topic Feature Blurb Widget in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-flex-questions/feature-blurb-widget/m-p/207663#M6406 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Have you ever had a user ask if they could just label an item on the map by some arbitrary attribute without manually typing anything in? No? Damn, well I have, sucks for me.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Anyway, I had this tool already built as a standalone component, but decided to throw it into a widget so we could use it in a generic Flexviewer app that we have.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c09a6d1fd0514b36a761a29b11b60047">http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c09a6d1fd0514b36a761a29b11b60047</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It basically works like this.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Select a service from the Map.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Select a layer from the selected Service.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Select a field from that layer.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Click add label and click on a feature in the layer.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>To get back to a different Service or Layer, click on the corresponding buttons above the list.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The tool uses the IdentifyTask so that I could use the tolerance capabilities for point features (big deal for me), so it only works with Services that support Identify. So no FeatureServer services, sorry.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If I get around to it, I might be able to add QueryTask functionality for those special use cases, if it seems like a big deal for folks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:40:45 GMT ReneRubalcava 2010-12-28T20:40:45Z Feature Blurb Widget https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-flex-questions/feature-blurb-widget/m-p/207663#M6406 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Have you ever had a user ask if they could just label an item on the map by some arbitrary attribute without manually typing anything in? No? Damn, well I have, sucks for me.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Anyway, I had this tool already built as a standalone component, but decided to throw it into a widget so we could use it in a generic Flexviewer app that we have.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c09a6d1fd0514b36a761a29b11b60047">http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c09a6d1fd0514b36a761a29b11b60047</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It basically works like this.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Select a service from the Map.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Select a layer from the selected Service.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Select a field from that layer.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Click add label and click on a feature in the layer.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>To get back to a different Service or Layer, click on the corresponding buttons above the list.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The tool uses the IdentifyTask so that I could use the tolerance capabilities for point features (big deal for me), so it only works with Services that support Identify. So no FeatureServer services, sorry.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If I get around to it, I might be able to add QueryTask functionality for those special use cases, if it seems like a big deal for folks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:40:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-flex-questions/feature-blurb-widget/m-p/207663#M6406 ReneRubalcava 2010-12-28T20:40:45Z