Latest Contributions by derekswingley1

‎02-01-2013

Its just a personal preference I guess. As long as it is functional. I agree, critiquing a design is subjective. Hopefully the site is still functional. With the exception of search (and I'm not trying to minimize the importance of search), the site should be more functional. It's much easier to link to specific resources. A little more background on search... internally, we weren't happy with how search was working. The underlying search index was out of date and the infrastructure for maintaining the index was going to go away. We decided to re-launch the site without search since we didn't think anyone was actually using it because the results were so poor. Obviously we were wrong. to be short, it looks like it was designed by marketing, not a developer. Fine for the examples, not fine for an API We didn't quite go full Zeldman for the site but I'd be lying if I said we weren't at least a little influenced by design elements from the A List Apart crowd.

‎02-01-2013

As I said in the previous forum thread discussing the new design, we are not going to go back to the old design. We've been listening and have been making changes to the site to improve usability. We moved away from a fixed grid for the main content areas (api ref, concepts, samples and tutorials) and have made the table of contents always visible. One big thing the design did for us was to ditch the <frames> so that the URL in your browser accurately reflects the content that's currently displayed. We are still missing search, but we are working on restoring that. What specific things don't you like about the site? The site (content as well as design) is constantly evolving and if there's something specific you'd like changed or tweaked we can discuss that. What does "forced 'mobilification'" mean? The site operates the same on mobile/tablets/desktop. In other words, it is not a responsive design.

‎01-29-2013

Looks like we probably introduced a bug with 3.3. The issue is that adding a MapImageLayer to a map before the map's onLoad event has fired doesn't work. This is because the MapImageLayer checks that images have a spatial reference that matches the map's (or is something that can be converted client side like wgs84 to web mercator or vice versa). The workaround is to wait for the map to load before adding the MapImageLayer: http://jsfiddle.net/FCx4Q/ I'll look into this further and, if it's a bug, I'll log it.

‎01-29-2013

Should a feature layer automatically project on-the-fly? Is there a way to force it to reproject? Yes, check out the feature layer in any projection sample. The key is to set esri.Map's spatial reference by passing an extent with the spatial reference of your choice as an option to esri.Map. You can also use that sample to generate extents in any spatial reference.

‎01-29-2013

Can you provide an example of the log/warning messages you're seeing? Browser dev tools provide the ability to filter the messages you see. The default is to see all messages/logs/warnings/errors. You could click the button to see only "Logs" (in Chrome Dev tools) and you'll only see console.log messages.

‎01-29-2013

In that sample, map is a global variable. Is map a global variable in the app your building?

‎01-25-2013

You're using the legacy module loader (dojo.require), but you're giving it AMD-style paths. Try: dojo.require("dojox.grid.DataGrid"); dojo.require("dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore"); Also, since you're creating your grid in markup, you need to set dojoConfig.parseOnLoad to true. Put this before your script tag that references the JS API: <script>var dojoConfig = { parseOnLoad:true }</script> Running dijit.byId('grid') in the console in sample you linked returns a reference to the grid.

‎01-11-2013

The geocoder with suffix sample shows (among other things) custom placeholder text: http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/jssamples/#sample/locator_suffix The mistake in your code is that your using "esriGeocoder" instead of "arcgisGeocoder".

‎01-10-2013

Unfortunately, this isn't exposed via the services directory??? you have to look at it from ArcGIS Desktop. This Server help topic should have the info you need: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//0154000004vn000000

‎01-10-2013

The Samples no longer take you first to the source code, but rather straight to the live application. While I can still get to the Source, of course, this is a bit annoying. It even still says on the bottom of the Sample Page: "These samples demonstrate how to use various features in the ArcGIS API for JavaScript. Each sample page contains a description of what happens in the sample, the source code and links to view the sample live or download as a .zip file. Watch a video that shows how you can copy the code from the samples to run them on your machine." Despite this currently not being true. I've changed this�?? thumbnails now take you to the description page instead of the live sample.

‎01-10-2013

Please post a more complete code sample to reproduce what you're seeing. When creating your map, wkid is not a supported constructor option parameter so please remove that. You can also remove wrapAround180: true as well because that is the default.

‎12-18-2012

The bing layer works like other tiled layers in the API so if you don't want your bing layer to be visible initially, pass visible: false to the constructor. The easiest way to be able to get a reference to a bing layer (or any layer for that matter) is to specify an id when creating the layer then pass that id to map.getLayer. Here's an example: http://jsfiddle.net/Srg9n/

‎12-10-2012

Since you're using an arcgis.com basemap, specify your initial extent in web mercator, not Nevada State Plane (wkid 3421).

‎12-10-2012

What is the error you're seeing (check your browser's dev console)? Have you set up a proxy?

‎12-10-2012

Are you sure you want to try to show hundreds of different colors on a map? Once you start showing more than six or seven colors it's hard to differentiate between them. I would re-consider showing each feature as a unique color. If you're using ArcGIS Server 10.1 you can use the generate renderer endpoint to build a renderer from your data. We have a sample that shows how to request a class breaks renderer using this functionality. You could do the same thing, but use a UniqueValueDefinition instead of a ClassBreaksDefinition. Here's a modified version of our sample that uses a UniqueValueDefinition to give each county a unique symbol based on the NAME attribute from the layer: http://jsfiddle.net/nKzUp/

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Re: Please sign this petition to restore the previous ESRI website design!

Re: Please sign this petition to restore the previous ESRI website design!

Re: Can't get MapImage to display

Re: Does a feature layer support projection on-the-fly?

Re: Turn off the console logs from ArcGIS JavaScript API

Re: Toolbar navigation "map.disableDoubleClickZoom is not a function"

Re: dijit.byId("grid") - TypeError: grid is undefined or grid.setStore is not a funct

Re: Set Placeholder for simpleGeocoder

Re: TableDataSource- where to find WorkspaceID??

Re: ESRI Javascript API 3.3

Re: esriGeocoder issues (js api 3.3 dojo 1.8)

Re: Bing map (veTileLayer) as basemap

Re: Map with initial extent and basemap not showing dynamic layer until after a map e

Re: PrintTask with GraphicsLayer

Re: How To Render Layer By Unique Value Without Hard Coding the Values

Re: URL Parameters

Re: URL Parameters

Re: cant see text in drawing toolbar tooltip!

Re: Customise cursor tooltip

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