Latest Contributions by StephenLead

See the Navigation Toolbar to do this out-of-the-box. ... View more

Hi Dorothea, If the user now wants to click and zoom to another datagrid record the Show Find Task is no longer active. How can I track the function mode so it will work all the time? Right now the user has to clear the grid and start over with the Find Task. I'm not sure why the click listener is no longer active at this point. If you put a breakpoint inside the doIdentify function, is it definitely running when you click on the map? Steve ... View more

Hi James, Assuming that your map has a tiled/cached layer, then it's only possible to zoom to an integer zoom level. If you do need an "infinite zoom" range, you'll need to use Dynamic or Feature layers only. Steve ... View more

The video shows using a local instance of IIS to run the sample. Notice that the html file is placed in the wwwroot directory (default location to serve files using IIS) and when it's loaded in the browser, the sample is accessed using http://, not file://. OK maybe the video wasn't a good example as I got frustrated by the slow clicking and stopped watching it before the end (or perhaps this makes it a good example after all, since most developers have short attention spans...) I won't labour the point, but my feedback is that it's possible many users will be confused by the new requirements, and it would help if there was some mention of this, somewhere. Cheers, Steve ... View more

Hi all, I guess the main problem is that this new requirement (to use a web server) isn't documented anywhere. Eg, the Samples homepage still links to a video showing how to download a sample and run it from your local disk. None of the individual samples have been updated to list the requirement for a web server. As of last week, we were all used to working a certain way, and now we need to change. That's not a problem, but there needs to be a clearer set of instructions on what's required. This affects both experienced developers (who are used to working the old way and new developers (who need to know how to get started). This could be remedied with a new "how to use these samples" video tutorial (and complementary text version) on the Samples homepage, showing how to set up a local web server. This should also be linked from each sample page. At the moment, developers would need to read this thread in order to figure out (a) what's wrong and (b) how to fix it. Cheers, Steve ... View more

***Are FeatureLayers created from featureCollection ( esri.layers.FeatureLayer(featureCollectionObject, options?) ) supposed to honor the definition expression or not?*** Possibly not. The help file under Feature Layer - feature collection objects says: Does not support queries that need to be performed on the server, e.g. queries with a where clause or non-extent based spatial queries. ... View more

I want to return the milepost location (or River Mile) at the map location that the user clicks on. Can I extract this information using the Identify task or do I need to use the esri.tasks.RouteTask option? Hi Steve, I'd assume that you need to use RouteTask. IdentifyTask is more like the Identify tool in ArcMap, in that it returns the value of a feature found at that XY location, rather than using a linear reference. Steve ... View more

Please use a local web server. It's not realistic to run web apps from your local file system. There are plenty of free options and most OSes come with a web server built-in. Hi Derek, Thanks for the clarification. However, I agree with Jeff that this represents a new hurdle for developers (especially those just starting out with the JS API). While it's not realistic to run web apps from a local file system, it IS common to fire up a quick sample to check how one specific thing works, which is surely the point of the samples? This is how we test out new functionality before compiling it into a robust web app for deployment (not just in the ArcGIS Server JS API but in other web mapping APIs, or indeed other JavaScript/HTML libraries). I haven't looked into v3.0 yet so I don't fully understand the change, and why it was necessary. As a developer, all I can see is that the copy/paste/test approach used to work, and now doesn't. Perhaps there could be a blog post/tutorial explaining the changes, and giving some simple instructions for the new requirements of a web server - this could be linked on each sample page. Cheers, Steve ... View more

Thanks for the tip - looks like a reasonable workaround. Is it valid to depend on properties with an underscore (as with map._slider)? I always thought they were not fully supported and shouldn't be used? Cheers, Steve ... View more

The upgrade process is listed at http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00rq0000004m000000 ... View more

Matt, Can you manually/physically move the overlapping features? Eg using a geoprocessing script, or buffer, etc? Steve ... View more

Hi Raphael, I'd advise against doing what you're trying. The fact that the field name is long shouldn't matter to you (as a developer) since the end-user won't ever need to see the long field-name. They'll simply see the value of the long field in the infoWinow. A field-name is unique (ArcMap will throw an error if not) whereas aliases can be duplicated. The potential risk is that if you're trying to find a field by its alias you're not guaranteed to obtain the correct field. To rephrase this - why do you need to use the alias rather than the field-name in the infoWindow configuration? It seems like a lot of work for no real return. Cheers, Steve ... View more