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Identify Widget Question

TomSedlacek — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:38:16 GMT

This question pertians to Robert Scheitlins' Identify Widget 2.3.1.
I have added the widget to my web app and it's exactly what I'm looking for. HOWEVER, it only seems to identify those layers that are a part of my basemap. I've modified the "onlythese" code in the compiled version six ways from Sunday and it will not id any of the layers in my 'operational layers'.

Any ideas anyone? Robert?

Thanks!

Tom Sedlacek GISP
Engineering Tech / GIS
Clark Regional Wastewater District
360-993-8811
Email: TSedlacek@CRWWD.com

Re: Identify Widget Question

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sun, 22 May 2011 01:14:16 GMT

Tom,

That is strange... What does your IdentifyWidget.xml look like?

Re: Identify Widget Question

TomSedlacek — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:32:38 GMT

Hi Robert,

Here is my .xml. It's pretty bare bones. The layer that works is 'Taxlots' and it is in my basemap service. The other, 'Mainline_Structures' is in my active layer service and is the one that can't be ID'd. Thanks for your input.

Tom

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<configuration>
<betareturngeometryfix>false</betareturngeometryfix>
<identifylayeroption>visible</identifylayeroption>
<identifytolerance>5</identifytolerance>
<defaultzoomscale>5000</defaultzoomscale>
<keepidentifyactive>false</keepidentifyactive>
<returngeometryforzoom>true</returngeometryforzoom>
<labels>
<zoom2message>Click to Zoom to Point</zoom2message>
<identifylabel>Identify</identifylabel>
<resultslabel>Results</resultslabel>
<descriptionlabel>Use the identify tool to identify features on the map:</descriptionlabel>
<pointlabel>Identify by Point</pointlabel>
<linelabel>Identify by Polyline</linelabel>
<rectlabel>Identify by Rectangle</rectlabel>
<polylabel>Identify by Polygon</polylabel>
<clearlabel>Clear</clearlabel>
<loadinglabel>Loading...</loadinglabel>
</labels>
<useproxy>
<proxylayer>
   
</proxylayer>
</useproxy>
<layers onlythese="true">

                 <layer>
   <name>Mainline_Structures</name>
   <fields>Rim_Elev,High_Inv,Low_Inv,MH_Number</fields>
   <linkfield></linkfield>
   <linkprefix></linkprefix>
   <linksuffix></linksuffix>
   <iconfield></iconfield>
   <iconprefix></iconprefix>
   <iconsuffix></iconsuffix>
   <zoomscale>15000</zoomscale>
   <forcescale>true</forcescale>
</layer>

<layer>
   <name>Taxlots</name>
   <fields>ASSR_SN,STADDRS</fields>
   <linkfield></linkfield>
   <linkprefix></linkprefix>
   <linksuffix></linksuffix>
   <iconfield></iconfield>
   <iconprefix></iconprefix>
   <iconsuffix></iconsuffix>
   <zoomscale>15000</zoomscale>
   <forcescale>true</forcescale>
</layer>

</layers>
<symbols>
     <simplefillsymbol color="0x448ccb" alpha="0.4" style="solid">
      <outline color="0x448ccb" alpha="0.8" width="2"/>
     </simplefillsymbol>
     <simplemarkersymbol style="circle" size="12" color="0x448ccb" alpha="0.8" xoffset="0" yoffset="0" angle="0">
      <outline style="solid" color="0xffffff" alpha="0.8" width="1"/>
     </simplemarkersymbol>
     <picturemarkersymbol url="assets/images/i_info.png" height="30" width="30" xoffset="0" yoffset="0" />
<simplelinesymbol color="0x448ccb" alpha="0.8" width="2"/>
    </symbols>
</configuration>

Re: Identify Widget Question

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:06:04 GMT

Tom,

So Mainline_Structures is the name of the layer exactly as it appears in your REST services directory right?

Re: Identify Widget Question

TomSedlacek — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:13:51 GMT

Robert,

Absolutely. Also, I have tried adding all of the other layers in that particular service with no luck.

Tom S.

Re: Identify Widget Question

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:27:28 GMT

Tom,

Only thing I can suggest is what I would do to narrow the issue down.

1. <identifylayeroption>all</identifylayeroption>
2. <layers onlythese="false">

and see if the layer can be identified.
Also check the that identify is an option at the bottom of the REST Service directory page for that particular layer.

Re: Identify Widget Question

TomSedlacek — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:12:31 GMT

Robert,

Thanks for the suggestions, but no luck. Something must be going on with my active service. I'll try rebuilding and publishing and see if that works.

Thanks for help!

Tom

Re: Identify Widget Question Mr. Robert Rscheitlin Identify version 3.0

JORGELAGOS2 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:39:47 GMT

Hello,

This is a question regarding Mr. Robert Rscheitlin Identify version 3.0.

It seems there are two places to instruct the software which layers identify from Thus, we are instructing with identifylayeroption = visible to identify All visible layers ONLY. Also, with <layers onlythese="false"> we are instructing it that all mapservices and layers in the map will be identified right?

Isn�??t somehow conflicting?

thanks

Jorge

The identifylayeroption specifies which method to use when using Identify.
�?� "top": Only the topmost visible layer is identified (for the whole map, not each map
service as in previous versions).
�?� "visible": All visible layers are identified.
�?� "all": All layers are identified, even if they are not visible.

Layers:
<layers onlythese="false">
The only these attribute is either true or false and if true then only the listed layers will be identified and
if false all mapservices and layers in the map will be identified.

Re: Identify Widget Question

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:15:58 GMT

Jorge,

we are instructing it that all mapservices and layers in the map will be identified right?

No, if the identifylayeroption is set to visible then only the layers that are visible will be identified. So if you have the identifylayeroption set to all and the onlythese set to true than you will only get results that match the layers in the layer list. So there is no conflicting or duplication of these two parameters.

Re: Identify Widget Question

JORGELAGOS2 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:44:04 GMT

Jorge,

No, if the identifylayeroption is set to visible then only the layers that are visible will be identified. So if you have the identifylayeroption set to all and the onlythese set to true than you will only get results that match the layers in the layer list. So there is no conflicting or duplication of these two parameters.

But we have the <layers onlythese="false"> and the identifylayeroption = visible

Could you explain to me what will happen in our scenario?

Thanks

jorge

Re: Identify Widget Question

AnthonyGiles — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:25:37 GMT

Jorge,

With this scenario any layer currently visible in the viewer will be identifyable and the identify tool will return all fields for each layer.

But we have the <layers onlythese="false"> and the identifylayeroption = visible

Could you explain to me what will happen in our scenario?

Thanks

jorge

Regards

Anthony

Re: Identify Widget Question

JORGELAGOS2 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:56:29 GMT

Jorge,

With this scenario any layer currently visible in the viewer will be identifyable and the identify tool will return all fields for each layer.

Regards

Anthony

I guess I am not being clear in my confussion. Let me try again. What will be the diferrence of having the 2 scenarios below

<identifylayeroption>visible</identifylayeroption>
<layers onlythese="false">

VERSUS

<identifylayeroption>visible</identifylayeroption>
<layers onlythese="true">

Jorge

Re: Identify Widget Question

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:54:02 GMT

Jorge,

<identifylayeroption>visible</identifylayeroption>
<layers onlythese="false">
ALL fields for any VISIBLE layers in ANY map service

VERSUS

<identifylayeroption>visible</identifylayeroption>
<layers onlythese="true">
Specified fields for specified layers in those map services

Somethimes it is easier just to try it, then try and understand exactly what it is doing.

Re: Identify Widget Question

JORGELAGOS2 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:53:56 GMT

Jorge,

<identifylayeroption>visible</identifylayeroption>
<layers onlythese="false">
ALL fields for any VISIBLE layers in ANY map service

VERSUS

<identifylayeroption>visible</identifylayeroption>
<layers onlythese="true">
Specified fields for specified layers in those map services

Somethimes it is easier just to try it, then try and understand exactly what it is doing.

Thanks so much everybody for the help.

Jorge

Re: Identify Widget Question

JORGELAGOS2 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:00:28 GMT

I am having problem implementing the IdentifyWidget tool (Mr. Robert Rscheitlin Identify version 3.0 ) in my projects. Regardless of any combination I use with the tags that filter what layers should be identifiable.

What I really would like to do is to Identify all the fields from all the visible layers so I tried this combination

<identifylayeroption>visible</identifylayeroption>
<layers onlythese="false">

However, despite of all these 20 layers being visible in the mapservice: layerA,layerB,layerC,layerD,layerE,layerF,layerG,layerH,layerI,layerJ,layerK AND layerL...........layerS
ONLY layers A,D,H,M, and R return values. This made me think is should be something specific about the mapservice thus I went ahead and created and individual Identify tool for each of the 20 layers (so I created 20 xml one for each layer). No surprisingly, only the individual Identify tool for the same 3 layers worked. The other 17 didn't returned anything when they finished processing. For the individual ones I used the following combination of tags

<identifylayeroption>visible</identifylayeroption>
<layers onlythese="true">
then for each one I included the corresponding fields

Does anybody has any idea why only those 3 layers respond? I printed out each MapServer but couldn't find anythig particular to the 3 layrs other than they were the only one that didn't have a Min. Scale value set.

I would appreciate any help.

Re: Identify Widget Question

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:07:18 GMT

JORGE,

Well the fact that the other layer have a min scale is your issue when using the visible option. The visible option take into account scale dependency.

Re: Identify Widget Question

JORGELAGOS2 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:35:16 GMT

JORGE,

Well the fact that the other layer have a min scale is your issue when using the visible option. The visible option take into account scale dependency.

Thanks Robert.

Jorge

Re: Identify Widget Question

JORGELAGOS2 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:06:51 GMT

One more question:
Could you please check my code below and see why my Identify tool is returning only the name of the Layer which is Cultural Sites? It is the only layer in my widget CulturalSite.xml file which code I am including below. I understand that if I code the fields tag to :<fields all="true"> then all the fields will show right?
It works fine when I said <fields all="false"> but I don't want to go and list every field.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<configuration>
<betareturngeometryfix>true</betareturngeometryfix>
<identifylayeroption>all</identifylayeroption>
<identifytolerance>5</identifytolerance>
<defaultzoomscale>5000</defaultzoomscale>
<keepidentifyactive>true</keepidentifyactive>
<returngeometryforzoom>true</returngeometryforzoom>
<enablelineselect>true</enablelineselect>
<enableextentselect>true</enableextentselect>
<enablepolyselect>true</enablepolyselect>
<enablemouseovergraphicsinfo>true</enablemouseovergraphicsinfo>
<enablemouseoverrecordinfo>true</enablemouseoverrecordinfo>
<usemaptime>false</usemaptime>
<infoautoclosemilliseconds>2000</infoautoclosemilliseconds>
<autoactivatedtool>mappoint</autoactivatedtool>
<excludebasemaps>true</excludebasemaps>
<labels>
<zoom2message>Click to Zoom to Point</zoom2message>
<identifylabel>Identify</identifylabel>
<resultslabel>Results</resultslabel>
<descriptionlabel>Use the identify tool to identify features on the map:</descriptionlabel>
<pointlabel>Identify by Point</pointlabel>
<linelabel>Identify by Polyline</linelabel>
<rectlabel>Identify by Rectangle</rectlabel>
<polylabel>Identify by Polygon</polylabel>
<clearlabel>Clear</clearlabel>
<loadinglabel>Loading ...</loadinglabel>
</labels>
<useproxy</useproxy>
<layers onlythese="true">
<layer>
   <name>Cultural Sites</name>
   <fields all="true">
   </fields>
   <links>
    <link includeinresults="true" field="" alias="" tooltip="">
     <linkprefix/>
     <linksuffix/>
     <iconfield/>
     <iconprefix/>
     <iconsuffix/>
    </link>
   </links>
   <zoomscale></zoomscale>
   <forcescale>false</forcescale>
</layer>
</layers>

Re: Identify Widget Question

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 17:01:31 GMT

Jorge,

Try this xml as I noticed that you had some syntax erros in yours:
Also be absolutely sure that "Cultural Sites" is the name of the LAYER (not the map service) that appears in the REST Service directory for that layer as stated in the documentation.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!-- Environmental Site -->
<configuration>
    <betareturngeometryfix>true</betareturngeometryfix>
    <identifylayeroption>all</identifylayeroption>
    <identifytolerance>5</identifytolerance>
    <defaultzoomscale>5000</defaultzoomscale>
    <keepidentifyactive>true</keepidentifyactive>
    <returngeometryforzoom>true</returngeometryforzoom>
    <enablelineselect>true</enablelineselect>
    <enableextentselect>true</enableextentselect>
    <enablepolyselect>true</enablepolyselect>
    <enablemouseovergraphicsinfo>true</enablemouseovergraphicsinfo>
    <enablemouseoverrecordinfo>true</enablemouseoverrecordinfo>
    <usemaptime>false</usemaptime>
    <infoautoclosemilliseconds>2000</infoautoclosemilliseconds><!-- 2 seconds -->
    <autoactivatedtool>mappoint</autoactivatedtool><!-- possible values are extent or polygon or mappoint or polyline or nothing -->
    <excludebasemaps>true</excludebasemaps>
    <labels>
        <zoom2message>Click to Zoom to Point</zoom2message>
        <identifylabel>Identify</identifylabel>
        <resultslabel>Results</resultslabel>
        <descriptionlabel>Use the identify tool to identify features on the map:</descriptionlabel>
        <pointlabel>Identify by Point</pointlabel>
        <linelabel>Identify by Polyline</linelabel>
        <rectlabel>Identify by Rectangle</rectlabel>
        <polylabel>Identify by Polygon</polylabel>
        <clearlabel>Clear</clearlabel>
        <loadinglabel>Loading ...</loadinglabel>
    </labels>
    <useproxy />
    <layers onlythese="true">
        <layer>
            <name>Cultural Sites</name>
            <fields all="true" />
            <links>
                <link includeinresults="true" field="" alias="" tooltip="">
                    <linkprefix />
                    <linksuffix />
                    <iconfield />
                    <iconprefix />
                    <iconsuffix />
                </link>
            </links>
            <zoomscale />
            <forcescale>false</forcescale>
        </layer>
    </layers>
</configuration>

Re: Identify Widget Question

JORGELAGOS2 — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:38:04 GMT

Jorge,

Try this xml as I noticed that you had some syntax erros in yours:
Also be absolutely sure that "Cultural Sites" is the name of the LAYER (not the map service) that appears in the REST Service directory for that layer as stated in the documentation.

Hello Robert. Thanks so much again for your tremendous help. However, I used your corrected code and still didn't work for me. For the meanwhile, I ended up coding each field and that work fine. The fact that the code work fine when I list all the fields make me believe that I am indeed using the correct name for the layer as appear in the REST Service directory. I still want to make the <fields all="true" /> to work to avoid typing all the fields.

Thanks again for your help

Jorge

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<configuration>
<betareturngeometryfix>true</betareturngeometryfix>
<identifylayeroption>all</identifylayeroption>
<identifytolerance>5</identifytolerance>
<defaultzoomscale>5000</defaultzoomscale>
<keepidentifyactive>true</keepidentifyactive>
<returngeometryforzoom>true</returngeometryforzoom>
<enablelineselect>true</enablelineselect>
<enableextentselect>true</enableextentselect>
<enablepolyselect>true</enablepolyselect>
<enablemouseovergraphicsinfo>true</enablemouseovergraphicsinfo>
<enablemouseoverrecordinfo>true</enablemouseoverrecordinfo>
<usemaptime>false</usemaptime>
<infoautoclosemilliseconds>2000</infoautoclosemilliseconds>

<autoactivatedtool>mappoint</autoactivatedtool>

<excludebasemaps>true</excludebasemaps>
<labels>
<zoom2message>Click to Zoom to Point</zoom2message>
<identifylabel>Identify. Set scale under 1:288,895.</identifylabel>
<resultslabel>Results</resultslabel>
<descriptionlabel>Set scale under 1:288,895.                                                                Use the identify tool to identify features on the map:</descriptionlabel>
<pointlabel>Identify by Point. Set scale under 1:288,895.</pointlabel>
<linelabel>Identify by Polyline. Set scale under 1:288,895.</linelabel>
<rectlabel>Identify by Rectangle. Set scale under 1:288,895.</rectlabel>
<polylabel>Identify by Polygon. Set scale under 1:288,895.</polylabel>
<clearlabel>Clear</clearlabel>
<loadinglabel>Loading ...</loadinglabel>
</labels>
<useproxy />
<layers onlythese="true">
<layer>
   <name>Cultural Sites</name>
   
   <fields all="false">
    <field name="Id"/>
    <field name="FIELD_NAME"/>
    <field name="SITE_NO"/>
    <field name="RECORDER_N"/>
    <field name="SURVEY_DAT"/>
    <field name="SUBMIT_DAT"/>
    <field name="CREW_NO"/>
    <field name="Eligibilit"/>
    <field name="COMMENT"/>
    <field name="Icon Link" popuponly="true"/>
   </fields>
   <links>
    <link includeinresults="true" field="" alias="" tooltip="">
     <linkprefix />
     <linksuffix />
     <iconfield />
     <iconprefix />
     <iconsuffix />
    </link>
   </links>
   <zoomscale />
   <forcescale>false</forcescale>
</layer>
</layers>
</configuration>