Config.XML: Widget Height and Width Elements Randomly Defaulting

Question

Over the past few months, I've manually setting the height and width attributes for the eSearch widget in my Config.XML and they just disappear at some point - the attribute tags just disappear, and the window defaults to its original size, which is too small and I get a scroll bar. Here's my entire widget container. I just added back in (for the 5th time or so), the height and width for the eSearch widget. I'm not sure what is making this reset. Any clues?

NicholasMcNamara · Answer

Well, it looks like it's a bug then. Thanks for the verification.

ScottMcGee · Answer

I too have experienced this issue, with Flex 3.1 and Flex 3.2. In my case, I've definitely identified the culprit as the Application Builder. I normally edit my config.xml and widget xml files in a text editor, outside of the Application Builder. But occasionally I do something in the App Builder, such as add a custom widget to my project, or add or remove operational layers, and then click the Save button to save my changes. Immediately after saving changes in the App Builder, I open my config.xml in a text editor and I notice that the , , and tags for some (not all) of my widgets have been either removed or replaced with default values. In particular, this frequently happens to my TOC, Print, and Navigation widgets. This happens so often that I have taken to saving backup copies of my tags in my config.xml file (the backed-up tags are commented out with so that they don't interfere with the normal operation of the web map). The backed-up tags don't get altered when I do something in the App Builder, so that way I can easily recover my custom , , and tags when the App Builder sets them to the default. But I have no idea why the App Builder is resetting some widgets to default values for .

rscheitlin · Answer

Nick,

Short of you using an old version of the xml accidentally I have no idea why this would happen then.