topic Re: view attachments? in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

view attachments?

PaulPetersen — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:43:37 GMT

Just wondering if the new Attachments feature can be consumed in the Flexviewer? I see that it is accessible from REST, so it's possible, right? Are there any existing widget out there that expose Attachments yet?

http://help.arcgis.com/EN/arcgisserver/10.0/apis/rest/index.html

Re: view attachments?

AniketWani — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:17:26 GMT

Have you looked at Edit Widget? It has functionality to add and delete the attachments. In editor attachments is a part of attribute editing.

Edit Widget Doc - http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/help/index.html#widgets/edit_widget.htm

Edit widget live - http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/live/index.html?config=config-edit.xml

Just wondering if the new Attachments feature can be consumed in the Flexviewer? I see that it is accessible from REST, so it's possible, right? Are there any existing widget out there that expose Attachments yet?

http://help.arcgis.com/EN/arcgisserver/10.0/apis/rest/index.html

Re: view attachments?

TedChapin — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:41:47 GMT

Does it have to be in an Edit widget? It would be nice if you could view the attachments in a standard identify window, so users can view but not edit the attachments.

Re: view attachments?

PaulPetersen — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:17:22 GMT

Does it have to be in an Edit widget? It would be nice if you could view the attachments in a standard identify window, so users can view but not edit the attachments.

Yes, I think this is what I was getting at. I just want to be able to click on a feature, ideally with the Identify widget, and return all of the attributes, plus the attachments. This would basically mimic ArcMap identify functionality.

Re: view attachments?

AniketWani — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:01:10 GMT

This is possible with API component called Attribute Inspector and Attachment Inspector.
Here are the samples:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/samples/index.html?sample=AttachmentInspectorInfoWindow
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/samples/index.html?sample=AttributeInspectorInfoWindowViewonly

Specifically for Viewer you need to develop your own widget using those component.

Re: view attachments?

BarrettStanke — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:49:11 GMT

Are you looking for something like this?

Re: view attachments?

PaulPetersen — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:59:06 GMT

Are you looking for something like this?

Yes.

@aniket: thanks. Just knowing that there's not already a widget for this gives a starting point.

Re: view attachments?

BarrettStanke — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:30:22 GMT

The above image is a reconfigured InfoTemplate widget that includes attachment links as seen. Everything acts the same as the original except one line needs to be added to the individual config files:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
- <configuration>
<fields>Name,OBJECTID</fields>
<layername>Common Areas</layername>
<titlefield />
<linkfield />
<datefields />
- 
<zoomscale>5000</zoomscale>
</configuration>

Re: view attachments?

HaroldBostic — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:10:33 GMT

Hello Barrett,

Do you mind Sharing the source code?

Re: view attachments?

BarrettStanke — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:16:33 GMT

Hello Barrett,

Do you mind Sharing the source code?

Sure. Just know I didn't write it. So can't really answer any questions in regards to the coding, just the implementation of it. Dave Spriggs out of the ESRI - St. Charles office worked with a developer to put it together.

For some reason, it's not working with the Flex 2.2 Update though. Works fine with the Flex 2.1 version.

All changes are just in the SimpleInfoWinWidget.mxml file, see below.

Re: view attachments?

SimonMorgan — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:02:04 GMT

Sure. Just know I didn't write it. So can't really answer any questions in regards to the coding, just the implementation of it. Dave Spriggs out of the ESRI - St. Charles office worked with a developer to put it together.

For some reason, it's not working with the Flex 2.2 Update though. Works fine with the Flex 2.1 version.

All changes are just in the SimpleInfoWinWidget.mxml file, see below.

Has anyone got this to work with 2.2?

Re: view attachments?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:48:09 GMT

Simon,

Hang tight I have one coming out next month that handles hyperlinks, displays attachments, queries and displays relates in a floating data grid. I am real happy with it and I think that it will answer a lot of what people are asking for and it does it in the manner that (I think) esri intended identifying to occur.

Re: view attachments?

SimonMorgan — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:47:07 GMT

Simon,

Hang tight I have one coming out next month that handles hyperlinks, displays attachments, queries and displays relates in a floating data grid. I am real happy with it and I think that it will answer a lot of what people are asking for and it does it in the manner that (I think) esri intended identifying to occur.

Thank you for your reply. My users really appreciate all the quality tools that you have produced.