topic Re: GeoEnrichment Service - Create Report in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

GeoEnrichment Service - Create Report

DonCaviness — Wed, 28 May 2014 19:33:05 GMT

I am working with the Create Report functionality of the GeoEnrichment service and I have run into an issue I'm not sure how to solve. I can make the request to create the report using the esri.request class. I am successful in submitting and generating the a pdf report, however I'm not sure how to display the pdf. The result is a report is encoded as a binary byte-stream.

The result of the CreateReport method is a binary byte-stream where the PDF or Excel report are returned directly. The calling application will have to handle the response and present and/or save the binary output.

Does anyone know or can point me in the right direction as to how I can display this pdf in a browser window. I have been unable to locate any documentation in any of the Esri help for the GeoEnrichment or JavaScript API.

Re: GeoEnrichment Service - Create Report

VenkataSrikanthDasari — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:45:11 GMT

Identify the latest downloaded file from the downloads folder and then open in a browser by using

window.open method in Javascript..

Cheers,
Srikanth Dasari

Re: GeoEnrichment Service - Create Report

Anonymous User — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 11:59:51 GMT

Alternatively, you can use the blob type with your esriRequest like this (it will download the file and the user can click to open in browser):

esriRequest({ 
    handleAs: 'blob',
    content: myArgs,
    url: 'https://geoenrich.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/geoenrichmentserver/geoenrichment/createreport'
}).then(function(response) {
    if (response instanceof Blob) {
        var blob = new Blob([response], { type: 'application/pdf' });
        if (navigator.msSaveBlob) { // IE 10+
            navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, 'myfile.pdf');
        } else {
            var link = document.createElement("a");
            var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
            link.setAttribute("href", url);
            if (link.download !== undefined) { // feature detection
                // Browsers that support HTML5 download attribute
                link.setAttribute("download", this.fileName);
            }
            link.style = "visibility:hidden";
            document.body.appendChild(link);
            link.click();
            document.body.removeChild(link);
        }
    }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
});
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