Enhanced-Search-Widget-for-FlexViewer Part II

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

All,

   I am pleased to announce the next release of my eSearch Widget.

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=5d4995ccdb99429185dfd8d8fb2a513e

Version 2.5.1.7 - 4/19/2012
* Added ability to search (flat/standalone/no geometry) tables.
* This time all Zooming uses the same scaling (popup, datagrid, widget results, zoom to all).
* Added Relates icon/button to datagrids so that you can click on it in the datagrid to
  open relates choice dialog.
* Move all skins to a skins package for cleaner organization.
* Links that are not associated with a field now work.
* Ability to disable the relates tab in the fixed widget is now configurable.

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Glenn,

does this code mean that if i have the tag useUTC='true' then i should be getting the time corrected to my timezone.?
Yes (that's the way it is suppose to work based on my understanding).

how does it know what my timezone is?
It (flash Player) gets it from the client machine

is it looking at the time on the webserver?
No the Client Machine

if i dont use the tag then i would get UTC time?
Yes (that's the way it is suppose to work based on my understanding).

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Jane,

   Not that I am aware of.

[glennhazelton]

ok i have put in a help request to ESRI.
i will let you know what they figure out..
thanks for your clear and expert help.

Glenn,

does this code mean that if i have the tag useUTC='true' then i should be getting the time corrected to my timezone.?
Yes (that's the way it is suppose to work based on my understanding).

how does it know what my timezone is?
It (flash Player) gets it from the client machine

is it looking at the time on the webserver?
No the Client Machine

if i dont use the tag then i would get UTC time?
Yes (that's the way it is suppose to work based on my understanding).

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Glenn,

  Have you tried with the OTB search widget. Because they will not give you supoort for my widget but they will if it does the same in the OTB search widget.

[JaneCopeland]

Robert,

I've played around with this a little more and have found something interesting (at least to me). As I said, after I do a search if I use the zoom-in tool from the navigation bar I lose my pop-ups. Now I find that if I click on the zoom-in tool from the navigation bar, zoom in, then switch back to the pan tool, my pop-ups come back (even if I don't actually pan). Does this make any sense to you?

Jane

[BrentFoster]

All,

   I thought I would try and give you a forecast of things to come for the eSearch. Here are things I am currently working on or have already completed:

1. Multi field Links. What this means is that you can specify a link much the same way you do a description in a popup. So links will now look like this:



<links>
                <link alias="View Mon. Ref Sheet">
                    <![CDATA[http://mySite/gis/map/mrs_test.asp?mrspoint={Name}&lat={LAT}&long={LON}]]>
                    <icon><![CDATA[assets/images/w_link.png]]></icon>
                </link> 
            </links>

And for a much more simple link it would look like this:

<links>
                <link alias="Get Property Image">
                    <![CDATA[{PICTURE}]]>
                    <icon><![CDATA[]]></icon>
                </link>
            </links>



2. Ability to select and copy from the widgets results


3. Multi field expressions! I am diligently working on this to make it work and as configurable as possible. This is still one of my biggest challenges as each additional field need to have an additional text box or combo box added to the User Interface.


4. I have many more items on the enhancement list but will have to wait and see what makes the cut after the massive code changes that are involved in 1 and 3 are complete.

IMPORTANT be ready for it because this next version will require a lot of changes to your current SearchWidget.xml

Thank You Thank You Thank You!!  Multi Field search capability would be a life saver for me!

[glennhazelton]

robert,
it turns out that the useUTC tag was implemented at version 2.4 of the viewer.
i am a bit slow to move up and am still at 2.31 --thus the tag doesnt work.
i will move to 2.5 soon but it takes awhile to migrate all the various widgets.
it is nice new features keep being opened but it does mean that there is no stability for us simple users..
thanks again for all your help.

Glenn,

  Have you tried with the OTB search widget. Because they will not give you supoort for my widget but they will if it does the same in the OTB search widget.

[glennhazelton]

hi again Robert,
i have another odd behavior that perhaps you can help me understand.
i have an attribute table that has values stored in "double" fieldtypes.
in some cases the field is blank and other it is populated with a "0" or "1".
if you look at the attached screen shot you will see that in your 'gridview' i see the TC field is  "0" but  the initial search window the field is blank. i also just see blank values in the popup if i click the row in the grid.

if i use the regular popup tool (not your esearch) see the "0".

any ideas.?

[EmilyLaMunyon]

Thank You Thank You Thank You!!  Multi Field search capability would be a life saver for me!

I want to second this, thanks a million for adding this to the esearch widget!!!!

Emily

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Glen,

   I will have this addressed in the next release.