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]

Lixin,

   Got it, that will make it into the next version.

[LixinHuang]

Robert,

Thanks for your quick reply. I am looking forward to your next release.

[glennhazelton]

hi Robert,
some time ago i asked you for help in formating a date field in the esearch widget. below is what you provided. it works but i am getting odd results.
what is occuring is that the dates shown in the datagrid are 24 hrs older that the dates shown in arccatalog or sql+.
so i see 5/9/2012 8pm in the esearch datagrid and 5/10/2012 8pm in sql+.
i have tryed changing the 'useutc' tag to 'false' and removing it altogether but the displayed results are still the same.
do you have ideas about what could be happening? i have attached a screen shot as well.

here is the line from the esearch config.
<field name="DATE_COLLECTED" dateformat="MM/DD/YYYY  L A" useutc="true" gridfield="true"/

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Glen,

   What version and service pack of ArcGIS Server are you running?

[JaneCopeland]

Robert,

When I run this widget from the Esri site the pop-up windows persist after I change navigation tools through the navigation toolbar. When I run it from my own site, without modification, I loose the pop-ups. Am I missing a setting someplace that would allow the pop-ups to persist?

Thanks.

Jane

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Jane,

   I can not duplicate the behavior you are seeing even on a fresh clean install of the eSearch. When I have a popup visible and then switch navigation tools the popup remains.

[glennhazelton]

Glen,

   What version and service pack of ArcGIS Server are you running?

Robert,
i am running Arcserver 10 with sp4 installed.

it is clear now that what is happening is that Flex is subtracting 5 hrs from the time stored in the DB.
the time in the DB is EST or EDT not  GMT.
i have tryed a few tags that i found in the flex help (z=EST) or (zzz=GMT-00500)
but nothing seem to work make a difference.
i am seeing the same results with the Pop-up box as well.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/beta/reference/actionscript/3/flash/globalization/DateTime...

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Glenn,

Here is the code in my widget and all esri widgets as well that converts the date returned from REST (which is converted to utc before returned):

            private function msToDate(ms:Number, dateFormat:String, useUTC:Boolean):String
            {
                var date:Date = new Date(ms);
                if (date.milliseconds == 999) // workaround for REST bug
                    date.milliseconds++;
                if (useUTC)
                    date.minutes += date.timezoneOffset;
                
                if (dateFormat){
                    dateFormatter.formatString = dateFormat;
                    var result:String = dateFormatter.format(date);
                    if (result)
                        return result;
                    else
                        return dateFormatter.error;
                }else{
                    return date.toLocaleString();
                }
            }

[glennhazelton]

So Robert, i could use a bit more explaination--
does this code mean that if i have the tag useUTC='true' then i should be getting the time corrected to my timezone.?
how does it know what my timezone is? is it looking at the time on the webserver?
and
if i dont use the tag then i would get UTC time?
here is my config line.
it doesnt seem to matter if i have the useUTC in it or not. i see the same results regardless.
<field name="THE_DATE" dateformat="MM/DD/YYYY  L A" useUTC="true" gridfield="true"/> 

Glenn,

Here is the code in my widget and all esri widgets as well that converts the date returned from REST (which is converted to utc before returned):

            private function msToDate(ms:Number, dateFormat:String, useUTC:Boolean):String
            {
                var date:Date = new Date(ms);
                if (date.milliseconds == 999) // workaround for REST bug
                    date.milliseconds++;
                if (useUTC)
                    date.minutes += date.timezoneOffset;
                
                if (dateFormat){
                    dateFormatter.formatString = dateFormat;
                    var result:String = dateFormatter.format(date);
                    if (result)
                        return result;
                    else
                        return dateFormatter.error;
                }else{
                    return date.toLocaleString();
                }
            }

[JaneCopeland]

Robert,

Is there some setting in some other part of the viewer that keeps the mouse active on the map even after the navigation tool is used?

Jane