Bing and Sample Flex Viewer (v 1.3)

SusanMordy1 · ‎05-12-2010

I have been provided with the following information from our ArcGIS server administrator:

http://servername/pub/vet/jsp/vetoken.jsp

for using Bing in Flex.

The resource center provides the following document for using Bing Maps in Flex:

http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/flex/help/index.html#ve_gettingstarted.htm?

In the config.xml file for the sample flex viewer (v 1.3) there is mention of bing:

//uncomment lines below to view virtual earth maps;comment arcgisonline map configuration above (elements: map, basemaps, mapservice)


I am not sure what I specifically need to change to the sample flex viewer code (v 1.3) and what specific additional information I will need from my ArcGIS server administrator.

Thanks for you help,

Susan

SusanMordy1 · ‎05-20-2010

Has anyone got their Bing service working with the SFV 1.3 and could provide an example?

Thanks,

Susan

GarrettMcBride · ‎05-25-2010

Please if anyone has any helpful insight to how to get bing to work please email me. I can't find any real documentation to get this to work. Everything i have tried has been trial in error with no luck. The maps do not appear but i still get an x/y coordinate and can still search and locate cities with correct coordinates. I have to be close. I commented out the ESRI basemaps and then uncommented out the Bing. I then exported out a vetoken.ashx and put it in my IIS configured with user name and password that i got via ArcSOM. When you go directly to the vetoken (http://domain/vetoken.ashx) it gives a token (ex {"token":"mqc8vRfhMmisbouPhkvibwB6Etl_feVl9J5ET15qsjKzHQ3qqv4PVk4JqNLYq0bx2WgE2XXNnaKX-a8UljHp6w2"} ) which makes me think i am leaving out something small. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Garrett McBride

Email: garrett.mcbride@mustangeng.com

ChrisClose · ‎07-16-2010

Please follow these steps to get access to BING maps in the Sample Flex Viewer (SFV) v 1.3 (these instructions assume the SFV is set up in the IIS wwwroot folder):

1. Open the config.xml file and comment out the original map tag. Below is what the code should look like:



2. Uncomment the secondary map tag. Be sure to comment OUT the first line - the line starts with "//". Below is what the code should look like:


      <map initialExtent="-1.3861396457346804E7 2959641.7352047404 -8172035.568026077 6452508.179723226" fullExtent="-1.2836528782099428E7 -4344069.191498438 9920914.775183456 9627396.586575491">
      <basemaps menu="menuMap">
                <mapservice label="Road" type="virtualearth" visible="true" style="road" alpha="1" icon="com/esri/solutions/flexviewer/assets/images/icons/i_globe.png">http://[machine]/vetoken.ashx</mapservice>
                <mapservice label="Aerial" type="virtualearth" visible="false" style="aerial" alpha="1" icon="com/esri/solutions/flexviewer/assets/images/icons/i_globe.png">http://[machine]/vetoken.ashx</mapservice>
      </basemaps>

3. At the end of each map service url above, there is a link to the vetoken file. Change the [machine] in the http://[machine]/vetoken.ashx to match your machine. For example:

http://yourmachine/vetoken.ashx

4. Save the file.

5. Copy the vetoken.ashx file to your wwwroot dir. For example: "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot"

Notes:
- If this file in any other folder, you will not be able to access BING maps
- To get a copy of this file, see Step 2 in the help: http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/flex/help/index.html

6. Edit the vetoken.ashx to add your username and password and your host machine. The following areas need changed: "your username", "your password", and "yourmachine" as illustrated below:

    // set your VE credentials
    private string userName = "your username";
    private string password = "your password";

    // set your allowed referers
    // For ex.: "http://www.esri.com/myapp/"

    private string[] refererURLs = {
                                     "http://yourmachine",
                                     //"http://[replace]",
                                   };

7. Save the file
8. Open a browser and test app.