topic Re: Search Widget Question in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Search Widget Question

BenReilly — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:12:17 GMT

I had a quick question regarding the search widget.

Is it possible to get it to return a result from a partial search without needing % at the end of the search? For example, we have a map with building White Hall listed. How can I get White Hall to show up from searching "White" instead of "White%"?

Re: Search Widget Question

BjornSvensson — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:14:08 GMT

You can add the wild card to the search widget configuration file.

<expression>PD_NAME like '[value]%'</expression>

Re: Search Widget Question

JonFisher — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:52:51 GMT

To make it case-insensitive as well (e.g. for 'white' to find 'White Hall') you could use something like:

<expression>lower(PD_NAME) like lower('[value]%')</expression>

Re: Search Widget Question

BenReilly — Mon, 09 May 2011 18:29:28 GMT

Perfect, that does exactly what I need it to. Thank you for your help!

Re: Search Widget Question

JoshJones1 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:46:03 GMT

This thread helped me with two of my three problems I am having with the Search Widget. Maybe one of the previous posters can help me here. I was also wondering how to make it possible to only search a portion of a specific attribute. Let's say I have a "Keywords" attribute column that has many different values that are associated with a specific building, such as departments or services that are located within the specific building. Is it possible to allow the user to type a value that will be SOMEWHERE within the keywords column, or would I have to make a different column that contains each department/service that I want the users to be able to search?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Josh Jones