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Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

DerekLaw — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:35:34 GMT

We would like to announce the Flex-A-Widget Challenge, a developer competition for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex. The challenge: either modify an existing widget or create your own custom widget for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex application, then submit it as part of the Viewer code gallery.

The widget must work on the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.2 or higher release. You can enter as many widgets as you like for the competition. If you have previously submitted a widget onto the Viewer code gallery, you are welcome to enter them into this competition.

We recommend that you submit the following as part of your widget entry:

A compiled version of your widget that works in the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex application

The source code for your widget

A ReadMe file that explains what the widget does and how to install/configure it

An associated sample service available to see it in action (if needed)

The winner of the competition will be decided by public voting.

The Flex-A-Widget Challenge is open to everyone except Esri distributors, Esri employees, or their immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, and children) and household members of such employee or person. Additional information and rules are available from here.

More detailed information on the rules and widget sumbmissions will be posted shortly.

Good luck and we hope you enter often!!!

Sincerely,
The Esri Flex Development team

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

LemvigKommune — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:40:15 GMT

Hi Derek

how does the thing about you writing that if one have submitted a widget to the gallery, one can enter them to the competition, when the official rules for the competition item 6 states the following:

"Contest Period: Widget Sample(s) may be submitted after 9:00 a.m. Pacific standard time (PST) on Friday, January 14, 2011, and must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. PST Friday, February 25, 2011 ("Contest Period"). Widget Sample(s) received before or after these dates and times will not be considered. Widget Sample(s) is considered received when accepted by Sponsor."

Mads Gren

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

DerekLaw — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:22:14 GMT

Hi Mads,

Great question. Unfortunately, the terminology used in the official rules for the competition is a little confusing. In the quote you reference:

"Contest Period: Widget Sample(s) may be submitted after 9:00 a.m. Pacific standard time (PST) on Friday, January 14, 2011, and must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. PST Friday, February 25, 2011 ("Contest Period"). Widget Sample(s) received before or after these dates and times will not be considered. Widget Sample(s) is considered received when accepted by Sponsor."

The term "Widget Sample(s)" really means "widget competition entry form" and not the actual submission/upload of the widget(s) onto the Viewer code gallery. So, widgets that are already available on the Viewer code gallery can be entered into the competition, as long as the "widget competition entry form" is submitted within the time period specified by the official rules. Does that make sense?

FYI: The Flex-A-Widget Challenge official rules

FYI 2: Due to technical difficulties on our end, "widget competition entry forms" cannot be submitted today. We will start accepting widget entry forms starting Wednesday Janurary 19th, 2011.

Hope this helps,

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

LemvigKommune — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:59:57 GMT

thanks for the news, but i think you should put that information on the competition site as well.

Mads

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

DerekLaw — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:56:36 GMT

Hi Mads,

Good idea. We are working on updating the competition page.

Thanks for your suggestion,

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:45:28 GMT

Derek,

Are we still waiting on the entry form to be completed? Any ETA on when this will be available?

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

DerekLaw — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:11:16 GMT

Hi Robert,

I believe the widget submission entry form is live now:

Submit Your Widget to the Flex-A-Widget Challenge

(FYI: this is linked from the competition homepage)

Is it not working for you?

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

ReneRubalcava — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:16:53 GMT

It wasn't up this morning when Robert posted, but I just submitted my widgets and seems to work fine. Is there a page where we can see what we submitted? Or will it just warn us that the link was already submitted? I only ask, because I almost submitted a widget twice while I had a dozen browser tabs open.

Thanks and this is kind of fun.

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:17:10 GMT

Derek,

OK, the issue is that the the http://www.esri.com/events/devsummit/pdfs/widget-instructions.pdf has what looks like clickable links to the the entry form, code gallery, etc. But they are not actual hyperlinks.

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

DerekLaw — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:15:16 GMT

Hi Rene,

... Is there a page where we can see what we submitted? Or will it just warn us that the link was already submitted? ...

Currently, we don't have a Web page that shows which widgets have been submitted for the competition. When we open up voting, we'll have a compiled list of all the widget entries.

After you've submitted a widget for the competition, you should receive a confirmation email. As this is the first day, there may be a slight delay. 🙂

Additionally, if you followed the submission steps, you should have tagged your widget item with the word "challenge". You can do a quick search in the Viewer code gallery for "challenge" and filter for widgets to verify that you're entry was made.

Hi Robert,

... the issue is that the the http://www.esri.com/events/devsummit/pdfs/widget-instructions.pdf has what looks like clickable links to the the entry form, code gallery, etc. But they are not actual hyperlinks.

Thanks for catching this. We are working on correcting the links and updating the doc.

Good luck to both of you and thanks for participating,

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

DerekLaw — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:03:45 GMT

All,

Just a reminder that the Flex-A-Widget Challenge deadline is this Friday Feb 18th!!!

All widgets on the Viewer code gallery are eligible for the competition as long as they work with ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.2 or higher. Please ensure that your widgets are submitted by the deadline.

Good luck and thanks for your participation,

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

JoshWhite — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:40:36 GMT

All,

Just a reminder that the Flex-A-Widget Challenge deadline is this Friday Feb 18th!!!

All widgets on the Viewer code gallery are eligible for the competition as long as they work with ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.2 or higher. Please ensure that your widgets are submitted by the deadline.

Good luck and thanks for your participation,

Earlier in the thread it says Feb 25 not the 18th.

I was going to suggest that if somebody really wants to create a widget, one on my wish list is some sort of enhanced print widget or CreatePDF widget. The operations dashboard template has a CreatePDF widget but I can't seem to replicate it and don't know who wrote the code. If something like this was available on the Resource Center I would be really happy.

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

DerekLaw — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:36:08 GMT

Hi Josh,

Earlier in the thread it says Feb 25 not the 18th.

Apologies for the oversight, the closing date in my initial post was incorrect.

Hope this helps,

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

DerekLaw — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:52:50 GMT

All,

I am very excited to post the list of widget submissions for the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex. There are 24 entries in total, in alphabetical order:

Advanced Drawing Widget for Flex Viewer 2.2

Advanced Java PrintSOE with simple Flex widget as client

Attachment Relate Info Window Widget version 2.2.1 for FlexViewer

AutocompleteSearch v1.2

Batch Geocoder Widget

Coordinate Menu Widget

Drag and Drop Map Services Widget

Drive Time Calculator

Enhanced Bookmark Widget

Enhanced Search Widget version 2.2.9 for FlexViewer 2.x

Export To Shapefile (AS3 Shapefile Writing Library)

Feature Blurb Widget

Flickr Photo Viewer Widget

Geolocation Widget

Google Street View Widget for the Flexviewer

Groupon Deals Widget

Identify Widget 2.0

Identify Widget version 2.2.2 for FlexViewer 2.x

Layers Manager Widget

Route Widget version 2.2.3 for FlexViewer

Selection Widget

Simple Reverse Geocoder

Street View and More â?? Widget for FlexViewer 2.*

Zillow Widget for FlexViewer 2.x

If you haven't already, please click the links and explore these widgets which add some great new functionality to the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex. These developers have done some pretty amazing stuff!!! Then please vote on your top favorite 3 widgets.

Eligible voters for the Flex-A-Widget Challenge include the following:

Esri 2011 Dev Summit attendees

Esri EDN subscribers

Current Esri customers (e.g., on maintenance)

If you qualify in one of the groups, you will receive an email with information on how to vote for your top favorite 3 widgets in the challenge.

I encourage all users who have used these widgets and qualify to vote to please submit your vote ASAP. These developers have done a fantastic job of helping out the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex user community by sharing their development efforts.

The winners of the Flex-A-Widget Challenge will be annouced at Esri Dev Summit.

Good luck to all participants,

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

DerekLaw — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:29:41 GMT

Hi Andrea,

The email you receive to vote in the Flex-A-Widget Challenge looks like the screen capture in the attachment to this post. You simply click the orange "Vote Now" button and you should be able to vote.

Hope this helps,

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

JoshWhite — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:04:36 GMT

I tried out several of these, all good. I did have one question though, how are they organized in the code gallery? The order that they come up in makes no sense to me. I think that it should be organized by date added or if you use search, then of course the ability to search by relevance would also be helpful. Switching back and forth would be very beneficial too.

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

DavidMarley — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:23:04 GMT

I think that I deleted the email with the vote link, without realizing that was (apparently) the only way for me to access the voting page. I'm an EDN subscriber and attending the Dev Summit so I definitely qualify to vote.

Any other way to get access to vote other than through the link in the email? If not, any way to get the email resent?

Seems like it has been made very hard to actually vote....

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

DerekLaw — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:51:15 GMT

Hi Josh,

I did have one question though, how are they organized in the code gallery?

That's a good question and I am not 100% sure. The widget organization applies to all the code gallery items for all the Esri Resource Centers. I believe they are sorted by date the item was last modified, but I am checking into this.

Hi David,

Any other way to get access to vote other than through the link in the email? If not, any way to get the email resent?

Apologies for the late reply, I only just saw your post. Unfortunately, voting for the contest closed this morning at 9 am PST. But since you posted your request before that time, I will make an exception for you. Please send me an email: dlaw@esri.com with your votes and I will submit them for the competition.

Hope this helps,

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

EricVenden — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:52:30 GMT

And the winner is????

Re: Announcing: the Flex-A-Widget Challenge for the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:58:01 GMT

And the winners are:

1. Frank Roberts: Street View and More �?? Widget for FlexViewer 2.*
2. Sasa I. : Export To Shapefile (AS3 Shapefile Writing Library)
3. Andrew McNaughton : Google Street View Widget for the Flexviewer