topic Re: msd and initial extent in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

msd and initial extent

EricGardecki — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:53:31 GMT

I'm having a strange issue regarding the initial extent for my map service in flex viewer.

When I publish a map service as an MXD, all is as expected. If I publish as MSD, the extent is NOT how I set it up in ArcMap. It is zoomed in slightly and the whole map is pushed down enough so that my content is not shown in it's entirety as it should. The preview of the service shows this skewed extent as well.

I couldn't find a solution to this strange behavior so I tried setting the initial extent in the config.xml and that worked....However, now when I use the zoom or pan tools, it works in an opposite fashion. Panning right goes left and vice versa and zooming to a part of the map takes you to a part on the other side instead.

Does this make sense to anyone??

thanks!

Re: msd and initial extent

RaoBase — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:53:37 GMT

Yes, I had similar experience with msd file, and ended up using an mxd file instead.

However I also find that sometimes after closing the browser and opening the application again the initial extent is not taken into
consideration and the map is zoomed fully to the lowest tiled scale. After clearing the cache it is ok again.

Re: msd and initial extent

EricGardecki — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:09:07 GMT

I still never found out why it acted the way it did when specifying an extent in the config but I did fix my issue. It turns out the issue apparently comes from ArcMap when saving the project as an MSD, the "Prepare" window pops up (where map errors/warnings are displayed) and once that happens it skews the extent somehow. All I had to do was zoom to full extent while the Prepare window was open and then save the MSD and the extent was pretty much correct.