Latest Contributions by KevinMacLeod1

‎12-16-2014

When a map layer has multiple classes or symbology symbols, such as a soil layer, it does not appear on the Legend in a print result from the Print dijit in the Javascript web API web map viewer. For example, a soil layer may have 30 different soil types. However, usually a user will zoom to a block or a neighborhood, with only one or a few different soil types present on the map. Currently, soil is not displayed at all in the Legend in the Javascript viewer. However, in the Legend options on the MXD in ArcMap 10.2.2 I noticed there is a checkbox that at first I thought would solve this problem. .... First, right click on the Legend, in the MXD, go to Properties... and the Items tab, then select the specific layer (i.e. Soil). The top checkbox states "Only show classes that are visible in the current map extent." It does exactly what we would want, in the map MXD. So for saving a map in ArcMap to a PDF or to print, this works great. But what if we want this service to be accessed through a javascript api web map? The Soil legend simply doesn't show up, because it has 30 different symbols. I thought I could click this checkbox in the Legend in the Print Template MXD, but no, you can't. It's greyed out. I called ESRI Tech Support and they said that indeed, it is not supported. But that it is a good idea to implement and to submit to ArcGIS Ideas. Does anyone else think this is useful? And understand what I am requesting? I have a submitted a duplicate post here I apologize but I looked briefly and didnt' see anything like it. Thank you, Kevin

‎12-16-2014

It's 2014 almost 2015 still the same problem. If you have a platform with 10.1 is should either work with 2012 or AT LEAST let you install the .NET SDK, and not just fail just because you don't have VS 2010 installed. They should have at minimum released a patch to allow the SDK to install without requiring VS 2010. Our use case, for example, is Windows 8.1 but developing an Add In for Arc 10.1 So it's a catch-22. Classic ESRI. I wish a GIS software competitor would come along and force them to listen to customers.

‎12-16-2014

Michael it does not seem likely ESRI will change it. Ultimately it would be good to see ESRI provide an Identify widget in the API that tracked visible layers and had capability to identify all visible layers. But for now you must build your own widget. I built an Identify that does this (with much help from Tracy, Adrian and everyone else here..thank you all). It works with the AGS JS TOC Widget mentioned here: MapViewer - Savannah Area GIS Feel free to use all the code. Just let me know if you find any bugs.

‎12-15-2014

artb4mathyour idea of organization with icons and hierarchies like the Apple Site is a great idea though, if we end up stuck with GeoNet. Apple is an example of a good site and good site nav design. What's also instructive about their site though also is its interface hasn't changed in over a DECADE! It has slowly evolved and added slickness but the overall navigation has remained. Perhaps just slickifying the old forum would have been better than attempting to shoehorn GeoNet into a vBulletin forum style.

‎12-15-2014

The old forums were organized, effective, had a good interface on the desktop, and provided basic forum functionality. They were on a time-tested platformed used by many other sites and companies. This is actually a case where a good idea might be to actually bring the old forum back. Just completely scrap this new site. Regardless of how much time and money went into it. You have to know when to pull the plug. Seems like the overwhelming majority of customers hate the new site, but like the old site. Time for New Coke to go away, bring back Classic Coke. We liked the taste and we'll keep buying it. What is the business case with ESRI keeping this site? Step 1. Social media stuff Step 2. ???? Step 3. Profit!

‎12-15-2014

Anyone have an example that is clean-cut and/or documented, that has a print task or print dijit that includes an Attribute table in the printout? We're looking to include parcel info on the printout. So, if a user selects a parcel, then click a special print tool button, it fires the print task and includes the attribute table with the info for that parcel (that polygon). Anyone have a good example? I looked and oddly enough couldn't find one. I hope too that it's a fairly simple thing and perhaps works with the print Dijit which I currently have working. Or, perhaps this involves working on the Print Template MXDs? We have our own 10.2 ArcGIS Server if that helps and I can edit the print templates if I need to.

‎10-31-2014

Just wanted to drop back and say thanks again, your solutions worked perfectly! Thanks Kelly and to the rest of the great folks here.

‎10-30-2014

Our layers are turned off in the MXD and users turn them on in the AGS TOC. So, so far no layers are appearing in the Legend. I will have to figure that out. Thank you all for the useful info here though! Especially the tip about only showing smyobls in the map extent. But I have another question. We have a parcel layer. If a user selects a parcel with our Parcel search tool, I want to display the attribute info for the parcel in a corner of the printout from the Print dijit. Or if we need to use PrintTask I guess we can do that. Does anyone have a sample or a link to a site that does this? Displays attribute data in the print output?

‎10-30-2014

Owen, yes I agree I think the site is improving over time, things are getting added back and I'm learning where content is. Personally I still feel it is less "clean" and organized. But yes, I always thought it would be nice if we had as simple dropdown menu in the Documentation for APIs that let us select the version of the API to view Docs for. They are all there. It's just you have to download SDKs for each version to view. Just throw it all onto the web dir and link to each one with a dropdown, hey even I could do that. Just a thought..

‎10-29-2014

Thank you Owen, but I am interested in the complete SDK since it comes with the documentation as of that version. ESRI can you please re-add all JS versions of the SDK for download? & Thank you. Sidenote: I posted a similar diatribe on the GeoNet forum... Sorry for the flame but here goes.. Personally, I would say the new site design and forum are... not an improvement. The old site was good, and had good interface and navigation. Like Apple.com for example. The new site is.. not as good as the old site, to my use pattern. I truly hope ESRI adjusts course a bit on the radical website redesign. And I mean well because the ESRI dev team, forum staff, and support staff, and of course user community, are all awesome, and I've learned almost everything I know from here. I just wish I knew where everything was still on the site! I'm trying to adapt but it keeps changing and seems inconsistent so far between different pages and areas of the site. My 2 cents, I don't mean to derail my own thread. Hope ESRI reposts the old APIs.

‎10-28-2014

Hi all, Where can I download v 2.6 of the API? ESRI downgraded their site, again. Thanks!

‎09-03-2014

This might be a solution. We are also making a site with Bootstrap 3 in a MS MVC 5 template with the JS API 3.10. We have jQuery loaded. We also have a modal (our "disclaimer") slide down so the users have to click "Agree" to use the site. We are liking Bootstrap! If I am understanding right, does this sound like your use case? We found this solution gave us a full screen map div. It grabs viewport width and height and sets the map div CSS to this. Plain vanilla JS could do it but jQuery makes it concise. <script> $(document).ready(function () { $('#disclaimer').modal('show'); resizeDiv(); }); window.onresize = function (e) { resizeDiv(); } function resizeDiv() { var vpw = $(window).width(); var vph = $(window).height(); $('#mapDiv').css({ 'height': vph + 'px', 'width': vpw + 'px' }); } </script>

‎09-03-2014

This might be a solution. We are also making a site with Bootstrap 3 in a MS MVC 5 template with the JS API 3.10. We have jQuery loaded. We also have a modal (our "disclaimer") slide down so the users have to click "Agree" to use the site. We are liking Bootstrap! If I am understanding right, does this sound like your use case? We found this solution gave us a full screen map div. It grabs viewport width and height and sets the map div CSS to this. Plain vanilla JS could do it but jQuery makes it concise. <script> $(document).ready(function () { $('#disclaimer').modal('show'); resizeDiv(); }); window.onresize = function (e) { resizeDiv(); } function resizeDiv() { var vpw = $(window).width(); var vph = $(window).height(); $('#mapDiv').css({ 'height': vph + 'px', 'width': vpw + 'px' }); } </script>

‎08-22-2014

Hi Kelly, Thank you for the reply. Ideally I want a button with the Printer icon and no text anywhere. After a user selects the Print page size/orientation in the dropdown, or just clicks the main button, it opens a new window with the print. Nice and clean. (new window event attached to releasing the click of the menu selection). No "Printout" link text. Hm. I will read your comment and hopefully construct such a feature. So far, modifying the strings of text works perfectly. Thank you. That documentation is good. However I copied your code to the ESRI sandbox. I noted your change to your local proxy and different print task, so I reinserted the two print lines from the ESRI print sample: app.printUrl = " var permitUrl = "http://sampleserver6.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/PoolPermits/MapServer/1"; "; esriConfig.defaults.io.proxyUrl = "/proxy"; The Print button has its regular text and then disappears after being clicked. When the code at this fiddle Edit fiddle - JSFiddle is pasted into the ESRI sandbox. I'll keep working on it... For now to stick the icon "in" the button I might just put the button in a div along with the png file over it and position them with the absolute tag. And set all three text strings to a few spaces with .

‎08-22-2014

Perhaps on Fiddle. But, left that in for esri Sandbox which I guess allows you to use ESRI's proxy... I just put it into Fiddle for convenience. But on the ESRI sandbox, the same thing happens: print button has "Print" text, you click it, then nothing in it, then it disappears. Same for my local code, which I had already set up a proxy for, so print could work. (IIS / .Net Proxy) I'll keep testing..

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