ESRI Search Widget activeSourceIndex Usage

Question

I am looking for some example of setting the default search service to all(feature layer and esri geocoding). but I also care about the order of the results returned. I suspect this is accomplished using the activeSource parameter of the search widget. But have not been able to find an example of this implemented. I have tried implementing like this.. var searchWidget = new Search({ container: "searchDiv", view: view, allPlaceholder: "Places or Tyler Communities", activeSource: 0, sources: [{ featureLayer: { url: "https://services5.arcgis.com/6gTxIFMxZdWxCrVQ/arcgis/rest/services/...", popupTemplate: { // autocasts as new PopupTemplate() title: "{customer} is Tyler Connected Community!", overwriteActions: true } }, activeSourceIndex: 1, searchFields: ["customer", "city", "state"], displayField: "customer", exactMatch: false, outFields: ["*"], name: "Tyler Communities", placeholder: "example: city of birmingham", zoomScale: 500000 }]}); and also like this... searchWidget.activeSource = 0; But both return this error... dojo.js:340 Uncaught TypeError: [accessor] cannot assign to read-only property 'activeSource' of esri.widgets.Search.SearchViewModel Any help is greatly appreciated.

rscheitlin · Answer

Noah,

I have not seen any example of it being implemented either. It is a simple property that you set either in the constructor or after creating the widget instance, so nothing special to show in code.

NoahHuntington2 · Answer

Hi Robert. Thank you for the response.  Good to know I was getting close.  I still have not seen activeSourceIndex implemented.  Can you provide an example?

rscheitlin · Answer

Noah,

As you can see from your error the activeSource property is readonly

activeSourceFeatureLayer|Locatorreadonly

what you need to use is activeSourceIndex which will let you set the number/index of the source.

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/api-reference/esri-widgets-Search.html#activeSourceIndex