topic Re: Advanced Quality Printing Tutorial in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions

Advanced Quality Printing Tutorial

PaulGrimes — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:50:35 GMT

Hi Guys,
Apologies if I have posted in the wrong place, I had options of Python Forum, Geoprocessing Forum etc. but I have a 2 part question.

1) Link
I have completed this tutorial and it works Adavnced Quaity Printing - to a point I cannot seem to pass an extent or a scale to the template, it just defaults to the scale and extent the template is saved at .... How do I overcome this, I know it must be simple, but I just dont see it. It creates perfect PDF's but not to the viewer display scale or extent.

2) On a flex note the end of the tutorial gives you the .mxml's for creating a simpel app to use the gp print task, this works well and its exactly what I need - except I need it as a widget - is there a tutorial of how to make a widget from an app. Please excuse the poorly crafted question, I'm not experienced with creating new widgets in flex, I have only ever deployed and customised them.

Any help as always is appreciated

Paulg

Re: Advanced Quality Printing Tutorial

Anonymous User — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:48:28 GMT

The landing page of the Flex Viewer Resource Center has some videos. Also check out the developer help concepts as you'll see instructions for creating widgets.

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/flex-viewer/index.html

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/flex-viewer/concepts/index.html#/Getting_started_for_developers/01m30000001q000000/

Re: Advanced Quality Printing Tutorial

PaulGrimes — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:34:39 GMT

Thanks for the response ... I reviewed both links and I'm going to give the widget a shot tomorrow, thanks for the link. On the python extent and scale with the webmap, I sorted this after I reviewed the other link and the instructions carefully I made a typo on the Web_Map_as_JSON Display Name - again thanks....

On a similar path - The process is great fast and cracking quality, but how can I get Rasters into the process?.. For testing I put in a raster into the template, and the serivice. I create the PDF and the raster is created , but is renamed IMAGE and is placed at the bottom of the layer list -same is true for multiple images. I tried getting the 'rasters = arcpy.ListRasters(mxd)' list and trying not to remove these - so many different ways but never managed to get a correct result - as in and image with the corrrect name and location in the TOC in the PDF.

any hints please - i'd like to crack this soon

cheers

Paulg

Re: Advanced Quality Printing Tutorial

JeffersonFerreira_Ferreira — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:38:43 GMT

Hi all,

I've completed this tutorial right now, but as our colleague above, I don't know how to deploy it as a widget. The principal question is: How can I build a XML?

I read the links, but still have this issue of build the configuration file for the compiled code.
Any ideas will be appreciated.

Regards