topic Re: Customize information lookup template in ArcGIS Instant Apps Questions

Customize information lookup template

KendellRyan — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:49:23 GMT

I have been using the Information look up template (hosted). I now have a need to change the geocoder for the app and have it different than the geocoder we default to in our AGOLO site. I downloaded the files for the lookup template from github. I have it working locally with my map, However I cannot seem to get it to pick up on my geocoder. I tried changing the URL in the commonConfig.js and/or in the default.js (the section with helper services). However there is something else going on beyond there that I am missing. I'd appreciate any suggestions. I am a novice with javascript but I've gotten some of the other templates customized and working.

Re: Customize information lookup template

KellyHutchins — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 02:05:47 GMT

Can you zip up your customized version of the app and attach it to this thread? This might help us see what's going wrong.

Re: Customize information lookup template

KendellRyan — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:01:07 GMT

Sure. Can I email the zipped folder to you?

Re: Customize information lookup template

KellyHutchins — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:32:41 GMT

Sure send it to khutchins@esri.com

Re: Customize information lookup template

MikeMillerGIS — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:59:25 GMT

Kendell,

The app uses the settings in your ArcGIS Online to get a list of locators. If you do not want to add your locator to the org and have the app only use one locator, you can change the _getGeocoders function in the search.js javascript function. You will want to only return your locator in the defaultSources variable.

Basically you want the function to do this:

geocoder.locator = new Locator(<YourURL);

defaultSources.push(geocoder);

geocoder.placeholder = this.i18n.geocoder.defaultText;

Edit: The above is untested

Re: Customize information lookup template

KendellRyan — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:16:05 GMT

Yes, we want a different locator for this app than the ones we have set in our AGOLO site. That makes sense that it's reverting to our organizational settings, but unfortunate that it's not a simple change (for a non js programmer).

I just made those changes in the search.js but am still getting the same result. I'll keep hacking at it. I take it that I don't need to change anything in the default.js or common.js where there are references to the geocoder?

Re: Customize information lookup template

NicholasGross — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:48:13 GMT

I've worked on this all morning and unfortunately haven't accomplished a thing. The helper services in the default.js and the commonConfig.js don't seem to do anything at all in this template. The config settings have to be changed in the templateOptions.js file instead. But, when setting queryForOrg: false in templateOptions, the app ignores your organization completely, meaning no basemap gallery, just an error that it can't find any basemaps.

I can't imagine that this is the intended behavior for this setting considering there is no explicit place in the helper services to setup a different basemap gallery, and also because this is not the behavior of other apps, like the basic viewer. The basic viewer app allows the queryForOrg setting to be false in the commonConfig.js file so that it will make use of the custom helper services but still retrieves basemap information from your organization.

Also, I was unable to get Michael Miller's suggestion working. No matter how many places I explicitly set the locator to my url, it ultimately uses the default Esri world geocoding service.

Re: Customize information lookup template

MikeMillerGIS — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 01:55:41 GMT

I checked in changes tonight that fix the issue you are having. You can now set queryToOrg to false and it will load the basemap gallery. You will need to specify your geocoders, the url and singleLineFieldName are required.

Esri/information-lookup · GitHub

Re: Customize information lookup template

NicholasGross — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 12:39:44 GMT

Thanks Michael, my geocoder and basemap gallery are working now. Unfortunately, and this may only be affecting me, the geocoder exhibits some odd behavior when offering suggestions with my custom locator.

On the first use after each page refresh, the suggestion dropdown list requires a double-click to select an address. After the first use, it requires a single click. A small issue, but since the address bar is the primary way for users to interact with this particular app, I think it might be confusing since it appears to be a single click menu. I wonder if someone could confirm this behavior?

Re: Customize information lookup template

MikeMillerGIS — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:12:32 GMT

I cannot repo this. It could be something specific with your locator. Can you compare your settings in your locator to mine?

Locators/WaterLocator (GeocodeServer)

Re: Customize information lookup template

NicholasGross — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:24:24 GMT

Nothing jumps out at me except that my locator has many more candidate fields. It is a composite locator, not sure if that makes a difference.

Re: Customize information lookup template

MikeMillerGIS — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:27:53 GMT

Mine is also a composite. At this point I would log a bug with Tech Support. If there is an issue, it would be in the search dijit that this app uses.

Re: Customize information lookup template

NicholasGross — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:29:33 GMT

Ok, thanks Michael.

Re: Customize information lookup template

NataliyaLys — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:40:36 GMT

I am having the same issue. I downloaded the template, and would like to add my custom geocoder to it. And since I am not js developer, I don't seem to have much luck with it.

It sounds like you guys might have got it to work, I was wondering if you would be willing to help me.

Thank you, Nataliya

Re: Customize information lookup template

LeonardOlyott — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:44:46 GMT

Sorrry Nataliya

I am not a developer either and I have struggled a bit with editing the search functions. I basically want the address lookup to be constrained to Australia or within a bounding box. I have copied the code from GitHub and host it on Amazon S3. I then register this app with my AGO account and add it as a template to my template group. I can see it there but it doesn't behave like I think it should. I will let you know what I find out.

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