topic Identify Tool that can handle Related Objects? in ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight Questions

Identify Tool that can handle Related Objects?

IanPeebles — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:21:16 GMT

Is ESRI planning to release a identify tool that is capable of allowing the end user to identify related objects?

In our organization, we have around 60 or so related objects and want to be able to identify them within the application. ArcGIS Users in our organization like functionality the identify tool that was in the old web adf more than the pop-ups tool.

Re: Identify Tool that can handle Related Objects?

KatherineDalton — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:53:04 GMT

Hi Ian,

Yes, we're currently working on an extended version of the Query Related Records tool that we released previously on ArcGIS Online. This should be included in our next release or shortly thereafter. We're tentatively looking at late December/early January for our next release.

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=044f7170f1f9423b8026719e1d9e4510

Also note that "vasnake" wrote an extended version that you might want to look at, too.

Katy

Re: Identify Tool that can handle Related Objects?

IanPeebles — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:05:30 GMT

I have seen this sample. This is tied to the pop-up. .is that correct? Instead of the pop-up, I would rather see a identify tool where we can click on a plus sign to drill down to the related objects and something that is configurable.

Re: Identify Tool that can handle Related Objects?

KatherineDalton — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:18:40 GMT

Hi Ian,

Okay, I see what you mean on how you would prefer to see it implemented, which sounds very similar to the workflow in ArcMap. Our pop-up functionality is essentially Identify functionality with a different look and feel. The current implementation of the Query Related Records tool is designed to take advantage of the existing framework in the SL Viewer. For example, when you click on a feature in the map, the pop-up (Identify) displays all the attribute information on the layer or feature. So when accessing the pop-up programmatically, you get all of the information you need to work with the layer and retrieve related records and so on (this is why the tool is attached to the popup.) Secondly, the SL Viewer's attribute table is designed to display attributes, so we simply take advantage of that built-in functionalty, instead of re-creating an attribute grid inside another dialog (which you could certainly do).

I hope that helps explain a bit of the process on our end.

Katy