topic Re: Is there a Find tool available? in ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight Questions

Is there a Find tool available?

IanPeebles — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:36:40 GMT

Looking for a find tool that I can use to locate neighborhoods, plats, lots and etc. On the user side, I would like them to click on a icon on the toolbar that initiates the tool. I then want a form to appear that allows the end user to type in their desired search or choose from a drop down list. After the result is found, I want it to zoom to selected features. Below is a sample image of what I am looking for in regards to the find tool. Is this available out-of-the-box or as a add-in?

Re: Is there a Find tool available?

TomMagdaleno — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:02:17 GMT

I have been searching for the same thing. I want something like "Find Features" that is in ArcMap/ArcReader. I did an experiment and tried to trick an address locator to find a polyline with a unique name, but for some reason that does not work. You might experiment with that since the search tool will be able to work with custom locators soon.

Re: Is there a Find tool available?

AlexeyTereshenkov — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:03:10 GMT

There is no ready to use add-in for this functionality. I encourage you to look at GP services which are really easier to set up with ArcGIS Server 10.1. You could choose what column values do you want to read and then let a user to choose a certain value by using the input parameter with list choice input. I've been testing some things with GP services for SL Viewer myself and found that you can reach pretty far without actually coding anything. Particularly with Python integrated into GP service.

Otherwise, you might look at the Samples available at the SL Viewer Resource Center, but you will need to adjust the code anyway which often requires a pretty solid understanding of the ArcGIS API for Silverlight as well as Viewer Extensibility SDK.

Re: Is there a Find tool available?

IanPeebles — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:55:36 GMT

tereshenkov,

I have actually done this and it works well, the only problem is that the choice list needs to have around 1000 choices. . and I haven't figured out how to import this in. This would apply towards neighborhoods or cemetery lot/space searches. Is there a way to import a choice list without having to manually enter in each choice?

Re: Is there a Find tool available?

AlexeyTereshenkov — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:47:14 GMT

Ian, do you really think of showing 1000 choices in the drop-down list for an end user? 😉

Anyways, here is the script.
Generating a multivalue choice list