topic Re: New to Flex and looking for help in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions

New to Flex and looking for help

DustinKosmach — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:34:45 GMT

Ive done some reading and research, but I cant really find what I need. Hopefulyl someone can point me in the right directions(s). I guess the easiest thing to do would be to list off what I am looking for.

-Publish a tiled map with arggis server
-Publish a dynamic map with AGS
-Use flex to view either of those maps, I have a map published and tried to use Flex to view it, but nothing happens.
-customize the sample flex viewer to work with my villags data
-Find tutorials or how tos on how to add my own menus or widgets, everything I have found is outdated and not working right.
-Find a breakdown of the sample flex viewer so I can better understand it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Im not looking for any answers in this thread, unless you feel like being really nice :), just where I can go to find what Im looking for.

Re: New to Flex and looking for help

karldailey — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:42:19 GMT

Ive done some reading and research, but I cant really find what I need. Hopefulyl someone can point me in the right directions(s). I guess the easiest thing to do would be to list off what I am looking for.

-Publish a tiled map with arggis server
-Publish a dynamic map with AGS
-Use flex to view either of those maps, I have a map published and tried to use Flex to view it, but nothing happens.
-customize the sample flex viewer to work with my villags data
-Find tutorials or how tos on how to add my own menus or widgets, everything I have found is outdated and not working right.
-Find a breakdown of the sample flex viewer so I can better understand it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Im not looking for any answers in this thread, unless you feel like being really nice :), just where I can go to find what Im looking for.

You can find easy to understand examples at http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/flex/samples/index.html. Just click on the code and its fairly strait forward.

If you dont know how to use flex well, adobe has a lot of resources available. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/
http://192.150.8.60/devnet/flex/tourdeflex/?devcon=f9b

If you have a specific question or error your dealing with, post a reply

Re: New to Flex and looking for help

DustinKosmach — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:39:08 GMT

Ok, well im stuck. I published a map service on my arcgis server. I can view it via my browser. I tried changing the url in the tile and dynamic map samples to match that of the map i just published but only a blank map screen appears.

If the address url for my map is http://server/mapService, what code would i use in flex to view it? This code does not work.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
     xmlns:esri="http://www.esri.com/2008/ags"
     pageTitle="Example - ArcGIS API for Flex connecting to a dynamic AGS service">
    <esri:Map>

      url="http://server/test"/>
    </esri:Map>

</mx:Application>

Re: New to Flex and looking for help

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:55:42 GMT

dhellriegel,

http://server/mapService is not a complete url. Open a web browser and type in http://localhost/ArcGIS/rest/services

This should take you to the "ArcGIS Services Directory" web page and there you will see a list of services you have published. Click on one of them and then look at your web browsers address, what you see there is the correct url to use.