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Pass value of address variable into the search widget on a mapview ... have search auto execute?

JohnRichardson — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 15:43:08 GMT

Brand new to Javascript and the ArcGIS API .... so please forgive me if this is a simple question ... but how can I pass a value of an address variable into the search widget of a mapview and have the search execute automatically?

Re: Pass value of address variable into the search widget on a mapview ... have search auto execute?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:40:53 GMT

John,

Just call the Search widgets search method:

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/api-reference/esri-widgets-Search.html#search

Re: Pass value of address variable into the search widget on a mapview ... have search auto execute?

JohnRichardson — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:49:30 GMT

searchWidget = new Search({ //add the search widget to the map view
view:view
});
view.ui.add(searchWidget, "bottom-right");
addy = searchWidget.searchTerm = "1024 E 8th";
searchWidget(addy);

the above code will not execute the search for me ... it populates the search field in the widget, just does not run the search and zoom to result

Re: Pass value of address variable into the search widget on a mapview ... have search auto execute?

JohnGrayson — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 20:02:27 GMT

As Robert points out via the provided link, you should call the 'search' method:

searchWidget = new Search({
view:view,

searchTerm: "1024 E 8th"
});

view.ui.add(searchWidget, "bottom-right");

view.when(()=>{

searchWidget.search();

});

Re: Pass value of address variable into the search widget on a mapview ... have search auto execute?

JohnRichardson — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:14:12 GMT

Yes!

Thank you all very much ...

view.when(()=>{

searchWidget.search();

});

The above bit of code did the trick!!