topic Cant access the properties of a FeatureLayer in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/cant-access-the-properties-of-a-featurelayer/m-p/509719#M47373 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I´m working with ArcGIS Server 10 and the JavaScript API v2.1 and I'm trying to access the properties (name, fields etc) of a featureLayer but it seems like I get no reference to the featureLayer. When I try to alert the name (... or other properties) i get "undefined". This is kind of what I´m doing in code (JavaScript)...</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">var featureLayer=new esri.layers.FeatureLayer("http://sampleserver3.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Petroleum/KSPetro/MapServer/1", {mode: esri.layers.FeatureLayer.MODE_SELECTION}); alert(featureLayer.name);</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><SPAN>Am I missing something... ??</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:28:32 GMT KristerVikström 2010-10-08T05:28:32Z Cant access the properties of a FeatureLayer https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/cant-access-the-properties-of-a-featurelayer/m-p/509719#M47373 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I´m working with ArcGIS Server 10 and the JavaScript API v2.1 and I'm trying to access the properties (name, fields etc) of a featureLayer but it seems like I get no reference to the featureLayer. When I try to alert the name (... or other properties) i get "undefined". This is kind of what I´m doing in code (JavaScript)...</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">var featureLayer=new esri.layers.FeatureLayer("http://sampleserver3.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Petroleum/KSPetro/MapServer/1", {mode: esri.layers.FeatureLayer.MODE_SELECTION}); alert(featureLayer.name);</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><SPAN>Am I missing something... ??</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:28:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/cant-access-the-properties-of-a-featurelayer/m-p/509719#M47373 KristerVikström 2010-10-08T05:28:32Z Re: Cant access the properties of a FeatureLayer https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/cant-access-the-properties-of-a-featurelayer/m-p/509720#M47374 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have dived deeper into this issu and found out that I can get access to the information by using JSON (http request and eval function to get the object). Is this the proper way to access the properties or is it just a workaround??</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:55:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/cant-access-the-properties-of-a-featurelayer/m-p/509720#M47374 KristerVikström 2010-10-08T07:55:17Z Re: Cant access the properties of a FeatureLayer https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/cant-access-the-properties-of-a-featurelayer/m-p/509721#M47375 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The feature layer properties aren't available until after the layer has loaded. Once the layer has loaded the properties should return values instead of undefined.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:17:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/cant-access-the-properties-of-a-featurelayer/m-p/509721#M47375 KellyHutchins 2010-10-08T15:17:30Z Re: Cant access the properties of a FeatureLayer https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/cant-access-the-properties-of-a-featurelayer/m-p/509722#M47376 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Ok, then I missed something <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span></SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:45:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/cant-access-the-properties-of-a-featurelayer/m-p/509722#M47376 KristerVikström 2010-10-11T07:45:07Z