FeatureDataForm - 4 to 5 tabs to load columns?

Ravichandran_M_Kaushika — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:51:03 GMT

dear Readers,

Questions:

1. how to put fields into different tabs in a feature data form?

2. is it possible to change the text fields to a dropdown that loads from a support table in sql server 2008 r2 (attributes only) in a feature data form.

DETAILS:
thank you taking the time to read this post. We have a feature layer that has 78 or more columns. User have requested the fields to be put into 5 to 6 tabs based on the information each column holds. currently the app is of the following configuration:

1. esri api 3.0 (silverlight 5.x)
2. development lang c# - visual studio 2010 with latest sp.
3. REST etc from 10.1 (sql server 2008 r2 with spatial etc that works with esri).

the application was started with minimal template - then 'modified' to the glass template.

featurelayers records load in the grid and the application saves the data to the server using explicit save - since editing in the grid is cumbersome users want columns grouped into different tabs.

Users want a 'support table' for many of the columns (displayed as dropdown) to improve data accuracies.

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/68615-Cannot-Select-From-Domain-in-Attribute-Editor?highlight=featuredataform - this link talks about layer getting values from domain table - but features are deleted or users are not able to derive benefit because all features have been deleted.

while I get some suggestions, i will closely look into this thread: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/21714-Editing-Tables-in-Feature-Service-with-Silverlight-4?highlight=support+tables

regards
ravi.

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