topic Re: Flex and Interacting with an ASP.NET form in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions

Flex and Interacting with an ASP.NET form

DavidFlack — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:05:18 GMT

I'm trying to develop a workflow to keep a business process similar to how it currently exists in another platform. In a Flex application, the user selects a parcel. I customized a widget to link out to an ASP.NET form for data entry. So far so good.

What I'm having trouble with in this: In the application there is a button that takes the users back to the map so they can add a point feature to the map. The focus is then shifted back to the form so the user can continue their data entry. Alas, I could do this in IMS, but I can't see a way to communicate from the form back to the Flex application.

There are workarounds, but I'd like to know if there really isn't a way to do this before trying those.

Re: Flex and Interacting with an ASP.NET form

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:10:42 GMT

David,

The only way I know how to do this is to setup javascript functions in the flex page wrapper.
Look at this thread and on post 9 I give some example code:
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/13863-Communication-between-widgets?highlight=flex+javascript+communication

Re: Flex and Interacting with an ASP.NET form

DavidFlack — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:44:08 GMT

Thanks Robert! This might do the job. I'll try it out next week.