Improving pop-up widget speed in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 3.0

[VirginiaSeamster]

Hello!

I'm developing a web map using the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 3.0 Application Builder. My question is: do you have any recommendations for improving the speed with which the pop-up window displays after a feature is selected from a tiled service?

I have several raster datasets that I want to display in the web map- and there are attributes that I'd like to display from these rasters using the pop-up widget. In order to get the attributes to show up in the pop-up configuration- I converted the rasters to polygons, dissolved on the attribute I wanted to display, and then published the mxd to a feature service within ArcCatalog (I have ArcGIS Server 10.0). I created tiles for the feature service and then brought the tiled service into the web map using the Flex Application Builder.

For several of these tiled layers- when I click on a polygon in the web map-it takes a long time for the pop-up window to load -in some cases more than a minute- and sometimes the pop-up window doesn't ever open, or the pop-up that opens is actually for a different layer that I'd looked at previously.

Is there something I can do to the polygons- say use "simplify polygons"- that would help? Or a setting that I should change for the feature service/tiled service- say the time out limit? Or should I look into using the image extension to publish the rasters- can you do pop-ups for rasters published using the extension?

Any thoughts are very much appreciated and I'm happy to provide further detail if that would be helpful.

Thank you!

Virginia

[VirginiaSeamster]

Thank you Anthony.

I tried using Robert's "Identify" widget for Flex 3.0 and it successfully pulls the information on habitat type out of the raster attribute table-and the time it takes for the pop-up window to open is reasonable- so that is great.

My only problem now is that the symbology for the raster doesn't show up in the Table of Contents widget that I'm using in place of the legend widget. I'll have to look in to whether that widget is capable of displaying the symbolog of a raster layer in a map service.

Thanks again Anthony- I really appreciate the feedback.

Virginia

[AnthonyGiles]

Viriginia,

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Anthony