topic Re: Why does my layer not create a pop up? in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Why does my layer not create a pop up?

JoshWhite — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:25:06 GMT

I was attempting to just do a simple popup for a layer in my webmap. I wanted to point out that it is time aware and the time widget is enabled if that has anything to do with it. I tried a point feature popup for testing and it worked fine and so I tried a line feature and it also worked. The only difference appears to be the fact that it is time aware and the time widget is enabled.

Re: Why does my time aware layer not create a pop up?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:30:00 GMT

Josh,

So when you say

I tried a point feature popup for testing and it worked fine and so I tried a line feature and it also worked.

do you mean they worked because they were not time aware and you did not have the time widget open?

Re: Why does my time aware layer not create a pop up?

JoshWhite — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:45:54 GMT

The time widget was open when I tried this, the other layers are not time aware. Closing the time widget does not make the layer popup either though.

Re: Why does my time aware layer not create a pop up?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:51:52 GMT

Josh,

So for my testing purposes what is your actual time aware layers geometry that you want to also have a popup on?

Re: Why does my time aware layer not create a pop up?

JoshWhite — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:00:08 GMT

Line

Re: Why does my time aware layer not create a pop up?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:29:06 GMT

Josh,

Is your layer that has the popup defined as a type="feature" or dynamic in your main config.xml?

Re: Why does my time aware layer not create a pop up?

JoshWhite — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:36:46 GMT

it is dynamic

</layer>

</operationallayers>

sublayer 0 is the layer at issue

sublayer 13 the popup worked fine

Re: Why does my time aware layer not create a pop up?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:06:12 GMT

Josh,

It looks like you have the Shape field hidden for some of those layers in that map service!

Re: Why does my time aware layer not create a pop up?

JoshWhite — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:33:11 GMT

I have the Shape filed visible on all of them. I did a quick check to make sure. For some reason some of them have the Shape field down lower though. I'm not sure how that happened, does the order make a difference? The layer in question has it as the second field and is visible

Re: Why does my time aware layer not create a pop up?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:50:00 GMT

Josh,

So your issue has nothing to do with time or the time widget. It has to do with using a reserved word of "Year" as a field name in your data. When I query layer 0 on your map service using outfields = * the query fails every time (this is actually what the map uses as its outfields when it is querying which feature was clicked to display the popup). But when I specify all the fields bu the "Year" field the query works fine. You need to remove the "Year" field from that layer and create a field that does not use the reserved name of "Year" ("Year_" is fine).

Re: Why does my time aware layer not create a pop up?

JoshWhite — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:12:35 GMT

Ah Crap! I hate the reserved word list. I don't understand what it would be used for that needs to be reserved. I will create a new field called Year_ and just but a better alias on it. I appreciate your help on this Robert!

Re: Why does my layer not create a pop up?

JoshWhite — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:15:05 GMT

I changed the original title to reflect the fact that this issue had nothing to do with it being Time aware but was instead a reserved field name being used.