Editing the Locator Widget

[NeilMillward]

I would like to add an example of what people should type into the street box such as "300 E Chapman Ave" so that they type in the correct format to locate the address.

On the standard locator widget there is a label that says "Enter the Address". I would like to be able to modify this to say " Enter the Address eg: 300 E Chapman Ave" but I cannot find where or how to do this. I have looked at the code in the LocateWidget.xml file but could not find this text.

Any help would be appreciated.

[RhettZufelt]

Here are the available "labels" for the locate widget.  Can be found in the VewerStrings.properties file:

########## Locate Widget
locateSubmitLabel=Locate
addressLabel=Address
coordinatesLabel=Coordinates
addressTitle=Enter the address
coordinatesTitle=Enter the coordinates
xLabel=Longitude (X)
yLabel=Latitude (Y)
locationsLabel=Locations found:
bingCulture=en-US
requiredFields=Required fields:
requiredField=Required field:
deleteResultTooltip=Delete result
resultScoreText=Score:
bingResultConfidenceText=Confidence:

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[NeilMillward]

Thanks Rhett. Where would I find the ViewerStrings.properties file?

[RhettZufelt]

Assuming you are using the source code, would be in the locale/en_US folder in FlashBuilder package explorer.

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[NeilMillward]

I am using the compiled version. I don't have FlashBuilder.

[AnthonyGiles]

Neil,

If you are using the out of the box locator widget you can use the addresstitle tag under labels to provide what ever example you would like, see:

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/flex-viewer/concepts/index.html#/Locate_widget_tags/01m30000000r...

Regards

Anthony

E.g.

<labels>
   <addresstitle>Enter House Number & Street Name e.g. 300 New Street</addresstitle>
</labels>

[NeilMillward]

Thanks Anthony.

I am pretty new to this. There doesn't seem to be anywhere in the application builder to do this. Do I just need to add these edits to the LocateWidget.xml.

This is my current file.

?xml version="1.0" ?>
<configuration>
    <locator>http://civ-gisapp-vm1:6080/arcgis/rest/services/AddressPointLocator/GeocodeServer</locator>
    <usesearchextent>false</usesearchextent>
    <minscore>10</minscore>
    <zoomscale>10000</zoomscale>
</configuration>

[RhettZufelt · Accepted solution]

Thanks Anthony. 

I am pretty new to this. There doesn't seem to be anywhere in the application builder to do this. Do I just need to add these edits to the LocateWidget.xml. 

This is my current file. 

?xml version="1.0" ?> <configuration>     <labels>         <addresstitle>Enter the Address eg: 300 E Chapman Ave</addresstitle>     </labels>         <locator>http://civ-gisapp-vm1:6080/arcgis/rest/services/AddressPointLocator/GeocodeServer</locator>     <usesearchextent>false</usesearchextent>     <minscore>10</minscore>     <zoomscale>10000</zoomscale> </configuration>

I don't use app builder, but you should be able to add it in the LocateWidget.xml.

R_

[NeilMillward]

Thanks Rhett this worked.