Flex View Import Excel File with Coordinates

PiotrWojciechowski · ‎10-22-2010

I downloaded the Flex Viewer onto my server, installed, and it runs great. Now, is it possible to link it to an excel file that has Long/Lat Coordinates? I want to display, say 10 points on the Flex map from this Excel file. I want to be able to hover over the displayed points so that it shows the other information in the row of the excel file.

This seems simple enough, and I already did it in ArcGIS 9.3 but would now like to deploy it company wide.

Does anyone have any tips or suggestions? Thank You all in advance for your help!

Mike G
Bronx, NY

PiotrWojciechowski · ‎11-04-2010

So, once you have an mxd, and you publish it as a map service, then you go into the flexviewer folder and open config.xml and add your service in the operationallayers section.
 <operationallayers>
   <layer label="Parcels" type="dynamic" visible="true"
                url="http://agsmaps.ci.santa-rosa.ca.us//ArcGIS/rest/services/Parcels/MapServer"/>
You will find the url for your service by looking in http://servername//ArcGIS/rest/services and then clicking on the particular service you want to add and copying the url from your browser. This will work for internal users. For the public, you will want to create a virtual directory or something similar that lets them thru your firewall. Feel free to give me a call if you want: 707-543-3112

Thanks Mike, we did this and it worked out great!