topic Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RhettZufelt — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:18:13 GMT

Was noticing this new feature of the FV.

???Automatic map attribution displays the map copyrights at the bottom of the map. If it is long, it will end with "..." and can be clicked to see the full attribution (copyrights).

I like the info showing, but it is appending information onto the descriptions I have in the service. It is appending our company name and a pipe (|) in front of the actual text from the credits box regardless of where the data comes from.

Wondering where it is getting this extra information from so that I can remove it, otherwise, it tries to give us credit for "any" basemaps.

R_

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:20:24 GMT

Rhett,

There is nothing exposed about Attribution in the API (that I can find) so I would look at your operational layers and see which one has strings that match what you are not wanting to see.

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

HeatherGonzago — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:55:51 GMT

The attributionvisible tag can be set to false. Take a look at http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/flex-viewer/concepts/index.html#/Main_configuration_file/01m300000018000000/.

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:00:24 GMT

Heather,

Thanks, I worded that responce wrong... I did find the ability to turn attribution on and off as in the link you provided. I did not find anything about where it gets the strings from to use in the attribution.

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RhettZufelt — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:15:37 GMT

I have searched high and low for the string that is being appended to the credits, and can't seem to locate it anywhere on my filesystem, or server. The only place I can find the text that is being appended is that it is the title of my Flexviewer app. However, if I change the title of my app, it does NOT change the text being appended to the credits.

Still have no clue where it is getting our company name and appending it on there, but I like the utility of the attribution, just not the appending.
Also, it is the text that show as the attributions if you do NOT have any credits in your service (IE, you always get something when attributionvisible="true", where does it get this?)

Guess if I can't figure it out, back to the copyright widget, though I hate using widgets for something that is built into the API.

R_

Also, where would one modify the font of the attributes to be similar to the copyright widget? That one puts a white halo around black text, the autoatributes buts gray text with no halo, and it easily gets washed out when there is any imagery in the background.

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

GISDev1 — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:13:16 GMT

I have searched high and low for the string that is being appended to the credits, and can't seem to locate it anywhere on my filesystem, or server. The only place I can find the text that is being appended is that it is the title of my Flexviewer app. However, if I change the title of my app, it does NOT change the text being appended to the credits.

Still have no clue where it is getting our company name and appending it on there, but I like the utility of the attribution, just not the appending.
Also, it is the text that show as the attributions if you do NOT have any credits in your service (IE, you always get something when attributionvisible="true", where does it get this?)

Guess if I can't figure it out, back to the copyright widget, though I hate using widgets for something that is built into the API.

R_

Also, where would one modify the font of the attributes to be similar to the copyright widget? That one puts a white halo around black text, the autoatributes buts gray text with no halo, and it easily gets washed out when there is any imagery in the background.

Have you checked in all of the REST properties, as well as each layer properties in your mxd's, each data frame properties in each mxd, and each mxd properties as well? Or maybe in the metadata of any layer?

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RhettZufelt — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:29:39 GMT

I have searched high and low.

The only place I can find the text being appended is on the sign on the front of my building and company letterhead 🙂

I even created a new FGDB, with new polygon FC inside it and no data (so it is blank). then open ArcMap and add, save as new file, and publish as new service.
No metadata, no description, to credits, no properties, NOTHING. yet, it still puts the company name at the bottom when I choose that service.

R_

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:28:53 GMT

Rhett,

Also, where would one modify the font of the attributes to be similar to the copyright widget? That one puts a white halo around black text, the autoatributes buts gray text with no halo, and it easily gets washed out when there is any imagery in the background.

The text is actually black but it's alpha makes it look gray. Anyway you have to work with the AttributionSkin.mxml from the API

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RhettZufelt — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:34:57 GMT

Ok, I figured out where it is coming from. (layer.copyright)

I installed the copyright widget and, with operational layers=true, I get the same thing. So, it was finding the copyright text of one of the operational layers in the map and appending it to all the other credits that I have on the basemaps.

So far, I don't see a way to turn off the operational layers of the auto attributes, so I either need to go remove/delete all copyright info from all my operational layers OR set to false and go back to the copyright widget with includeoperationallayers=true.

R_

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RhettZufelt — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:37:01 GMT

Thanks Robert,

If I ever get it working as needed, I will look into that.

For now, I have decided to go with the working, and configurable CopyRightWidget.

Thanks again,

R_

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RhettZufelt — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:15:32 GMT

Rhett,

The text is actually black but it's alpha makes it look gray. Anyway you have to work with the AttributionSkin.mxml from the API

Ok, decided to try it, but not getting any changes. Is this supposed to automatically pick up the AttributionSkin like it does the PopupRendererSkin or does one need to add an entry to the default.css for this to be utilized?

AttributionSkin.mxml is in /com/esri/ags/skins/

R_

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:18:03 GMT

Rhett,

I would think that it would pick it up automatically. Have you tried closing Flash Builder and clearing your browser cache?

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RhettZufelt — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 23:14:33 GMT

You are correct, it appears as if it is being utilized. Did not look like it as none of the changes I made were taking effect.
Put a trace in there and saw that it was being read, so had to figure out how to modify it.

the one alpha in there (alpha.disabled="0.5") has no effect, no matter what you change it to, if I add alpha.normal="1.0", then it makes the text black.

The glow filter does not get applied, and needs to be copied/moved to the label1 label block, then it will apply it (does not appear as if lable2 is ever used).

Also, to change the font family/size/weight, I put that in the label1 tag as as such:

 <s:Label id="label1"
    left="0" right="0" bottom="0"
    click="label1_clickHandler(event)"
    maxDisplayedLines="1"
    showTruncationTip="false"
    text="{hostComponent.text}"
    textAlign="right"
    color="black"
    fontFamily="Veranda"
    fontWeight="bold"
    fontSize="9"
    visible="true">
 <s:filters>
  <s:GlowFilter blurX="2"
       blurY="2"
       color="0xFFFFFF"
       strength="7"/>
 </s:filters>
 </s:Label>

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:04:19 GMT

Rhett,

I guess it would help you if I explain how this works. Label1 is the label that shows on the map normally, If label1 is truncated then label2 is shown when you click on label1 and is a multiline label with the halo.

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RhettZufelt — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:43:39 GMT

Thanks Robert,

That makes more sense now.

I saw that it gets switched if truncated, but wasn't sure how it would test for that since I don't really know what is being passed to the skin. Even tried to trace the info coming in, but no luck. I had some pretty long labels for testing, must not have hit the truncation threshold to trigger label2.

Now I see that label1.isTruncated must be passed as just a boolean property for label1 from the API?

Thanks again for the clarification,

R_

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

GISDev1 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:56:31 GMT

Ok, I figured out where it is coming from. (layer.copyright)

R_

Where is this copyright populated???

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

RhettZufelt — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:03:28 GMT

It gets populated with the text from the "Credits" box in the ArcMap documents layer properties.

The dataframe and layers within it have thier own "Credits" box.

R_

Re: FV 3.1 automatic map attribution data

GISDev1 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:13:00 GMT

It gets populated with the text from the "Credits" box in the ArcMap documents layer properties.

The dataframe and layers within it have thier own "Credits" box.

R_

Gotcha, thanks for tracking it down and posting back here for everyone else to know.