topic Re: seeking samples or documentation on using multiple geocoders and geocoderMenu in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

seeking samples or documentation on using multiple geocoders and geocoderMenu

PatKeegan — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:24:43 GMT

Hi All,

Looking for a sample or documentation on how to configure the geocoder digit to use multiple custom locators.

I am trying to construct my geocoder with multiple geocoding service and allow users to change between them via the geocoderMenu.

I found this very cool working example but it was a bit more complex than i was looking for: https://github.com/Esri/geocoder-search-widget-js

my code (which does not show the geocoderMenu) is something like this


  var geocoder [];
                 var custom1 = {
   url : "some url for a locator",
   name : "Address",
   outFields : "*",
   singleLineFieldName : "Address"
  };
  geocoder.push(custom1)

  var custom2 = {
   url: "some url for a locator",
   name: "Name",
   outFields : "*",   
   singleLineFieldName: "PlaceName"
  };  
  geocoder.push(custom2)


 var geocoder = new esri.dijit.Geocoder({
  map : map,
  geocoders : geocoder,
  autoComplete: true,
  theme : "simpleGeocoder",
  geocoderMenu: true,
  arcgisGeocoder : false
 }, "webmap-toolbar-right");
 geocoder.startup();

Re: seeking samples or documentation on using multiple geocoders and geocoderMenu

KellyHutchins — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:53:39 GMT

Here's a fiddle showing an example of the geocoder using multiple locators:

http://jsfiddle.net/DC2g2/

Re: seeking samples or documentation on using multiple geocoders and geocoderMenu

JohnGravois — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:24:45 GMT

its probably causing problems that you use the same variable name for your array of locators and the widget itself.

you also need to use an equal sign when instantiating an empty array.

so...

//was
var geocoder []

//should be
var geocoderz = [];

Re: seeking samples or documentation on using multiple geocoders and geocoderMenu

PatKeegan — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:54:48 GMT

Thanks for fiddle, I was using api version 3.5. Upgrade is in order.