topic Re: Search box widget? in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Questions

Search box widget?

haThach — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:19:55 GMT

When a user enter a search for a particular record, can the result return display multiple field. We have a few duplicate valveID. Instead of returning v-155 three time can I config. the search result to display valveID and system field?

In C:\arcgis-web-appbuilder-2.1\server\apps\9\configs\Search\config_Search.json, I tried to change the displatField but the search did not work. Is this possible?

Re: Search box widget?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:43:23 GMT

Ha,

You would have to add a suggestionTemplate property:

suggestionTemplate: "ID: ${ValveID}, System: ${System}",

Re: Search box widget?

haThach — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 19:15:09 GMT

Thanks, Robert. I tried your suggestion but it return the same three result. Am I missing something?

{
      "layerId": "AquaGIS_Search2_6622_1",
      "url": "MyServiceURL",
      "name": "Valves Search",
      "placeholder": "Place or Address",
      "searchFields": [
        "ValveID"
      ],
      "displayField": "ValveID",
      "suggestionTemplate": "ID: ${ValveID}, System: ${System}",
      "exactMatch": true,
      "searchInCurrentMapExtent": false,
      "zoomScale": 2400,
      "maxSuggestions": 6,
      "maxResults": 6,
      "type": "query",

Re: Search box widget?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 19:34:35 GMT

No. You will only get the double field when a suggestion is presented by the widget.

Re: Search box widget?

haThach — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:18:40 GMT

Robert,

Can you clarify this a bit. I'm currently using ArcGIS Server 10.4.1 which should Supports Pagination: true. I did get a suggest of a single field but not double field. Do I needs to add the system field to the property "displayField"?

Re: Search box widget?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:23:55 GMT

Ha,

No if you read the documentation on the search widget you will see that the displayField can only contain one field name and the suggestionTemplate:

(Added at v. 3.14) A template string used to display multiple fields in a defined order. This only works with feature layer sources and takes precedence over displayField.

Re: Search box widget?

haThach — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:16:20 GMT

Thanks, Robert. It make sense know. I just have to switch my MapServer to FeatureServer and the suggestion should be presented by the widget. Right?

Re: Search box widget?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:19:10 GMT

Nope. The use of a MapServer url is fine as long as you are adding a FeatureLayer as the search widgets source. The only reason to use a FeatureServer ul is when you want to edit that layer.

Re: Search box widget?

haThach — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 05:18:12 GMT

Robert, you got me going in circle. It turns out that I'm already using a dynamic feature layer as a source for searching, which I published as a MapServer. Your suggestion of using a suggestionTemplate did not working for me.

Can you help me determine what I did wrong or point me to a direction of how to display multiple fields.

Thanks,

Re: Search box widget?

deleted-user-CQZbjNeBXm49 — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:48:44 GMT

Ha,

What Robert by featurelayer via your mapserver is this: http://services.arcgis.com/b6gLrKHqgkQb393u/arcgis/rest/services/TaxParcelQuery/MapServer/0

Baba

Re: Search box widget?

haThach — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:31:26 GMT

My mapserver source for searching look like this.

http://pabry280/arcgis/rest/services/AquaGISServices/AquaGIS_Search2/MapServer/1

Re: Search box widget?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 02:58:14 GMT

Ha,

So after checking the search widgets code in WAB the suggestionTemplate is not used in the code. It get it working you will have to add these lines of code to the search/Widget.js file (lines 16 - 19):

              var convertedSource = {
                featureLayer: flayer,
                outFields: ["*"],
                searchFields: fNames,
                displayField: source.displayField || "",
                exactMatch: !!source.exactMatch,
                name: jimuUtils.stripHTML(source.name || ""),
                placeholder: jimuUtils.stripHTML(source.placeholder || ""),
                maxSuggestions: source.maxSuggestions || 6,
                maxResults: source.maxResults || 6,
                zoomScale: source.zoomScale || 50000,
                infoTemplate: template,
                useMapExtent: !!source.searchInCurrentMapExtent,
                _featureLayerId: source.layerId,
              };
              if(source.suggestionTemplate){
                delete convertedSource.displayField;
                convertedSource.suggestionTemplate = source.suggestionTemplate;
              }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Re: Search box widget?

haThach — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:20:24 GMT

You are the man. See Robert, I new that there was something missing and not just adding a suggestionTemplate property. It works great. Thanks you for your time and bearing with me in trying to explain my issue.

To those who wanted to do this.

Recap of what I did base on Robert suggestion.

Add code to widget.js and config_Search.json. See below.....

Thanks,

Ha Thach

Re: Search box widget?

haThach — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:53:43 GMT

Robert - I got the suggestionTemplatet to work but despite setting it to exact match, the search executes a LIKE search. Is there a way to fix this?

Re: Search box widget?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:58:51 GMT

Ha Thach,

Having suggestion enabled if you want to use exact match is counter productive. The whole purpose of suggestions is to provide possible result using a like if you do not want this then disable suggestions. What the exact match does is it will force you to choose one of the suggestions to get a result if you did not have exact match selected and you type 862 and hit enter then the first result that matched 862 would be selected.

Re: Search box widget?

haThach — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:13:17 GMT

Thanks, Robert for your input. The simple solution on my end would be to increase the "maxSuggestions" result value.

Re: Search box widget?

DiegoLlamasOlivares — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:50:58 GMT

Hello Robert,

I want to show on display field different result for example this units at what sector belongs so, display two results. I need to use web app builder developer right, this is not out of the box option. ?

Regards,

DLL