How to customize the identify attribute to make a clickable URL?

Question

There is an attribute in one of our map layers that is actually a URL. How can I customize to make this attribute clickable and can navigate to this URL.

Thanks for your help!

Wei

weiliang · Answer

Thanks for your kindly reply, both Morten Nielsen and Scott Friedrich. I will try that.

Best,

Wei

SomeGISGuy · Answer

Put a hyperlink in your maptip (assuming you have an attribute called "urlString" thats a string with the url: Note binding expression will only work with Silverlight 4. If you are still using SL3, you will need to use the dictionary converter.

ScottFriedrich · Answer

Assuming you are using the DataGrid control to display the attributes, you can probably use DataGridTemplateColumn and bind the NavigateURL to your attribute.

Here is an example of using DataGridTemplateColumn :

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scmorris/archive/2008/03/27/defining-columns-for-a-silverlight-datagrid.aspx

Hope this helps,

Scott