need help with ArcGIS API Javascript sidebar

Question

This is an assignment but I am really stuck and when I can work on the assignment my professor is asleep so I can't get help until the next day (tough when the assignment is due in 2 days and you are only 1/3rd done).  Anyway, I created a map with 3 layers.  One is a basemap and 2 show election information for two different candidates.  I got that part of the map to work but I am having trouble incorporating a clickable sidebar.  Right now I get no map with the sidebar titles at the top left of the page. I attached my code.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

lesson5.txt.zip

BenStewart · Answer

The onRowClickHandler is firing, just not doing anything. You get the objectiID in the first line, but after that I am a bit confused about what you are doing.

I would try to use that OBJECTID to make a selection query, then select the features you want using a query feature. You could then set up a dojo handler to handle selection complete on the layer  var query = new esri.tasks.Query();
  query.where= "OBJECTID = " + clickedStatesID 
  featureLayer.selectFeatures(query,esri.layers.FeatureLayer.SELECTION_NEW);

LisaD · Answer

One last thing - everything works now except the "clickable" sidebar.  The assignment calls for either getting an info window when you click the map or when you click the name in the sidebar.  I already have the clicking the map right but the over-achiever in me would like to get the sidebar to work.  My code is at the same page indicated above.  I know this has to do with the query and defining the query but I don't understand exactly what the query does so I can't work it out.  Any help would be appreciated.

LisaD · Answer

I am attempting to use states as that third layer so the grid is not pulling data from the candidate layers.  I want it to pull from the 3rd layer for the sidebar and infoWindow.