topic Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

NicholasMcNamara — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:26:30 GMT

My subtype data does not display for some reason. I have 2 operational services, and probably 40 layers, and in none of them my subtype data displays. However, all the other data appear just fine. Am I missing something or is it just not possible to display that type of data?

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:16:17 GMT

Nicholas,

I just tested and subtype codes are returning fine for me... Is your subtype based on a code value domain? Is your subtype listed in the REST service directory for that particular layer?

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

NicholasMcNamara — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:17:09 GMT

I noticed that I actually have one layer that is working with the identify widget with subtypes, but only one. Also, the eSearch widget displays all of them just fine.

The subtypes are just listed in the Subtypes: section in the feature class properties, with a code and a description. It's a long integer field. The subtype field is set to the "subtypeCode." The fields in the 2 tables are the same data type (long integer), same length, same name. Of course, they have different codes and descriptions.

I compared the working layer - manholes - to one of the nonworking layers - poles, and I don't see a difference in the REST service directory for the layers. As it's working with eSearch, I'd think it'd have something to do with the identify widget config, but I really dont' see anything there. I have the same values for the 2 layers and one works, while all the others don't.

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:29:09 GMT

Nicholas,

OK, So comparing the the eSearch and the Identify result (from a developers stand point) is like comparing apples and oranges, they use totally different base tasks from the API. The identify task normally returns all values just like you would see in ArcMap i.e subtype, domains, formatting, etc already applied. I have not seen it work otherwise as of yet. There is nothing that you have to configure in the IdentifyWidget.xml as normally the IdentifyTask handles all of this by itself.

So are you saying that you see the long integer value instead of the subtype description right?

Are these layer adding in the main config xml as type dynamic or feature or what?

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

NicholasMcNamara — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:49:10 GMT

OK, I just mentioned that eSearch worked because that would seem to eliminate an issue with my service or the layer itself.

1. I'm actually getting no data returned for those fields at all.
2. The operational layers are type dynamic.

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:01:41 GMT

Nicholas,

What happen when you set the IdentifyWidget.xml to:

<layers onlythese="false">

and remove the whole layer tag for that layer that is giving you trouble?

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

NicholasMcNamara — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:38:30 GMT

I got the same results. No data for the subtype fields in any layer, except for the one layer (manholes).

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:48:09 GMT

Nicholas,

So what that tells me as the developer is that it has nothing to do with the way you have the widget configured it has to do with the way the data is being returned from ArcGIS Server in the Identify Task. I will add this to my list of things to look at when time permits.

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

NicholasMcNamara — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:20:44 GMT

I still have issues with my subtypes with identify. I just made a new one today - short integer coded field for pipe types. For some reason, it's displaying data that it's not even coded for - no explanation for this... it's displaying the data from another domain entirely - pipe size. Looking in REST in Server Manager, everything displays correctly, but not in Identify. Have you gotten a chance to look into these issues?

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:49:04 GMT

Nick,

have you attempted to configure a popup for one of your layers with asubtype that is not behaving properly in the identify results? From what I am seeing it is an issue with the Servers identify task results.

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

NicholasMcNamara — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:38:59 GMT

I configured a popup for a water mains layer. It correctly translates the subtype into the correct name. If I use the identify tool in this example, it actually takes a value from another coded value domain and uses that, which I find baffling (the coded value for diameter).

So Identify returns 6" for the subtype and 6" for the diameter, while the popup correctly returns "Hydrant Leg" for the subtype and 6" for the diameter.

The other issues I was having with the subtype - one was working correctly, and a bunch of them returned blanks (nothing) for the results.

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:10:41 GMT

Nick,

Is this something that you can help me address by make you data available to me so I can test and diagnose the issue with my widget (if one exists)?

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

NicholasMcNamara — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:26:06 GMT

OK, I think I could create a subset of the data by removing most of it except for a few records that you could use for testing. I'm wondering what the minimum you would need for testing would be - maybe a few feature classes that I'm using that have subtypes, thrown in a small file gdb?

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:41:35 GMT

Nick,

That would be fine. So I take it your mapservice is not publicly available?

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

NicholasMcNamara — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:49:20 GMT

No, the services are not publicly available, they are just on our intranet for employees. I'm attaching a zip file of a couple feature classes. The manholes class works when identified. With the others, I've had issues.

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

NicholasMcNamara — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:53:59 GMT

I'm not sure if this was resolved or not. I'm going to mark it resolved and open a new thread, because I'm not sure if the issues I have now are the same ones as before... it seems like many of the subtypes are working, but I'm missing data in some fields, and not all of them are subtypes.

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

JeffMachamer — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:02:45 GMT

I know this is an old forum post, but I just wanted to respond saying that I'm seeing similar results with data we are working with.

Oddly enough, we can resolve this issue by adding a field to the database table and NOT republishing the map service. After that the subtype values return just fine.

If at some point you republish the map service it starts returning bad data for the subtype field again. At that point if you remove the dummy column you added it begins to work again.

We have raised an issue with ESRI, but they claim that the IdentifyTask does not support returning subtype data and have filed this as an Enhancement Request instead of a bug. We are currently waiting to hear back from a technical person on this "enhancement request" to see if it will be resolved.

Jeff Machamer

3-GIS

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

FilipJung — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:27:51 GMT

Hi folks,

we have got the same problems with displaying subtype values in IdentifyTask. Can someone from Esri provide a linko to the enhancement request, so we can assure our customer, that the problem is not with our application?

Thanks.

Filip

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

JeffMachamer — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:38:40 GMT

We were provided a fix: ArcGIS 10.1 SP1 QIP for Server hot fix QFE-101SP1QIP-S-305022

There was also a 10.2 version: QFE-1022-S-299337

They listed the following in the hotfix notes as issues being addressed:

NIM097394 - The Identify tool does not display the domain and subtype description when a feature class has a join.

NIM103847 - Identify from REST returns null as the objectid for the feature from a layer that has join but no match is found for that feature in the joined table.

While none of those issues seem to be related to our issue, it did seem to fix the problem.

Hope that helps,

Jeff

Re: Identify Widget: Displaying Subtype Data

FilipJung — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:59:01 GMT

Hi Jeff,

thank you for answer. I was however not able to find mentioned patches (I had a look in here, but I was not able to find the one associated with NIMs in your post).

Can you please provide me with a link or the date of issuing that patch so I am able to locate it?

Thank you very much.

Filip