Search Widget Error: The highlighting of the search result does not fit itself to the actual feature

[BenjaminHarloe]

Hopefully the example below is enough to show what I'm talking about. In that picture I am searching for the feature that is marked by the pink line. The search tool finds it properly however the highlighting of the result (The bright blue line) does not fit the line like it should, but rather only fits the line approximately. Does anyone know what the cause of this could be? There aren't any other hidden layers that it could be accidentally displaying in the search result as far as I know. 

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Benjamin,

   Can you post your configs/search/config_Search.json

[BenjaminHarloe]

Hi Robert, below is the code. The only thing is changed is I removed the URL's for the services. 

{
"allPlaceholder": "pipeline search",
"showInfoWindowOnSelect": true,
"sources": [
{
"layerId": "ReclaimedWater_6454_14",
"url": "",
"name": "Reclaim Pipe",
"placeholder": "pipeline search",
"searchFields": [
"GISOBJID",
"UNITID"
],
"displayField": "GISOBJID",
"exactMatch": false,
"searchInCurrentMapExtent": false,
"zoomScale": 50000,
"maxSuggestions": 6,
"maxResults": 6,
"type": "query"
},
{
"layerId": "Wastewater_1763_17",
"url": "",
"name": "Sewer Force Main",
"placeholder": "",
"searchFields": [
"GISOBJID",
"UNITID"
],
"displayField": "GISOBJID",
"exactMatch": false,
"searchInCurrentMapExtent": false,
"zoomScale": 50000,
"maxSuggestions": 6,
"maxResults": 6,
"type": "query"
},
{
"layerId": "Wastewater_1763_16",
"url": "",
"name": "Sewer Gravity Main",
"placeholder": "",
"searchFields": [
"UNITID",
"GISOBJID"
],
"displayField": "GISOBJID",
"exactMatch": false,
"searchInCurrentMapExtent": false,
"zoomScale": 50000,
"maxSuggestions": 6,
"maxResults": 6,
"type": "query"
},
{
"layerId": "Water_7426_18",
"url": "",
"name": "WATER_PIPE",
"placeholder": "",
"searchFields": [
"OBJECTID",
"UNITID"
],
"displayField": "GISOBJID",
"exactMatch": false,
"searchInCurrentMapExtent": false,
"zoomScale": 50000,
"maxSuggestions": 6,
"maxResults": 6,
"type": "query"
}
]
}

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Benjamin,

   In the Search Widget.js file find the _convertConfig and make this change:

Line 28 add a comma and new line then add line 29

      _convertConfig: function(config) {
        var sourceDefs = array.map(config.sources, lang.hitch(this, function(source) {
          var def = new Deferred();
          if (source && source.url && source.type === 'locator') {
            var _source = {
              locator: new Locator(source.url || ""),
              outFields: ["*"],
              singleLineFieldName: source.singleLineFieldName || "",
              name: jimuUtils.stripHTML(source.name || ""),
              placeholder: jimuUtils.stripHTML(source.placeholder || ""),
              countryCode: source.countryCode || "",
              maxSuggestions: source.maxSuggestions,
              maxResults: source.maxResults || 6,
              zoomScale: source.zoomScale || 50000,
              useMapExtent: !!source.searchInCurrentMapExtent
            };

            if (source.enableLocalSearch) {
              _source.localSearchOptions = {
                minScale: source.localSearchMinScale,
                distance: source.localSearchDistance
              };
            }

            def.resolve(_source);
          } else if (source && source.url && source.type === 'query') {
            var searchLayer = new FeatureLayer(source.url || null, {
              outFields: ["*"],
              maxAllowableOffset: 0
            });‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

[BenjaminHarloe]

Hi Robert, I made the change and unfortunately the error is still occurring.

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Benjamin,

  Did you make the change in the stemApp widgets folder or the actual apps search widget folder?

[BenjaminHarloe]

I made the change in the actual app's search widget folder

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Ok, that is the only thing i could think of that would cause the generalization of the geometry. I will have to see if i can replicate this and dig deeper.

[BenjaminHarloe]

Thanks for the effort. I made an entirely new app and recreated the search widget and the error is still there so I don't think it's something unique to my specific app. But it's pretty frustrating, there's no way this can be a intended feature of the search tool right?

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Benjamin,

   So after some in-depth research I have found that the JS API Search Dijit will set the maxAllowableOffset to 1 for the featurelayer that is searched and there does not seem to be any property that can be adjusted to prevent this. Here is a thread where one individual overcame this by hosting the API locally so that they could adjust this property to 0:

https://community.esri.com/thread/178135