Latest Contributions by MichaelJenkins

‎11-25-2014

Pretty basic question, but I've been able to get the WAB Developer Edition to run locally on my machine, but I find the NODE.js web server it uses to be pretty slow and cumbersome. Can we just use IIS as the server instead? And a related question, once we create an app with the WAB and save it, we have a JavaScript web application in the "app" folder. Can I then move that web app out of the WAB file structure and place it in IIS for users to access?

‎11-21-2014

OK, that was it. I was calling that method directly as the callback function of query.execute, but I understand now why that would make this.map our of context to the called function. Using lang.hitch instead fixed it. I found a pretty good page that describes JavaScript variable scope and the times to use lang.hitch here: Making Functions with hitch and partial - The Dojo Toolkit

‎11-21-2014

Nope, _displayCity is not called until the user has selected from the dropdown list, which is not only well after startup, it is called right after _zoomToCity which access the map properly. In my console screenshot above you can see the order. Whenever it shows [object object] then it is the map object. when it hits _displayCity it changes to a DIV called map.

‎11-21-2014

I know, it is strange. I can get this.map to be the esri map object in all of my methods except the one that actually will use it. I must have a syntax error or something. I will keep digging until I find it.

‎11-20-2014

I have a related follow-up question. Do I need to do anything special or include something that I haven't in order to access the map object? Similar to my OP, when I reference this.map I am getting the HTML element with id="map", not the esri map object.

‎11-20-2014

I found that in in the WAB documentation, so kudos to Esri for putting that in there and thanks again Robert for helping me out. Define the template—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Beta) | ArcGIS

‎11-20-2014

Great! It helped me gain some basic understanding of the process and it is essentially a "Hello World" example.

‎11-20-2014

That was it, thanks a lot! For anyone else reading this, the CustomTemplateWidget provided with the WAB doesn't include that line, and it seems to me it probably should. Robert, would you say that _WidgetsInTemplateMixin will always be needed in that return statement when building custom widgets?

‎11-19-2014

I am trying to make my first custom widget for the WAB 3 (developer's edition). I started with the CustomWidgetTemplate, moved it to the appropriate folder and I can now see it in my app. It is a simple in panel widget with some text. So far so good. Next I want to add a Select dijit and populate it with a list of city names. I examined the DRAW widget because it uses some select dijits. I followed the HTMl and JavaScript patterns from the DRAW widget to add my Select dijit, but when I run the widget in the app, it shows as a regular HTML select and I can't treat it like a dijit. I think I have all the necessary Dojo requires. What am I missing? My widget's HTML <div data-dojo-attach-point="selectCity" style="display:block;height:30px;margin-bottom:7px;"> <div style="float:left;height:30px;;line-height:30px;padding-left:17px;">Select City</div> <select data-dojo-attach-point="citySelect" data-dojo-type="dijit/form/Select" style="float:right;width:50%;height:30px;"></select> </div> My JavaScript. In this code, I get an error if I uncomment the 'citySelect.addOption' line because it says this.citySelect is undefined. If I access this.citySelect from the console, it shows as an HTML select, not a dijit.

‎11-19-2014

Have you watched this one yet? Customizing and Extending Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS | Esri Video

‎10-30-2014

Awesome!

‎10-30-2014

Scott, I might know what happened if we did the same thing. The documentation for the WAB says "The app created by Web AppBuilder can be downloaded and hosted on your web server. Any app that is downloaded must be registered..." Download app—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Beta) | ArcGIS Then it proceeds to tell you to search for "web appbuilder" and then download a file called "webappviewer" and then goes on to tell you how to configure it using JSON config files. I think that is very misleading. As far as I can tell, the app that you have configured online with WAB cannot then be downloaded. These instructions have you downloading the unconfigured viewer, not the Web App Builder. Even though when you search for "web appbuilder" the search results describe what you are going to download as being the WAB, instead you end up with the viewer. The screenshot even shows the web app builder interface. http://kingcounty.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=fffd70b754594c54bc58d90d4e897e19 I figured out hat what you really need to do is go here: https://betacommunity.esri.com/home.html and download the WebApp Builder (Developer addition). Download that, unzip it, then run startup.bat and will run a local copy of the WAB. I did this, then created an app like I had done on AGO and saved it and then I had a local copy of my app pre-configured by the GUI WAB. So far so good! Good luck! - MJ

‎10-29-2014

That's what we'd like to be able to do as well. I will monitor your question in hopes of getting an answer. Thanks for asking this!

‎08-26-2014

Thank you for that excellent and correct response. It doesn't seem to like percentages for the height, but setting it in absolute pixels works great.

‎08-18-2014

How can I enlarge my editor dijit so I don't get annoying scroll bars and lots of useless white space? I have tried to dig into the CSS and find a way, but with no success. Unlike many other classes in the JSAPI, the documentation makes no mention of CSS classes to use when styling the dijit.

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Can we use IIS instead of NODE.js?

Re: My custom widget doesn't turn a select into a dijit, what did I miss?

Re: My custom widget doesn't turn a select into a dijit, what did I miss?

Re: My custom widget doesn't turn a select into a dijit, what did I miss?

Re: My custom widget doesn't turn a select into a dijit, what did I miss?

Re: My custom widget doesn't turn a select into a dijit, what did I miss?

Re: Custom Widget Video Tutorial?

Re: My custom widget doesn't turn a select into a dijit, what did I miss?

My custom widget doesn't turn a select into a dijit, what did I miss?

Re: Custom Widget Video Tutorial?

Re: Can I configure WAB online, then customize locally?

Re: Can I configure WAB online, then customize locally?

Re: Can I configure WAB online, then customize locally?

Re: How can I enlarge my Editor dijit?

How can I enlarge my Editor dijit?

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