topic Need URL to open in Current window in ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight Questions

Need URL to open in Current window

Keithzammit — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:31:30 GMT

Hey Guys,

SUPER URGENT question! I have a project where the client would like the map to have a number of links at the top and these links would take the user to another site with another map. Now it's important that the current session closes. I am currently using the link available from the (title and Links) option in the viewer but clicking on these just opens a new window and leaves the current one open! Any ideas?

I also found the code in the config/application.xml file which takes care of these links:

<HelpLinks>
    <HelpLink>
      <Url>http://www.newurl.com</Url>
      <DisplayText>newUrl</DisplayText>
    </HelpLink>
  </HelpLinks>

Maybe I can modify that to make it target the same window it's in?

Keith

Re: Need URL to open in Current window

BrianLeroux — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:29:38 GMT

You can change this by modifying the map layout that you are using. You need to find the correct layout xaml by looking in the .../config/layouts folder. In your layout xaml there should be a section for the HelpLinks. The line you need to search for will be <HyperlinkButton NavigateUri="{Binding Url}" TargetName="_blank" Foreground="{StaticResource AccentTextColorBrush}" >. You need to change TargetName="_blank" to TargetName="_self".

Each layout is dirrefernt so i can't tell you which line it will be in the xaml. if you can't find it just let me know which layout you are using and i will take a look at that specific layout.

Hope that helps..