topic Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Edit Feature Layer Troubles

BrandonVan_Horn — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:32:16 GMT

I am using the attribute inspector to try and edit a point feature class. I am getting some errors currently.
Onload:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]17503[/ATTACH]
and after I change some of the attributes:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]17504[/ATTACH]
This error repeats (7) time per attribute changed or if I hit the save button

My proxy.config files appears to be functioning properly after I manualy set the location of the proxy file.

The funny part about the whole thing is the "delete" feature button deletes the feature with no problem. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this?

I will happy attach my code if you want to look at it.

Thanks for your time.

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

BrandonVan_Horn — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:45:10 GMT

Here is an updated link to my semifunctional page

http://gis.co.yavapai.az.us/SurveyMon/editor.htm

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

Anonymous User — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:41:13 GMT

Original User: jgravois

as soon as an edit is made in the attribute window a call to applyEdits is made which returns the following error

{"error":{"code":400,"message":"Unable to complete operation.","details":["Invalid graphic features","Invalid parameters"]}}

if your draft field doesn't have a domain, why does it display a dropdown which concatenates several values? is this because you have map symbology based on multiple fields?

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

BrandonVan_Horn — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:46:06 GMT

jgravois,
Yes, I have map symbology on my draft field. I use a group for null and draft. This makes the symbol the same.
Should I get rid of the null values and try it again?
Thanks for your response.

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

Anonymous User — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:56:20 GMT

Original User: jgravois

i don't know what will be necessary to resolve the error, but i would recommend doing some testing directly in REST to try and determine specifically what will be required to push an update through.

i don't see a corresponding feature service up. are you making live changes?

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

BrandonVan_Horn — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:58:27 GMT

I just calced the null values to draft, and forgot to check the feature service when I restarted the service. It is up now.

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

Anonymous User — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:05:48 GMT

Original User: vanhornsky

I figured out why the error is echoing 7 times. I have 7 edit fields and I have a method "onattributechange" which applies edits to the fields. Thanks for your recomendation to check the REST. Is there any documentaion for this? I will give it a try that this afternoon. Thanks for your time.

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

Anonymous User — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:06:43 GMT

Original User: jgravois

relevant REST doc
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/rest/apiref/fsserviceedits.html

as a simple test, i queried your feature service for an object id that i knew (1707) and requested that it be returned as JSON
http://gis.co.yavapai.az.us/ArcGIS/rest/services/SurveyEditor/FeatureServer/0/query?objectIds=1707&outFields=*&returnGeometry=true&outSR=&returnCountOnly=false&returnIdsOnly=false&f=pjson

afterwards i was unable to copy/paste the feature as an update into applyEdits. if you use updateFeatures in REST instead of applyEdits, the following error is returned

Error: -1, Description: Update for the object was not attempted. Object may not exist.

i haven't seen something like this before, but something is up with your service.

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

BrandonVan_Horn — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:29:47 GMT

Thanks for looking into this problem. I have been working on it for a week now. I am completly stumped!

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

Anonymous User — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:21:17 GMT

Original User: jgravois

i made a mistake earlier and tried to use updateFeature in REST pasting your JSON into one of our sample services, so the error i mentioned above is actually user error. i tested again and was able to update a feature successfully using that approach.

afterward, i adapted our attribute inspector sample to use your data and its working just fine (i noticed that posts require a proxy).

http://jsfiddle.net/jagravois/2yAZe/

i'm not sure i understand what you're doing onAttributeChange
why write the feature to JSON?

why load both the editor widget and the attribute inspector?
are you confident that your implementation of the undomanager isn't causing the problem?

a good way to check would be to try updating the feature without the callback

SurveyMonumentsFL.applyEdits(null, [feature], null);

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

BrandonVan_Horn — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:33:19 GMT

i'm not sure i understand what you're doing onAttributeChange
I am attempting to save the attribute on every change because the save was not working.

why write the feature to JSON?

To be honest with you this came from the update manger, not to sure.

why load both the editor widget and the attribute inspector?
are you confident that your implementation of the undomanager isn't causing the problem?

I tried the editor widget first, it didn't function the way I was wanting it to.(It still did not update the feature). The editor widget is commented out now, but I left the code there just in case I wanted to use it later. I can take the undomanager out it is not nessacary right now.

a good way to check would be to try updating the feature without the callback
I can try this to.

Just a note the service was down for a little bit. My feature class is a Point Z shape style so I added a default value for the Z to the service. It is up now. Thanks for all the great info.

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

BrandonVan_Horn — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:53:47 GMT

I have simplified my app and implemented the suggestions previously given. I have also projected my point feature class into WebM, Changed my feature class to a regular point shape file with no Z values.
In my rest server I can query via (Post)
I can delete features
I can not:

Do you have any other suggestions for me to try?

Again thank you for your time.

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

Anonymous User — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:36:07 GMT

Original User: vanhornsky

Ok I got it working.

This morning I gave permissions to my ArcGIS WebServices account to read and write to the workgroup

I ended up unversioning my point feature class. Then I set my map service layer to work like this by this help document

http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Configuring_an_ArcMap_edit_session_to_perform_nonversioned_edits/002700000007000000/

The other problem I had was something that I did. I was trying to fill the contents of a date field with a javascript code for the last update date. I took this line of code

feature.attributes.LASTUPDATED = new Date();

Re: Edit Feature Layer Troubles

Anonymous User — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:12:50 GMT

Original User: jgravois

i'm glad to hear it. 🙂