Latest Contributions by AnthonyGiles

Jamal, Flex does not require any access to the Internet to run, as long as you configure the main config file to look at services on your own arcgis server. Flex does not have the same issues of only using tiled base maps you can add a base map in as a dynamic layer. You will have to insure that your client browsers have the or react plugin installed though if they do not have Internet access. Regards Anthony ... View more

Vijayashree, I am not 100% sure of how the US single house address locator works as I do not use US data. I was suggesting that you put your city name into a new column then you could use the single address locator against that field. This would return all addresses in that city. I thought that is what you were after when you said you wanted a City State style locator. As you only have one state I thought searching against just the city name would be sufficient. Regards Anthony ... View more

Walter, You could set up a geoprocessing task that takes the lat-long location as an input, creates a point file from it then performs a near analysis against your street layer to find the nearest street. Have a look at the near analysis tool: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00080000001q000000 Regards Anthony ... View more

vijayashree, When you create your address locator in arc catalog you have a number of templates that you can use, see here: http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Commonly_used_address_locator_styles There is one that works for US Cities and States but looking at your data you will need to create an extra column with the City name in it, extracting this from the column FACILTY_M should be simple enough using an expression in the field calculator. Also is this just a sample of your data as you only have one state which is abbreviated to 'NC', so searching on city and state would be a bit of a waste of time, you could just use a single address locator against your city name. Regards, Anthony Amendment - Sorry but I do not have access to ArcMap at the moment so I have extracted the City names for you in Excel attached is the .xls file, you can link this to your original shapefile in ArcMap and use the calculate field to copy over the values in City in to a new field in your shapefile. ... View more

vijayashree, You will have to create an address locator through ArcCatalog using your shapefile as the source,then publish this a geocode service to your arcgis server. You then can consume this service in your web application. Flex has a widget that can be configured to work with our own geocode services, see the links below for more info: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//01540000035t000000 http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/help/index.html#/Locate_widget/01m300000037000000/ Regards Anthony ... View more

Karl, I created a BNG widget  a while ago the code may help you out: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=84e905c062404284976e8b469e1b8bfb Regards Anthony ... View more

Jamal, There are various options that you could do to make this tool work for you: A. Set the aoiselectionmethod to extent then when the user zooms to the full extent of the layer they will download the complete layer. B. change the model running in the background so it does not perform a clip. There is also another widget in the gallery that saves to shapefile but I may need updating to work with 3.1: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=d8dc9df78ec643a9a27c18a6f01b41c1 Regards Anthony ... View more

Jamal, You could create an add in that opens up your URL, have a look at this example that opens up google maps, just change the URL to your services directory: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/14711/streetview-bing-birds-eye-add-in Regards Anthony ... View more

Jamal, Have a look at the data extract widget that comes with the viewer: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/flex-viewer/concepts/index.html#/Data_Extract_widget/01m300000039000000/ Regards Anthony ... View more

Jamal, I do not use the application builder but my guess is that you must have at least one base map specified in the set up. Once you have unchecked the add arcgis online basemap try adding your own from the arcgis server tab, Regards Anthony ... View more

Joe, It all depends on your own business needs. If you can publish to your own ArcGIS Server then you have the option to build applications to consume your data using any of the following APIs: flex, silverlight or JavaScript. Which one to use can vary for different reasons, such as what type of client are you aiming your application towards, mobile devices will probably handle JavaScript applications better than silverlight or flex. I personally cannot use silverlight as we are on a closed system where the silverlight plugin is not installed. To use Flex the client will have to have the flash plugin installed. You may be also more comfortable programming in one language over another. Flex and silverlight have configurable viewers that you can download, where you will probably have to start from scratch with the JavaScript API. Flex seems to have more of an active forum and there are plenty of samples which do not required you to have to get too deep into programming. ArcGIS online is a good option if you do not have access to your own arcgis server. You can do a limited amount using the free options but you are limited to things like only being allowed to upload 1000 features etc. If you do have a budget you can buy subscriptions to AGOL that provides more options. Sorry but this is not really my area so I can't really tell you what these are, but I believe you can publish data from ArcMap to the online servers. I agree with you that there are many options available but first you need to decide what your end application needs to do and who your are targeting. Hope this helps Regards Anthony ... View more

Joe, You should be able to create applications similar to your example using ArcGIS online. After you have created your own web app you have the option to share the map as either a link or embedded into another web page. Another good thing about arcgis online is it will work with many different clients suh as mobile devices. I have a very simple example running here, this was created using esri supplied basemap and my own shape files: http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=17da1078c08648f0872f2abeba189de0 Regards Anthony ... View more

Joe, If you want to give te user the ability to load their own shape files in to the viewer client side there is a custom widget available designed by Robert: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=2e9096c5d5044d39a264df759611686f If you want to serve your data from arcgis online you have to share the data to everyone to see it in the flex app builder. Regards Anthony ... View more

Arowana, Robert,Sorry to jump in but I found that removing the s:Rect caused a number of other issues in areas that it is referenced, so I just placed an alpha tag with a zero which worked.RegardsAnthony ... View more

Jamal, In order for your changes to be reflected in your service you need to refresh/restart your service after you have saved your mxd. For these changes to also make there way to your flex application you also need to clear your arcgis rest cache. Changes in the service should not effect your application unless you have reordered some of your layers, or added new layers or removed layers in your mxd. If so any of your widgets that are configured against particular layer numbers ( I.e. your search widget) may need changing. Regards Anthony ... View more