topic Re: Hyperlink field in identify tool - help in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Hyperlink field in identify tool - help

RandellMcGlynn — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:19:33 GMT

Hi, I'm kind of new to arcgis viewer for flex, but I've started a project where I have service on a a GIS Server and one of the fields is a link to an image. An example of what a field would have is just the name of the file. so under field "photolink" the data would be "picture1.jpg".

What I would like to do is have it so that when the user clicks on a symbol, the photolink field is a link to "Networkdrive/project/pictures/picture1.jpg". Is this possible?

I've done some searching around on google and found some modified widgets that allow for hyper link fields, but I cannot figure out how to use them. I copy the xml and mxml file over to the folder with the original identify widget folder, but it does not seem to do anything.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Re: Hyperlink field in identify tool - help

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:39:58 GMT

Randell,

Look here.

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=39cf66d58c234279ba728c50461a1a89

Re: Hyperlink field in identify tool - help

RandellMcGlynn — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:55:38 GMT

Nice. This works really well. The only issue I am having is having it link to a picture on a network drive ex:

T:\Folder1\Folder2\image.jpg

Where the linkfield is "image"
The linkprefix is "T:\Folder1\Folder2\"
and the linksuffix is ".jpg"

I've got it to work well if I have the pictures right in the folder with the flex application and nothing for the prefix, but having it connect to a network drive is another story. I've tried switching the slashes around, that did not work though.

Anyone run into this issue?

Thanks.

Re: Hyperlink field in identify tool - help

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:22:44 GMT

Randell,

You need to setup a virtual directory in iis if that is what you are using as your web server. The web server does not have permission to access the network drive.