.xml?
Thanks
Ralph
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Hi to all
Once I edited the file at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Latitude Geographics\Geocortex Essentials\Default\REST Elements\Sites\Templates\Temp\SilverlightViewer_1_6\VirtualDirectory
the CoordSystems showed up perfectly in the Viewer. It would just have been nice if the file at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\viewerVersion\config was consistently read and copied to the above temp location
Thanks
Ralph
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Thank you everyone for the help. We were able to find the correct configuration file but our coordinates are only reading Northing coordinates for both the x & Y instead of Northing and Easting. Any ideas why this would be the case?
Monica
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We ran into one more issue. The viewer keeps reverting back to it's original state. Is there more than one configuration file we need to update to make sure the modification stays?
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Is your original config inheriting from the viewer.defaults.xml or is it a standalone config?
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Ralph you're a genius! Thanks
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Hi Justin
While the genius tag would be great (and overly generous) it more comes down to a matter of reading the manual (or knowledge base).
Check out this: https://support.geocortex.com/how-to-edit-your-viewerdefaultsxml
Regards
Ralph
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Monica,
Did you figure out the northings only problem?
thanks.
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Yes. Our programmer contacted the help desk and they walked her through how to fix it. She has since left our company so I'm not sure what she did.
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Whelp....
Thanks for the quick reply.
Maybe someone from Geocortex can answer this for everyone...
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Hi Monica,
we track all the cases in support, so you could create a new case and ask us to look at what was previously done in that old case.
regards,
Edmond0 -
This is what I found in an email chain between the programmer and myself...
It looks like Edmond took care of the ticket.
The follow up email to this explained that it was fixed so this is the last bread crumb that i have short of opening the ticket below.
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From: Edmond Duggan [mailto:support@latitudegeo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 12:54 PM
To:
Subject: RE: Changes revert in Veiwer (Essesntials 3.8) [ ref:_00D30nQM._50060LId0s:ref ]
Hi Rebecca,
My apologies, based on the brief case notes I assumed that you were editing viewer.xml and not Viewer.defaults.xml.
Editing the values in Viewer.defaults.xml does take a little work, as the changes must be incorporated into the VTE file.
The original case description also notes that you followed a blog posting. Were you looking at the knowledge base article "How to edit your Viewer.Defaults.xml"? It can be found here: https://support.geocortex.com/how-to-edit-your-viewerdefaultsxml
If so, the first section of last step in the article might lead you to believe that making the change is all that is required. Actually, if you read further there are a couple more steps to ensure the system deploys the changes immediately.
However, if you are following these instructions and it's not working, please send me the VTE file and a good time to call. We can troubleshoot the system via a screen share.
regards,
Edmond
PS: The changes in the web.config should be left in your system, as they prevent updates in Manager not getting deployed in your system.0 -
Thanks.
Yeah, I got all that.
My coordinate system is showing up in the list, but it is displaying only northing for both values ( and is actually not updating when I click).
Can't believe we are the only two to have this problem....
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We upgraded our test environment to 4.0 and had to re-apply the same update.
Our programmer provided the following information:
From Jin Zhang:
I have added Ohio State Plane Coordinate setting back to the viewer.
To make the Viewer app read this Coordinate setting, the viewer.defaults.xml file(not the viewer.xml from the site) hiding inside of the Geocortex.Essentials.SilverlightViewer.Template.2.1.vte need to be modified (this file can be found on the server at \Program Files (x86)\Latitude Geographics\Geocortex Essentials\Default\REST Elements\Sites\Templates\). Here is a Geocortex support document explaining how to do this.
http://support.geocortex.com/how-to-edit-your-viewerdefaultsxml
Hope this helps.
Monica
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Put the following line of code inside of <CoordinateSystems> tag. For example:
<CoordinateSystems>
<CoordinateSystem DisplayName="Ohio State Plane" WKID="3734" NumDigits="2" DisplayAsDMS="false" DisplayAsLatLon="true" />
</CoordinateSystems>
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I got the export coordinate working but when I export to CSV file format, it exports like this with 57° 0' 23.0" N with special character infront of degree. How can this be fixed? 
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Welcome to the nightmare of character encoding. The degree symbol is "0xB0" in WIN-1252. When it is encoded in UTF-8 it becomes "0xC2 0xB0". "0xC2" is the "Â" character. You can double-check this in Notepad++ by changing the encoding.
It looks like Excel is reading this as "ANSI" by default. There is a way in the registry to alter this behavior but the easiest is to use the IMPORT command in Excel and set the File Origin as UTF-8.
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