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Passing Parameter to Flex Viewer

CurtNielsen

I would like to pass a parameter, parcel id, to flex viewer and have the map pan to that location. I have modified the Search widget to use a layer that we can search by parcel ID. Just want the same capability if I pass a parameter, paracle ID, to http://mynode/FlexViewer. Maybe something like http://mynode/FlexViewer?request=widget&version=2.1&WidgetName=Search&ParcelID=1234

Thank you!

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Noah Sager

Should work the same with 3.2 and above. Documentation is: Viewer URL parameters

I found this thread helpful for me as well.
Thread: Zoom to x and y from value in URL
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/15082-Zoom-to-x-and-y-from-value-in-URL?highlight=geographicToWebMercator

Erickson_Contract_Surveying_

Oops, my mistake! Yes, 2.5. I didn't realize that was a built in capability. I was trying to make that much more difficult!

Has anyone compiled this for 3.2 and above?

AshleyPeters

Oops, my mistake! Yes, 2.5. I didn't realize that was a built in capability. I was trying to make that much more difficult!

BjornSvensson

I'm currently using 2.6.

The last 2.x version was ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.5, are you sure you are using 2.6?

If you are using 2.5, you don't have to do anything in code. It's already part of the core, for example:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/live/index.html?extent=9965000,-129000,14206000,2733000

See the doc at http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/help/index.html#/Viewer_URL_parameters/01m300000029000000/

AshleyPeters

I've gone through this thread and have made the changes to the mapmanager.mxml suggested by Robert and Nathan. But, I received several errors and think this may be due to the changes that have occurred since version 2.2/2.3. I'm currently using 2.6. What changes do I need to make to the mapmanager.mxml so I can pass an extent through a URL?

Thanks for your help!

Ashley

JosieBock1

Disregard this post. I figured out what I did wrong.

Hopefully someone can help me with the whole passing a parameter to a flex viewer. I've been pouring over the forums and codes that people have posted regarding such and issue, and I've gotten my code to compile without errors. However, when I enter the query parameters my site doesn't perform the search. It just pulls up to it's normal extent with nothing selected. If someone has some time to help me troubleshoot my problem I would greatly appreciate it.

I am attaching some of the code pages for reference. The url that I use for testing is: http://gis-server.greatriv.com/christiancoflex2/index.html?q=DataViewer!70*v=110515000000007000

Again, I would be grateful for any help with this.

JB

JosieBock1

Hopefully someone can help me with the whole passing a parameter to a flex viewer. I've been pouring over the forums and codes that people have posted regarding such and issue, and I've gotten my code to compile without errors. However, when I enter the query parameters my site doesn't perform the search. It just pulls up to it's normal extent with nothing selected. If someone has some time to help me troubleshoot my problem I would greatly appreciate it.

I am attaching some of the code pages for reference. The url that I use for testing is: http://gis-server.greatriv.com/christiancoflex2/index.html?q=DataViewer!70*v=110515000000007000

Again, I would be grateful for any help with this.

JB

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AnshulMantri1

Thanks a lot Robert finally i achieved it by ViewerContainer.urlConfigParams.yourURLVal... 🙂

Thanks for u r support
Regards
Anshul

What i have done is declared a blank variable in my WidgetConfig as below
<myVar></myVar>

Then on init() i accept the value and assign it to a string.
Bind this value onto a text field.

and my url will be index.html?config=config-myWidget.xml&myVar=123

Is this the rite way...?

AnshulMantri1

What i have done is declared a blank variable in my WidgetConfig as below
<myVar></myVar>

Then on init() i accept the value and assign it to a string.
Bind this value onto a text field.

and my url will be index.html?config=config-myWidget.xml&myVar=123

Is this the rite way...?

Anshul,

I thought that it was obvious that yes you would call ViewerContainer.urlConfigParams.yourURLVal from your widgets init function.

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Anshul,

I thought that it was obvious that yes you would call ViewerContainer.urlConfigParams.yourURLVal from your widgets init function.

AnshulMantri1

Do i have to add this

ViewerContainer.urlConfigParams.yourURLVal

in the init function of my Widget..?

or can u give a simple eg for say my URL is

index.html?config=config-mywidget.xml&yourURLVal=hello

in above case how will i get value for this yourURLVal inside my widget init() function ?

Anshul,

OK to do that use this line of code
ViewerContainer.urlConfigParams.yourURLVal
So your url would be something like
index.html?config=config-mywidget.xml&yourURLVal=hello
The viewer is programmed to decode and store url parameters in the urlConfigParams object.

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Anshul,

OK to do that use this line of code

ViewerContainer.urlConfigParams.yourURLVal

So your url would be something like

index.html?config=config-mywidget.xml&yourURLVal=hello

The viewer is programmed to decode and store url parameters in the urlConfigParams object.

AnshulMantri1

Thanks
Robert

Now that i m done opening a widget of my own choice, how can i pass few values into it.

In my case on click of html page i fire a URL with first parameter as myWidgetName and the second parameter is a value, now how do i accept this in say any of the field of the opened Widget.

Definitely on init() of this widget i will add add this value to the field. But i want to know HOW can i accept this value from URL ?

Regards
Anshul

Anshul,

All the Documentation for the Flex Viewer can be found here:

http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/index.html

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Anshul,

All the Documentation for the Flex Viewer can be found here:

http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/index.html

AnshulMantri1

Thats great..

Robert can u send some link from where i can get some kind of documentation for this kind of configuration.

Thanks for the help..

Warm regards
Anshul

Anshul,

All the same stuff you have in your Config.xml but make sure the widget that you are wanting to load is set to preload="open".

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Anshul,

All the same stuff you have in your Config.xml but make sure the widget that you are wanting to load is set to preload="open".

AnshulMantri1

I have only two xml i.e

Config.xml and Config-all.xml

If i need to have config-MyWidgetName.xml then in that case wat shud i include in that..?

AnshulMantri1

I have only two xml i.e

Config.xml and Config-all.xml

Anshul,

OK silly question but do you actually have a config-MyWidgetName.xml file in your Flex Viewer??? If you have not yet created one than that is your issue.

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Anshul,

OK silly question but do you actually have a config-MyWidgetName.xml file in your Flex Viewer??? If you have not yet created one than that is your issue.

AnshulMantri1

OK for this URL to work
http://gis.calhouncounty.org/FlexViewer2.4/index.html?config=config-identify.xml

Wat would u add in the config file. As i am accessing the same
http://servername/index.html?config=config-MyWidgetName.xml

but getting the attached error.
My objective is :

when i click or place a call from any Html page i will send a URL with

http://servername/index.html?... here i will have to add a parameter to open a widget of my choice.

Anshul,

You have me a little confused now... Say you want to open the viewer with the identify widget opened then you would have a url like this:

http://gis.calhouncounty.org/FlexViewer2.4/index.html?config=config-identify.xml
and in the config-identify.xml it would have preload="open" but if you did not want the identify widget opened then you would not use that particular config file (config-identify.xml), you would use another.

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RobertScheitlin__GISP

Anshul,

You have me a little confused now... Say you want to open the viewer with the identify widget opened then you would have a url like this:

http://gis.calhouncounty.org/FlexViewer2.4/index.html?config=config-identify.xml
and in the config-identify.xml it would have preload="open" but if you did not want the identify widget opened then you would not use that particular config file (config-identify.xml), you would use another.

AnshulMantri1

So wat do i have to add in my config for achieving say for eg :

http://Server/index.html?identify

Where i don't want the identify widget to have this preload="open".

Because my application will be calling this widget based on need basis. So how can i achieve this.

Regards
Anshul

Anshul,

Before I point you down the road of making changes to the source code let me make sure you are aware of the ability that is built into Flex Viewer for loading a particular config file from the url. Basically in your scenario you could have multiple config files on your server. Take for example this url of mine that loads the viewer with my eSearch widget preloaded.

http://gis.calhouncounty.org/FlexViewer2.4/index.html?config=config-eSearch.xml

and the same exact viewer using a different config file to preload my TOC Widget.

http://gis.calhouncounty.org/FlexViewer2.4/index.html?config=config-toc.xml

AnshulMantri1

Sorry, was bit confused with the threads going on...
Now how can i achieve as below:

So wat do i have to add in my config for achieving say for eg :

http://Server/index.html?identify

Where i don't want the identify widget to have this preload="open".

Because my application will be calling this widget based on need basis. So how can i achieve this.

Regards
Anshul

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Anshul,

Before I point you down the road of making changes to the source code let me make sure you are aware of the ability that is built into Flex Viewer for loading a particular config file from the url. Basically in your scenario you could have multiple config files on your server. Take for example this url of mine that loads the viewer with my eSearch widget preloaded.

http://gis.calhouncounty.org/FlexViewer2.4/index.html?config=config-eSearch.xml

and the same exact viewer using a different config file to preload my TOC Widget.

http://gis.calhouncounty.org/FlexViewer2.4/index.html?config=config-toc.xml

AnshulMantri1

Robert,

My Query is opening a simple widget by URL.

what i m trying is -

http://Server/index.html?widgetId=18

When i run the application, no widget is open, Can u please suggest how can we open a widget by placing a call in the URL after index.html?"..."

Regards
Anshul

NathanEnge

Nathan,

Why are you trying it this old way? The eSearch Widget has this built in now with not changes to the map manager code.

some widgets are not moved to 2.4 yet, so this particular app deployment is still in 2.3 untill i fix the code for some of the widget it uses...

i figured out the problem is specific to that layer. all other layers query fine.

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Nathan,

Why are you trying it this old way? The eSearch Widget has this built in now with not changes to the map manager code.

NathanEnge

Hey there, having a bit of an issue. It seems like the query works:
http://www.mapservices.ca/aditya/index.html?q=Westbank/Westbank!7&v=MAPIT.548.2

however, the selection zoom and selected graphics are placed in the wrong place in the world.
The REST url for Mapservice number 7 is here:
http://www.mapservices.ca/ArcGIS/rest/services/Westbank/Westbank/MapServer/7

If you go to just the application itself you will see that it is nowhere near the 1 degree parallels.

Whats happening here?

CarolineCochrane

thanks so very much. problem solved! 🙂

Caroline

RobertScheitlin__GISP

Caroline,

Try commenting out this line:

popUpRenderer.setStyle("skinClass", widgets.eSearch.PopUpRendererSkin);

In the showHighlight function.

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