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Preceding thread items can be found here:
http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=212&f=2479&t=304077&mc=7
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Subject Re: Benchmark Report General Issues
Author Nate Hadro
Date May 28, 2010
Message Those fixes worked great. Thankyou.
You mentioned quite a few times the May Release and it now being May, are those releases available? For instance the summerization data then you mentioned. Do we have to download an updated DLL for ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.BAO.Tasks.BenchmarkReportParameters?
Thanks,
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Subject Re: Benchmark Report General Issues
Author Tony Howser
Date May 28, 2010
Message Hi Nate.
Business Analyst Online's May release/update did deploy to our production systems this May with the previously-discussed bug fixes and we appreciate your patience.
The Business Analyst Online API REST and SOAP services documentation was just updated to reflect the fixes and newer functionality.
I expect the newer assemblies for the Business Analyst Online API for Silverlight to deployed within the next week or two. We are still working on some post-release QA and documentation however; in the mean time, I encourage you to take a look at the REST documentation available here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/businessanalyst/9.3/online%20apis/services/rest/reference/index.htm . The Business Analyst Online APIs for Silverlight and Flex, generally speaking, are user-friendly "wrapper classes" around the services described in these docs.
Now, let's revisit your previous questions with some follow up comments:
[INDENT]1-Is there a way to put headers for different sections of the report?[/INDENT]
AND
[INDENT]2-Is there a way to put spaces in the report [as illustrated in attached]?[/INDENT]
The REST documentation (http://help.arcgis.com/en/businessanalyst/9.3/online%20apis/services/rest/reference/index.htm?analys... ) copiously describes the newest custom header options for each service capable of producing report output (Benchmark Report, Drive Time, Simple Rings, Summary Reports). Look in the documentation for each service to get examples and syntax for each header type. The header types "map" to the Silverlight API as well.
In addition to the "static" report headers that we previously offered, we now have a "dynamic" report header option with the Summary Reports service which can create headers based on the attributes associated with each analysis area passed as study/trade area input. This can be very useful when a report is created for more than one area in a single Web service request. Please see the REST Summary Report service docs for more information (http://help.arcgis.com/en/businessanalyst/9.3/online%20apis/services/rest/reference/index.htm?Summar... )
Finally, if you would just prefer to consume the calculated underlying data produced for each report (and you are comfortable with parsing XML), PLEASE leverage the Simplified XML (S.XML) report output format. Most Business Analyst reports created with the Benchmark Report, Drive Time, Simple Rings, and Summary Reports services can be requested in S.XML format for quick and easy integration in your client applications, workflows, or systems.
Again, everything I describe here, is "mapped" to and will be available on the API for Silverlight. Thank you for your patience.
[INDENT]3-Adding Education for less the 9th grade throw an error:[/INDENT]
//benchmarkReportParams.Summarizations.Add("EDLT9_CY");
Fixed and available on production. Thank you for your previous feedback.
[INDENT]4-Is there a way to get averages and percentages that are in other reports. [/INDENT]
See my previous reply to this for calculating the indexes and other values. While waiting for the updated Silverlight assemblies, you can pull the data with the Get Summarizations REST service here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/businessanalyst/9.3/online%20apis/services/rest/reference/index.htm?GetSum... . Again, thank you for your patience.
6-When there is more than a page of information, it doesn't go onto the next page. It just goes off the bottom of the page. Also the first page is blank, the second page has all the content going off the bottom of the page and the last page is empty.
Fixed and available on production. Thank you for your previous feedback.
Nate, thanks again for your extreme patience and for your follow up. We are working dilligently to get those updated assemblies out there within the next week or so. In the mean time, I hope the updated REST and SOAP services and associated documentation can assist you.
We believe that there is significant value in what we offer through the Business Analyst Online API and we are happy that you are leveraging it.
-Tony
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Subject Re: Benchmark Report General Issues
Author Nate Hadro
Date May 28, 2010
Message Thankyou for your quick followup. Since we have already built most of what we have on top of the Silverlight API already I think we will probably continue with that route and look forward to the release of the new assemblies. We don't have a lot of time to spend on this so it is probably worth waiting for the new assembiles instead of trying to get the REST services to work.
Is there a specific URL I can goto to find these new assemblies when they are released? This would save me the time of navigating the site trying to find them.
Again thanks for your reply and we look forward to the new assembiles.
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Subject Re: Benchmark Report General Issues
Author Tony Howser
Date May 28, 2010
Message Hey Nate,
We will links to the new assemblies from the Code Gallery (http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/bapi) and from the Silverlight Documentation (http://resources.arcgis.com/content/business-analyst-online-silverlight-api).
The Business Analyst Online Interactive Sample Viewer and its "complete VS code examples" (http://baserver.esri.com/BAOAPI_SL/). and some other demos in the Code Gallery will also reference the newer assemblies and contain updated source code.
Thanks for your patience and flexibility.
Tony
http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=212&f=2479&t=304077&mc=7
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Subject Re: Benchmark Report General Issues
Author Nate Hadro
Date May 28, 2010
Message Those fixes worked great. Thankyou.
You mentioned quite a few times the May Release and it now being May, are those releases available? For instance the summerization data then you mentioned. Do we have to download an updated DLL for ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.BAO.Tasks.BenchmarkReportParameters?
Thanks,
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject Re: Benchmark Report General Issues
Author Tony Howser
Date May 28, 2010
Message Hi Nate.
Business Analyst Online's May release/update did deploy to our production systems this May with the previously-discussed bug fixes and we appreciate your patience.
The Business Analyst Online API REST and SOAP services documentation was just updated to reflect the fixes and newer functionality.
I expect the newer assemblies for the Business Analyst Online API for Silverlight to deployed within the next week or two. We are still working on some post-release QA and documentation however; in the mean time, I encourage you to take a look at the REST documentation available here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/businessanalyst/9.3/online%20apis/services/rest/reference/index.htm . The Business Analyst Online APIs for Silverlight and Flex, generally speaking, are user-friendly "wrapper classes" around the services described in these docs.
Now, let's revisit your previous questions with some follow up comments:
[INDENT]1-Is there a way to put headers for different sections of the report?[/INDENT]
AND
[INDENT]2-Is there a way to put spaces in the report [as illustrated in attached]?[/INDENT]
The REST documentation (http://help.arcgis.com/en/businessanalyst/9.3/online%20apis/services/rest/reference/index.htm?analys... ) copiously describes the newest custom header options for each service capable of producing report output (Benchmark Report, Drive Time, Simple Rings, Summary Reports). Look in the documentation for each service to get examples and syntax for each header type. The header types "map" to the Silverlight API as well.
In addition to the "static" report headers that we previously offered, we now have a "dynamic" report header option with the Summary Reports service which can create headers based on the attributes associated with each analysis area passed as study/trade area input. This can be very useful when a report is created for more than one area in a single Web service request. Please see the REST Summary Report service docs for more information (http://help.arcgis.com/en/businessanalyst/9.3/online%20apis/services/rest/reference/index.htm?Summar... )
Finally, if you would just prefer to consume the calculated underlying data produced for each report (and you are comfortable with parsing XML), PLEASE leverage the Simplified XML (S.XML) report output format. Most Business Analyst reports created with the Benchmark Report, Drive Time, Simple Rings, and Summary Reports services can be requested in S.XML format for quick and easy integration in your client applications, workflows, or systems.
Again, everything I describe here, is "mapped" to and will be available on the API for Silverlight. Thank you for your patience.
[INDENT]3-Adding Education for less the 9th grade throw an error:[/INDENT]
//benchmarkReportParams.Summarizations.Add("EDLT9_CY");
Fixed and available on production. Thank you for your previous feedback.
[INDENT]4-Is there a way to get averages and percentages that are in other reports. [/INDENT]
See my previous reply to this for calculating the indexes and other values. While waiting for the updated Silverlight assemblies, you can pull the data with the Get Summarizations REST service here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/businessanalyst/9.3/online%20apis/services/rest/reference/index.htm?GetSum... . Again, thank you for your patience.
6-When there is more than a page of information, it doesn't go onto the next page. It just goes off the bottom of the page. Also the first page is blank, the second page has all the content going off the bottom of the page and the last page is empty.
Fixed and available on production. Thank you for your previous feedback.
Nate, thanks again for your extreme patience and for your follow up. We are working dilligently to get those updated assemblies out there within the next week or so. In the mean time, I hope the updated REST and SOAP services and associated documentation can assist you.
We believe that there is significant value in what we offer through the Business Analyst Online API and we are happy that you are leveraging it.
-Tony
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Subject Re: Benchmark Report General Issues
Author Nate Hadro
Date May 28, 2010
Message Thankyou for your quick followup. Since we have already built most of what we have on top of the Silverlight API already I think we will probably continue with that route and look forward to the release of the new assemblies. We don't have a lot of time to spend on this so it is probably worth waiting for the new assembiles instead of trying to get the REST services to work.
Is there a specific URL I can goto to find these new assemblies when they are released? This would save me the time of navigating the site trying to find them.
Again thanks for your reply and we look forward to the new assembiles.
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Subject Re: Benchmark Report General Issues
Author Tony Howser
Date May 28, 2010
Message Hey Nate,
We will links to the new assemblies from the Code Gallery (http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/bapi) and from the Silverlight Documentation (http://resources.arcgis.com/content/business-analyst-online-silverlight-api).
The Business Analyst Online Interactive Sample Viewer and its "complete VS code examples" (http://baserver.esri.com/BAOAPI_SL/). and some other demos in the Code Gallery will also reference the newer assemblies and contain updated source code.
Thanks for your patience and flexibility.
Tony
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