topic Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

JamesFaron — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:34:20 GMT

Robert,

I am getting an error in the MapManager after inputting the code changes that are specified in the Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration pdf. The error is to the line of code as follows from private function mapLoadComplete function utimerComplete:

ViewerContainer.getInstance().widgetManager.getWidget(id);

The error is 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method getWidget through a reference with static type com.esri.viewer.managers:WidgetManager

Thanks,
Jim Faron

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:55:20 GMT

Jim,

Did you miss the "Changes to the WidgetManager.mxml" on the bottom of page 2?

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

JamesFaron — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:43:29 GMT

Robert,

No I didn't miss that. Inserted it on line 467, after the 'setAutoXY() function.

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:49:28 GMT

James,

And your problems window in Flash Builder does not report any error?

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

JamesFaron — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:08:13 GMT

Robert,

I did miss an additional error (for some reason flashbuilder repeats the same error, same line for over 10 times): in the WidgetManager, I get error 1120:Access of undefined property Widget in this code:

Widget.setState(WidgetStates.WIDGET_OPENED);

I changed the W in widget to lower case 'widget.setState', and that fixed it, but then got the error 1120:Access of undefined property BaseWidget in this code towards the end of your insert:

widget.setState(BaseWidget.WIDGET_OPENED);

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:15:07 GMT

James,

Just change that line to :

widget.setState(WidgetStates.WIDGET_OPENED);

And you will be good to go.

I will get my errors fixed in the documentation. 😮

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

JamesFaron — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 19:34:26 GMT

Robert,

I saw that toward the beginning of that insert you instruct the following:

widget = widgetTable.find(id) as IBaseWidget;
     //add back the container if exists
     //if using FlexViewer 2.1 than this line needs to be
     //widget.setState(BaseWidget.WIDGET_OPENED);
     widget.setState(WidgetStates.WIDGET_OPENED);
     wgtContainer.focusWidget(id);

So I changed the line in the else statement (where I was getting the error):

else
       widget.setState(WidgetStates.WIDGET_OPENED);
      widgetTable.add(id, widget);

The error is gone!

Thanks again for your help,

Jim Faron

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

JayGeisen — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:42:25 GMT

Robert,

How might one modify the code to allow different searches other than the first one in the config file? My current site (1.x) allows this, using code supplied by you (naturally). I actually tried modifying the 1.x code myself to do this in version 2.2, but then I happened across this thread and went with this. If you are taking requests, this would be high on my list. In fact, I'm not even sure I am too excited about moving my public site to 2.2 until I can get this worked out, since we now rely on the ability to link to various features through the URL search. Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there. Thanks again for everything you do for the community.

Cheers,
Jay

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:49:17 GMT

Jay,

What did a couple of your 1.x urls look like? Please be sure to post more than one and preferably searching different layers.

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

JayGeisen — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:23:23 GMT

Okay, here are a few.

1. http://gis.johnson-county.com/PIV/?parcelnum=1009427001

2. http://gis.johnson-county.com/PIV/?pollsite=county

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

NateRose — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:37:50 GMT

Robert,

I noticed you added an option for the data grid to show up after a search is performed in the March update. BTW I really like the data grid results format. Is there an option for the data grid to show up on page load using the URL Search Configuration?

For example, returning all records of a layer and having them displayed in the data grid on page load?

Thanks,

Nate

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:54:49 GMT

Jay and Nate,

Your enhancement requests made it into the v2.3 release of the Enhanced Search Widget. Only thing is that the new version is ONLY for Flex Viewer 2.3. Time to upgrade.

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

JayGeisen — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:08:20 GMT

Thanks Again, Robert!

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

NateRose — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:14:42 GMT

Robert,

Thanks for the update. I added the code from the URL Search Config, initially I got an error while building the project in FB4 with duplicate functions in MapManager.mxml. I looked through the code again and found this additional maploadcomplete function so I commented this out so there was only one reference.

            private function mapLoadComplete(event:MapEvent):void
            {
                // ViewerContainer.dispatchEvent(new AppEvent(AppEvent.LAYER_LOADED));
            }

After I did that I'm getting an error saying this:

Encountered errors or warnings while building project LayerListWidget.mxml.
    MapManager.mxml: Access of possibly undefined property urlConfigParams through a reference
       with static type Class.
    MapManager.mxml: Attempted access of inaccessible method getWidgetId through a reference
       with static type com.esri.viewer:ViewerContainer.

My Enhanced Search widget is labeled "Search" so I changed the .getWidgetId("Enhanced Search"); to .getWidgetId("Search"); I thought this might have helped but I'm still getting the same error and it lists it through each widget in the error dialog.

Nate

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:18:31 GMT

Nate,

Did you notice my comment that the new version is only for FlexViewer 2.3?

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

NateRose — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:53:28 GMT

Robert,

Yes, I first copied over the files to upgrade to 2.3 and then made the code changes. Does it look like an issue with the upgrade to 2.3?

Nate

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:14:15 GMT

Nate,

Yep you must have an issue with your copy, there would not have been a mapLoadComplete function in the 2.3 version of the MapManager.mxml

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

NateRose — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:20:21 GMT

Robert,

I no longer had the 2.3 files so I downloaded the 2.3.1 flexviewer and it worked fine with no errors. When I put the "?search=Owner&slayer=0&exprnum=3&showdatagrid=true" parameters in the it loads the page as usual but runs no search.

If that is a compatibility issue with 2.3.1, is there a way to get 2.3 un-compiled? I don't see it on the download page for previous versions.

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:29:21 GMT

Nate,

I don't think that the search=Owner is correct.

search=x x is suppose to be the actual value that is searched for.
&exprnum=3 so this means you have 4 expressions defined in your xml file then right? Expressions numbers start at 0 as most all enumerations do.

Re: Enhanced Search Widget URL Search Configuration

NateRose — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:59:38 GMT

You are right on the "exprnum=3", should be 2 since I have 3 layers. As for the search=Owner, its an attribute in the CULPR field. Maybe this will help you see what I got going on. Still nothing when I change it to "exprnum=2" though.

<expressions>
             <expression alias="Status" textsearchlabel="Search Status (Owner/Renter) [ Example: Owner ]:">upper(CULPR) = upper('[value]')</expression>

<expression alias="Improvements" textsearchlabel="Search by Improvements [ Example: Y or N ]:">upper(Improvement) = upper('[value]')</expression>

<expression alias="Price" textsearchlabel="Search Price Range By Code [ Example: A($0-10,000), B($10,000-20,000), C($20,000-50,000), or D($50,000+)]:">upper(classcode) = upper('[value]')</expression>
            </expressions>