Clear Instructions to add map services to Flexviewer 2.0 Please

Ben,

Flex uses the rest end point and not the soap endpoint that the url you were attempting to use points to.

JoelShegrud

Fantastic Robert!

Thank you very much.

What is the /rest/ for? I copied the urls from the map service properties.

Ben

Ben,

You have everything but the rest portion of the url

url="http://Ben/arcgis/rest/services/SeverTry5/MapServer"

JoelShegrud

Hello,

I feel like I have followed all the instructions on this thread but I still can't see my layers displayed.

My data, map services, and server are all on one machine so I didn't think I needed a crossdomain.xml file. If I do I have no idea how it works.

This is this is the map part of my config.xml:

<map initialextent="-12517000 4980000 -12397000 5058300" top="40">
        <basemaps>
            <mapservice label="Streets" type="tiled" visible="true" alpha="1"
                        url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer"/>
            <mapservice label="Aerial" type="tiled" visible="false" alpha="1"
                        url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer"/>
            <mapservice label="Topo"    type="tiled" visible="false" alpha="1"
                        url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer"/>
        </basemaps>
        <operationallayers>
            <layer label="Boundaries and Places" type="tiled" visible="false"
                   url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Reference/World_Boundaries_and_Places_Alternate/MapServer"/>
     <layer label="Treatment areas" type="dynamic" visible="true" alpha="1"
     url="http://Ben/arcgis/services/SeverTry5/MapServer"/>
     <layer label="Web spots" type="dynamic" visible="true"
     url="http://Ben/arcgis/services/WebMap2/MapServer"/>
        </operationallayers>
    </map>

This should work I have followed all the instructions faithfully. Any idea what is missing?

Ben

DasaPaddock

Yes, the initial extent should be in the same spatial reference as the first base layer.

SteveHeadley

I too am having problems. With Flexviewer 1.0, it was easy to add your own data, just change the path. But when I do here, I can't see my data. My data is in NAD83, so I deleted the ESRI urls, and added my own. My service is cached. I have pasted the code below.

<map initialextent="-14083000 3139000 -10879000 5458000" top="40">
        <basemaps>

            <layer label="Basemap" type="tiled" visible="true" alpha="1"
                        url="http://map/ArcGIS/rest/services/PlanningAndZoning/CountyBasemap/MapServer"/>

        </basemaps>

        <operationallayers>


        </operationallayers>
    </map>

I got rid of the operational layers also. I didn't change the initial extent either. Should I have? I have pasted in my document information below from my rest services.

     Description:

Copyright Text:

Spatial Reference: 2248

Single Fused Map Cache: true

Tile Info:

Height: 512

Width: 512

DPI: 96

Levels of Detail: (# Levels: 10)

Level ID: 0 [Start Tile, End Tile]
Resolution: 208.333333333333
Scale: 240000
Level ID: 1 [Start Tile, End Tile]
Resolution: 104.166666666667
Scale: 120000
Level ID: 2 [Start Tile, End Tile]
Resolution: 52.0833333333333
Scale: 60000
Level ID: 3 [Start Tile, End Tile]
Resolution: 27.7777777777778
Scale: 32000
Level ID: 4 [Start Tile, End Tile]
Resolution: 13.8888888888889
Scale: 16000
Level ID: 5 [Start Tile, End Tile]
Resolution: 6.25
Scale: 7200
Level ID: 6 [Start Tile, End Tile]
Resolution: 4.16666666666667
Scale: 4800
Level ID: 7 [Start Tile, End Tile]
Resolution: 2.08333333333333
Scale: 2400
Level ID: 8 [Start Tile, End Tile]
Resolution: 1.04166666666667
Scale: 1200
Level ID: 9 [Start Tile, End Tile]
Resolution: 0.520833333333333
Scale: 600
Format: PNG8
Compression Quality: 0
Origin:
X: -120561100
Y: 148302500

Spatial Reference: 2248
Intial Extent:

XMin: 1368519.84395378
YMin: 582796.343062354
XMax: 1664088.24425541
YMax: 757519.38329201
Spatial Reference: 2248

Full Extent:

XMin: 1368519.84395378
YMin: 587798.959827192
XMax: 1664088.24425541
YMax: 752516.766527172
Spatial Reference: 2248

Units: esriFeet

Supported Image Format Types: PNG24,PNG,JPG,DIB,TIFF,EMF,PS,PDF,GIF,SVG,SVGZ,AI

(This is not as easy as advertised for "non programmers". You have to know a lot more, and better documentation is needed)

Hi,
I am not sure if we have a crossdomain.xml file, but I will find out. Hopefully that will solve the problem. Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it!

-Chaya

Chaya,

That is strange because I took the code I posted and modified my config.xml for FlexViewer 2.1 (I am using Flash Builder and the source code of the Viewer but should not matter) and I saw your county boundaries and some pink outline of something. Is your webserver on the same machine as the ArcGIS Server is? I noticed that you do not have a crossdomain.xml file on your ArcGIS Server and that is likely the issue.

http://map.incog.org/crossdomain.xml

Look here for direction:

http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/help/content/deploy_application.htm

Hi,
I probably should have explained everything in the beginning, sorry. I am using the pre-compiled FlexViewer 2.1. I can make other changes to the config.xml file (like change title, widgets, etc), save the file and then see my changes. But, whenever I have tried to add a mapservice layer, the only thing that I can get to show up is the name of the layer (Tulsa) underneath the more button. The actual layer does not display anything like it should. Yesterday I updated to the FlexViewer 2.1, but I was having the same problem with FlexViewer 2.0. I tried the code you posted with both FlexViewer 2.0 and FlexViewer 2.1 (I have both FlexViewer 2.0 and FlexViewer 2.1 saved on my machine) and I still could not get anything else to show up.

Thanks,
Chaya

Chaya,

Maybe you need to explain a little more on what you are actually doing. Sounds like you may be using the pre-compiled FlexViewer 2.1 if so and you already have it on the webserver and functioning than you only have to edit the config.xml and save your changes. If you are woking with the FlexViewer 2.1 source code than that is a little different.

Did it show county boundaries? I tried putting the layer under the operational layers, like you did and it still did not show anything in the map. Do I have to save my config.xml file in the folder Inetpub/wwwroot?

Thanks,
Chaya

Chaya,

This worked fine for me.

<map initialextent="-10786000 4272100 -10570000 4365100" top="40">
        <basemaps>
            <layer label="Streets" type="tiled" visible="true" alpha="1"
    url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer"/>
   <layer label="Aerial" type="tiled" visible="false" alpha="1"
    url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer"/>
   <layer label="Topo" type="tiled" visible="false" alpha="1"
    url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer"/>
        </basemaps>
        <operationallayers>
            <layer label="Tulsa" type="dynamic" visible="true" alpha="1"
    url="http://map.incog.org/ArcGIS/rest/services/cotweb/MapServer"/>
        </operationallayers>
    </map>

Hi,
I changed it to "dynamic" and it shows a white background, but nothing else.

Thanks,
Chaya

Chaya,

Your map service is not cached you can tell if a map service is cached or not by looking at the REST Services directory and you will see Single Fused Map Cache: true and then a listing of Tile Info:

So what you need to do is change the type to dynamic.

Hi,
I tried adding a map service to Flexviewer and I too could not get it to work. I know I must be missing a step somewhere but I am not sure where. Here is some of the code from the config.xml file:

<configuration>
    <title>ArcGIS Viewer for Flex</title>
    <subtitle>... using ArcGIS</subtitle>
    <logo>assets/images/transp.png</logo>
    <stylecolors>0xFFFFFF,0x333333,0x101010,0x000000,0xFFD700</stylecolors> 
    <stylealpha>0.8</stylealpha>

    
    <widget left="10" top="50"    config="widgets/Navigation/NavigationWidget.xml" url="widgets/Navigation/NavigationWidget.swf"/>
    <widget right="-2" bottom="-2" config="widgets/OverviewMap/OverviewMapWidget.xml" url="widgets/OverviewMap/OverviewMapWidget.swf"/>
    <widget right="20" top="55"    config="widgets/MapSwitcher/MapSwitcherWidget.xml" url="widgets/MapSwitcher/MapSwitcherWidget.swf"/>
    <widget left="0"   top="0"     config="widgets/HeaderController/HeaderControllerWidget.xml" url="widgets/HeaderController/HeaderControllerWidget.swf"/>
    <widget left="20" bottom="20" config="widgets/Coordinate/CoordinateWidget.xml" url="widgets/Coordinate/CoordinateWidget.swf"/>

    <map initialextent="-10786000 4272100 -10570000 4365100" top="40">

        <basemaps>
            <layer label="Streets" type="tiled" visible="true" alpha="1"
                        url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer"/>
            <layer label="Aerial" type="tiled" visible="false" alpha="1"
                        url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer"/>
            <layer label="Topo"    type="tiled" visible="false" alpha="1"
                        url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer"/>

     <layer label="Tulsa" type="tiled" visible="true" alpha="1"
   url="http://map.incog.org/ArcGIS/rest/services/cotweb/MapServer"/>

Thanks,
Chaya

BjornSvensson

Stacey, as for the specific concern on using 102100 and 3857 tiled services together - this should work fine in the Flex Viewer (and other applications written with the Flex API).

3857 is the official ID, while 102100 is the ID that Esri started using before 3857 came into existence. Since it is the same projection, the viewer will treat them as equivalent. Thus it is possible to overlay "3857" tiled services on top of "102100" tiled services. I'll make sure we include that information in our documentation.

If this isn't working for you, does the Flex Viewer work for you if you set your map service as the base map?

Roberts response was in regards to mixing Web Mercator and WGS84, which is different from mixing Web Mercator and Web Mercator.

StaceMaples

@#$%* WKID as the Basemaps?

You'll have to excuse my lack of surprise at this whole confluence of crappy documentation, implementation changes at every version, and ESRIUC Presentations that are just out-and-out dishonest, but I've been an ESRI user for nearly 20 years and this is nothing but the same old thing. I've said for years that anyone at an ESRIUC that utters the words "Out-of-the-box functionality" should be punched in the face, and this just puts the cherry on top of that cake.

I've been trying all day to figure out why this "New Exciting App that Doesn't require you to be a developer" won't accept my tilecached services and now that I've FINALLY found a GREAT post (kudos to Robert!) on the reason, I find that there doesn't seem to be a way to fix it! That's really awesome ESRI! Do you have a special lab there in Redlands dedicated to F!@#ing with people?

So, does anyone have any thoughts on how to create a tilecache service with a WKID of 102100, short of uninstalling ArcGIS 10 and reinstalling 9.3?

Got it! It was a combination of bad config.xml syntax and not having crossdomain.xml in the proper path. Thanks for the help! On to the giant TOC.

James,

You are mixing web-mercator basemap services from esri and your that is WGS-84 too different projections that is why you can not see yours. You either need to use esri wgs-84 map services like http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/ESRI_StreetMap_World_2D/MapServer instead.

Hmm still can't see our data. Here is my config.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<configuration>
    <httpproxy enabled="false">proxy.php</httpproxy>
    <title>NOAA's ENCDirect to GIS</title>
    <subtitle></subtitle>
    <logo>assets/images/noaa.png</logo>
    <stylesheet>lighterside.swf</stylesheet>

    
    <widget right="20" top="55"    config="widgets/MapSwitcher/MapSwitcherWidget.xml" url="widgets/MapSwitcher/MapSwitcherWidget.swf"/>
    <widget left="0"   top="0"     config="widgets/HeaderController/HeaderController.xml" url="widgets/HeaderController/HeaderControllerWidget.swf"/>
    <widget right="1" bottom="1" config="widgets/OverviewMap/OverviewMapWidget.xml" url="widgets/OverviewMap/OverviewMapWidget.swf"/>

    <map initialextent="-15083000 3139000 -4779000 4558000">
        <basemaps>
            <mapservice label="Streets" type="tiled" visible="true" alpha="1"
                        url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer"/>
           <mapservice label="Aerial" type="tiled" visible="false" alpha="1"
                        url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer"/>
           <mapservice label="Topo"    type="tiled" visible="false" alpha="1"
                        url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer"/>

      <mapservice label="ENCDirect"    type="dynamic" visible="true" alpha="1"
                        url="http://ocs-s-appd1:8399/arcgis/rest/services/AH_flex_tester/MapServer"/>

</basemaps>
        <operationallayers>
            <layer label="Boundaries and Places" type="tiled" visible="false"
                   url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Reference/World_Boundaries_and_Places_Alternate/MapServer"/>
            <layer label="Fires" type="feature" visible="false" alpha="1"
                   info="widgets/InfoTemplates/SimpleInfoWinWidget.swf"
                   infoconfig="widgets/InfoTemplates/IWT_Fires.xml"
                   url="http://sampleserver3.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Fire/Sheep/FeatureServer/0"/>
        </operationallayers>
    </map>

    
    
    <widgetcontainer layout="float">
        
        
        
        
        
        
        

        


</widgetcontainer>

</configuration>

James,

Change the type="feature" to type="dynamic" and make sure you have a crossdomain.xml file in the root of your ArcGISServer.

Okay I guessed config.xml and did that, can't see our data. Various questions:

So may type by default is dynamic correct? A tiled service would only be if you tiled all the layers in arccatalog before publishing the msd?

Also our Spatial Reference is :4326 (WGS 84) but really that's the only service I want to show to start.

Also here is the config.xml line:

<mapservice label="ENCDirect" type="feature" visible="true" alpha="1"
url="http://ocs-s-appd1:8399/arcgis/rest/services/AH_flex_tester/MapServer"/>

Jim,

By default the config.xml is the one that is used so you would want to modify that one or you could change the default by modifying the VeiwerContainer.mxml DEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE on line 49

Thanks Robert! I'm a little disappointed in the esri instructions which currently just say 'add your data in'. That's a little vague.

So question about the confix xml files. Which ones need to get the url to my service? Just config.xml or also config-all.xml, config.xml, config-classic, etc ?

Jim Hawks
NOAA
Office of Coast Survey

StephenLead

Robert,

Thanks very much for posting those instructions.

Steve

IanHamilton

Thanks very much Robert, as you say several variables and it seems they all have to be correct.

In my case it started working all of a sudden so I must have stumbled on the solution.

Very nice instructions which I'll have on my wall from now on.

Ian

Harold,

I forgot to explain the url method.

for your development machine:

1. Open the FlexViewers Project properties (right click FlexViewer in the package explorer window and choose properties).

2. Switch to the Rub/Debug Settings page

3. Select the launch configuration in the window (mine is index (2)) and click the edit button

4. Down in the url or path to launch uncheck Use default and add your config parameter there.

5. Apply/Ok that dialog and you are good to go

In your deployment machine you just add this to your url though the hyperlink to get to your site

?config=config.xml

HaroldBostic

As always, thanks for the respone, does the url way involve reading in a query string, if it is anything more complicated than that, I'll start another thread.

Thanks