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Overview Map not working with BingLayers in FlexViewer

ScottBeaumont — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:23:30 GMT

In the beta 2.0 FlexViewer, I've changed the config.xml file to use bing layers instead of the default tiled layers from ArcGISOnlie. Everything works great, except for the overview map. When I use the Bing layers, the overview map is blank. Any thoughts? I've posted the map config section below where I changed the basemap layers to bing.

<map initialextent="-14083000 3139000 -10879000 5458000">
        <basemaps>
            <mapservice label="Streets" type="bing" visible="false"  alpha="1"
                 key="Al0VE_jsmagxk4LFghXGlK5JSHfC0tk-eHRubZv_eMYm6wzgQaStYks8g-wWcgk3"
                 style="road"/>
            <mapservice label="Aerial" type="bing" visible="false" alpha="1"
                   key="Al0VE_jsmagxk4LFghXGlK5JSHfC0tk-eHRubZv_eMYm6wzgQaStYks8g-wWcgk3"
                   style="aerial"/>
            <mapservice label="Hybrid" type="bing" visible="false" alpha="1"
              key="Al0VE_jsmagxk4LFghXGlK5JSHfC0tk-eHRubZv_eMYm6wzgQaStYks8g-wWcgk3"
              style="aerialWithLabels"/>           
        </basemaps>
        <operationallayers>
            <layer label="Boundaries and Places" type="tiled" visible="false"
                   url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Reference/World_Boundaries_and_Places_Alternate/MapServer"/>
            <layer label="Fires" type="feature" visible="false" alpha="1"
                   info="widgets/InfoTemplates/SimpleInfoWinWidget.swf"
                   infoconfig="widgets/InfoTemplates/IWT_Fires.xml"
                   url="http://sampleserver3.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Fire/Sheep/FeatureServer/0"/>
        </operationallayers>
    </map>

Re: Overview Map not working with BingLayers in FlexViewer

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:42:02 GMT

Scott,

Have you changed your OverviewMapWidget.xml?

Re: Overview Map not working with BingLayers in FlexViewer

ScottBeaumont — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 09:41:00 GMT

No, I have not. I was under the impression that it would use the same layers that the base map uses by default. Here is the OverViewMapWidget.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<configuration>
    <!-- possible values for initialstate: open or closed (default) -->
    <initialstate>closed</initialstate>
    <!-- by default it will use the same basemap as current main map,
         you can hardcode as below if you wish -->
    <!-- <mapservice 
            type="tiled" 
            mode="dynamic" 
            url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer"/>
    -->
</configuration>

Re: Overview Map not working with BingLayers in FlexViewer

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:14:16 GMT

Scott,

You don't have to I was just wondering if you had. I will test this bing maps on my end and let you know.

Re: Overview Map not working with BingLayers in FlexViewer

ScottBeaumont — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:43:14 GMT

Awesome... thanks for the help.

Re: Overview Map not working with BingLayers in FlexViewer

MehulChoksey — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:57:12 GMT

If config file for overview map does not specify layer, then overview map should have same layer as base map. Thanks for reporting this bug. We have filed issue in our system

Re: Overview Map not working with BingLayers in FlexViewer

SarthakDatt — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 16:10:00 GMT

Hey Scott,

Can you try adding culture property to your bing map service tag.

<mapservice label="Streets" type="bing" visible="false"  alpha="1"
                 key="Al0VE_jsmagxk4LFghXGlK5JSHfC0tk-eHRubZv_eMYm6wzgQaStYks8g-Wcgk3"
                 style="road" culture="en-US"/>

Right now, the overview component looks for both style and culture, hence it shows blank in your case. I would put in a fix for this.

--Sarthak Datt
ESRI Flex Team

Re: Overview Map not working with BingLayers in FlexViewer

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 09:41:03 GMT

Scott,

I came up this the same thing as Sarthak. My fix was to change the OverviewMapComponent.mxml's bing case to the below.

case "bing":
         var veTiledLayer:VETiledLayer = new VETiledLayer();
         veTiledLayer.id         = label;
         veTiledLayer.key        = bingMapKey;
         veTiledLayer.visible    = visible;
         veTiledLayer.alpha      = alpha;
         veTiledLayer.mapStyle = style || "aerial";
         veTiledLayer.culture = culture || "en-US";
         ovMap.addLayer(veTiledLayer);
                                    break;

Re: Overview Map not working with BingLayers in FlexViewer

ScottBeaumont — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:34:26 GMT

Thanks a lot for the timely help. I've made the change and things are working nicely.

Re: Overview Map not working with BingLayers in FlexViewer

KirstynAlex — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:48:34 GMT

Rscheitlin, where exactly do you put that code to make the bing map show up in the overview widget?

Re: Overview Map not working with BingLayers in FlexViewer

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:08:57 GMT

In the OverviewMapComponent.mxml in the configXML function