Latest Contributions by MichaelJenkins

Robert, Right, the widget folder doesn't change name, just the configuration json file for it.  To clarify my question, the default config json file is in the widget folder, but as soon as you start changing the widget configuration, it writes a different json config file into the "configs" folder with a sub folder that has the widget name.  That config file name is based on the widget's label. Using the "Coordinate" widget as an example, when you add the widget to your WAB application, there is no corresponding "coordinate" folder under the "configs" folder. (in fact there won't even be a configs folder yet). The widget is looking at the config.json file in the widget's own folder. Now click the edit icon on the widget and change the number of decimal places or add another coordinate system.  Save the app and a "configs" folder gets created with a "Coordinate" folder and a file called "config_Coordinate.json". Next, click the edit icon again but this time change the widget's name to something different, like "DevSummitDemo" and the config_Coordinates.json file changes its name to "config_DevSummitDemo". This config file doesn't even contain the label for the widget.  That is in the "config.json" in the root folder.  When you change the name of the widget it changes the "label" and "config" attributes in that root config.json file, with the "config" attribute containing the path to the file I'm describing above. The same thing happens with other widgets, including eSearch so I guess it is built into the widget template. (Sorry to use the word "config" so many times in one post.) ... View more

Cool idea, I  like it! ... View more

Excellent resource, thank you! ... View more

John, Nice addition!  This sounds like the first step in a customization we'd like to do.  We are using the WAB to build a web app to replace an existing one that has a long history of taking a parcel number through a very simple URL query string. For example http://www.abc.org/MapApp?parcelnum=0123456789 We've configured the eSearch widget with a parcel query, and it can execute queries based on URL strings if it is open, but we would like to maintain our easy to communicate query string of "parcelnum=0123456789" If do it the eSearch way they if we add another query, the expression number variable could change, an then dozens or more links from other organizations would break. So what I'd like to do is write some code for the WAB app that can take our simple query string that will never change and translate it behind the scenes to the user into a call to the eSearch query. This code you posted will come in very handy to help me get started. ... View more

I have two questions for you. 1) Is it possible to get dropdown lists sorted alphabetically? 2) Is it possible to format the results list and popup window? For example, I have configured a search on a city layer and specified "CITYNAME (string) is Unique" as the expression.  When I run the eSearch tool, the list of city names appears to be in a random order, even though when I look at the HTTP request that is made to populate the list it is clearly being returned sorted alphabetically.  outFields=CITYNAME&orderByFields=CITYNAME (EDIT: Random order is not the right way to describe it.  It is more like it is almost in alphabetical order but with occasion random mistakes, like a city that begins with "A" is inserted in between "L" and "M" city names.   And upon reloading the site and creating the list again, it may be a different city name that is out of order.   It is not consistently the same one in the same wrong position in the list.) When I run the search for the city of "Kent", the results panel shows: Kent : undefined The popup window for the result is then different from the popup widow for that actual map layer.  Ideally we could somehow specify for the results tool to use the popup configuration from the webmap.  I know the search tool is not using the webmap at all, but it would be nice to have a consistent display of popup windows for the actual map layer and the search results on that map layer. Even if I could just manually configure the result popup window, that would suffice. Thanks! Michael ... View more

After you open the attribute table for the search results, select all the records in the attribute table and then the export to CSV option should become available. It would be nice to have a "select all" option to make that easier to do. ... View more

I, too, greatly appreciate the work you've done here and that you are sharing this with us.  I have downloaded the newest version of the eSearch and have tried it out.  One thing that seems to be different from the previous version is that when Add Results as operational layer is chosen, the layer that is added to the operational layers list now seems to just be the layer name, but before it was "Search result: <layer name>".   I think it is more clear to the user if the "search results" designation is retained. Thanks! ... View more

I got it here: https://betacommunity.esri.com/home.html https://betacommunity.esri.com/project/version/default.html?cap=56748504C94543EAA126319325FD2EC4&arttypeid={3338AB49-EA7A-4C47-8C55-3E4B67F53AB4} I may be wrong, but I think it is still considered Beta 3, so if they haven't released it from Beta yet, that might be the only place to get it. ... View more

I assume it is just something about our organization.   We've had problems using ArcGIS Online with IE in the past when accessed from our work network but not when accessed from other  (public) networks.  Thanks! ... View more

This is really great, Robert, thanks! I appreciate the live demo site that you've added, but it is not working for me in IE10.   It works fine in Chrome.   I'm having the same issue with my own locally hosted copies of WAB applications, but I can use WAB created apps in IE10 when they are hosted on ArcGIS.com <edited>  I wrote a comment that you should include the Query tools 'add as operational layer' option because when I looked at your sample site it did not show that option, but I have downloaded the widget and now realize that option is there, but it is configured when you create the query, not when you execute it.   I think that's great!  One less thing for the user to have to think about.  </edited> Your addition of multi-part graphics to the search is awesome! ... View more

From  I've been able to understand about NodeJS, the WAB is probably using it because of all of the file writing it has to do.   It must me easier or somehow more efficient for them to use nodeJS rather than figuring out and documenting all the web server settings they would need on apache or IIS. As for hosting the resulting App on IIs, I have tried this and it works in Chrome and FF but not in IE10 on my machine.  For some reason the URL paths to jsapi files is messed up.   If When I figure this out, I will post a message here in case anyone else has the same problem.  I think it is strange that it works in Chrome but not IE. ... View more