topic Re: Parcel Notification Widget in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions

Parcel Notification Widget

TristanKnowlton — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:24:10 GMT

I have almost successfully installed the Parcel Notification Widget. I cannot get ESRI's locator service to work. When plugging in an address, I get a blank screen but it claims it found something. It lists it's prospective matches in the matches tab. They are not valid though because the matches cannot be used to select parcels with a buffer around that location.

The relevant portion of the xml file for the widget looks like this:



<locatoraddressfield>Address</locatoraddressfield>

I have attached a screenshot of my application when I use the geocoding service.

Thanks!

Re: Parcel Notification Widget

ShawnKraft — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:24 GMT

Are you using v1.3 or 2.0? I got the parcel notification widget to work well in 1.3 and here is that portion of my code. You are missing the field that needs to be queried, for example, my SITUSFULLA.


<findparceladdressfield>SITUSFULLA</findparceladdressfield>
<locatoraddressfield>Address</locatoraddressfield>

Re: Parcel Notification Widget

TristanKnowlton — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:50:26 GMT

Shawn,

I guess I don't understand how the address locator works in this widget then. I want it to find the address by using the ESRI geocoding service, not my address field in my parcel layer. If I use my address field, it seems that it will have to be typed 100% identically to what is in the field. If the locating service is used, it will search based on the closest match.

I have also been told that you have to use one of the other, not both. That is why I don't have anything between the "findparceladdressfield" tags.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Parcel Notification Widget

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:04:48 GMT

Darryl,

You are correct you need to use one or the other. The issue you are having is with spatial reference. The Parcel Notification Widget is hard coded in several spot to a particular spatial reference. Look here, read thought the entire thread.

http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=158&f=2421&t=284009&mc=39#msgid882710

Re: Parcel Notification Widget

TristanKnowlton — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:23:28 GMT

Robert,

I had already changed my projections but that does not fix my problem. Since I am using cached map services, isn't that irrelevant anyway since you can't reproject a cached map?

Thanks!

Darryl

Re: Parcel Notification Widget

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:34:10 GMT

Darryl,

What that thread is talking about is re-projecting the locator results not your basemaps.

Re: Parcel Notification Widget

TristanKnowlton — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:05:13 GMT

Ok, so I inserted a fresh ParcelNotificationWidget.xml into flash builder and ran it again after changing the projection IDs. Now it does absolutely nothing when I try to use the geocoding service.

What am I doing wrong? I changed the projection id's and that is it.

Thanks.