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Is it possible to include information about relations in the HTML popup in ArcMap?

I have two tables, one with points (Columns: ID, Name) and one with events about those points (Columns: PointID, Type, Year). The point table is related to the event table.

Now when I open an HTML popup there is no information about the relation in it. I would like it to display a list of all related events. For instance, with "Events" in the property name column and something like this in the value column:

  • 2005: Created
  • 2008: Rediscovered
  • 2014: Destroyed

Is this possible to do? Is it possible to do something similar (like linking to a HTML popup for the event)? How would I go about to accomplish this?

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  • Is this question about linking the tables or display the information?
    – wittich
    Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 9:40
  • It's about displaying the information. Sorry for the lack of clarity.
    – Anders
    Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 10:02
  • Interesting question...this is not possible by simply using the HTML Pop up tab in Layer Properties. You can hyperlink to individual features. What you could do is create a duplicate point per event change and change the Layer Name and/or Display Name to incorporate the date and status.
    – spk578
    Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 10:33
  • Thank you for the reply! It surely helps to know that it is not possible to do it the way I was planning (so I can stop trying...). I will look into your alternative.
    – Anders
    Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 10:45
  • I think the simplest way is to setup a little server script what returns the wanted information depending on the PointID. There are also some possibilities with XML. Check the standard XSL template...
    – wittich
    Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 12:26

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Okay I tried a little bit more to use the XSL template. There are some ways to include information and displaying them depending on the PointID. Here a little example. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
    <xsl:variable name="ignoreFieldNames" select="'|OBJECTID|Shape|Shape_Length|Shape_Area|ATTACHMENTID|REL_OBJECTID|CONTENT_TYPE|ATT_NAME|DATA_SIZE|DATA|'"/>
    <xsl:variable name="headerRowColor" select="'#9CBCE2'"/>
    <xsl:variable name="alternateRowColor" select="'#D4E4F3'"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;overflow:auto;background:#FFFFFF;">
                <table style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,Times;font-size:12px;text-align:left;width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;padding:3px 3px 3px 3px">
                    <tr style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;background:{$headerRowColor}">
                        <td style="font-size:16px;color:#ffffff;">
                            <xsl:text>PointID </xsl:text>
                            <xsl:value-of select="FieldsDoc/Title" />
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td>
                            <xsl:choose>
                                <xsl:when test="FieldsDoc/Title = '1'">
                                    <xsl:text>Event details of event: </xsl:text>
                                    <xsl:value-of select="FieldsDoc/Title"/>
                                </xsl:when>
                                <xsl:when test="FieldsDoc/Title = '2'">
                                    <xsl:text>Event details of event: </xsl:text>
                                    <xsl:value-of select="FieldsDoc/Title"/>
                                </xsl:when>
                                <xsl:otherwise>
                                    <xsl:text>No event details available</xsl:text>
                                </xsl:otherwise>
                            </xsl:choose>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </table>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Hope that gives some ideas. There is also the XSL command <xsl:import href="file.xsl"/> but I'm not sure if ArcGIS supports that, at least I couldn't make it work.

I had also trouble to apply changes in the XSL stylesheet. There for I had to make the change, save and close the MXD project file and reopen the MXD file.

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  • Great! This looks like the kind of thing I needed.
    – Anders
    Commented Jul 1, 2015 at 10:41

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