Latest Contributions by RoyceSimpson

Another question Bjorn, if you don't mind:  Currently I've got token based security working via httpservice and my own custom login window.  The window captures not just the service credentials but also other user info... name, phone no, email address, etc... Can the login window for the IndentifyManager be customized to handle more user input besides the service user/password combo? ... View more

Yes, all you have to do is enable the IdentityManager.  It will take care of prompting users to login for ArcGIS Servers that have been secured using token-based authentication. and then using that token as appropriate. "The Identity Manager is a singleton class that, when enabled, will manage the credentials for ArcGIS Server resources secured using token-based authentication. Note that only ArcGIS Server versions 10 SP 1 and greater are supported." http://resourcesbeta.arcgis.com/en/webapis/flex-api/apiref/com/esri/ags/components/IdentityManager.html Wow, ok.  That's great. ... View more

Royce,    So have you tried to submit a graphic that has a null for geometry as in the sample (which by the way is editing a related Flat table).             private function voteImage_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void             {                 const voteRecordAttributes:Object = {                         sf_311_serviceoid: selectedGraphic.attributes.objectid,                         datetime: new Date().getTime(),                         agree_with_incident: 1                     };                 const voteRecord:Graphic = new Graphic(null, null, voteRecordAttributes);                 const incidentVoteTable:FeatureLayer = new FeatureLayer("http://sampleserver3.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/SanFrancisco/311Incidents/FeatureServer/1");                 incidentVoteTable.addEventListener(FeatureLayerEvent.EDITS_COMPLETE, incidentVoteTable_editsCompleteHandler);                 incidentVoteTable.applyEdits([ voteRecord ], null, null);             } I hadn't but just did and damned if it didn't work.  The reason I paid little attention to the sample is because I have another app that is doing it by just supplying the attributes as my previous post shows and it works just fine...  So I was stuck on the "it can't be my code" delusion.  In any case, your suggestion works, even though creating a "graphic" without any geometry is strange.  It's good enough for me. Thanks much. ... View more

Royce,    I Believe you need to submit a graphic to the applyedits no matter what as in this sample: http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/samples/index.html#/Editing_a_related_table/01nq00000020000000/ Thanks Robert but I think it only needs to be a graphic if the layer you are editing is a feature class.  If the layer is a stand alone table, you can just pass the attributes as my code snippet shows.  The documentation for FeatureLayer within the Flex/AGS API pages states, "The feature layer can be used to display features from one single layer of either a Feature Service or a Map Service. The layer can be either a (spatial) layer or a (non-spatial) table. The features in a FeatureLayer can be edited if it is based on a Feature Service. " The applyedits method documentation does not state one way or another if the edits can only be to graphical features. Also, this according the the AGS REST API feature service documentation:  "Records to be added to a table should not include the geometry." Lastly, I can go to the web interface for the stand alone table within the feature service and add a "null" record from within the "applyedits/adds" operation... as in [{}]... and the record is added to the table just fine.  (see the attached png image). ... View more

I'm still having this issue and not sure how to proceed debugging it.  Here is some more detail on what triggers the above exception: I create an object as follows.  This only has attributes since the feature layer that is getting the new record is a stand alone table. _accountObject=      {       "attributes":       {        "OBJECTID":null,        "LASTNAME":txtLastName.text,        "FIRSTNAME":txtFirstName.text,        "EMAILADDRESS":txtEmailAddress.text,        "PHONENUMBER":txtPhoneNumber.text,        "CREATIONDATE": new Date().toString(),        "LASTUPDATE": new Date().toString()       }      } Then invoke the "applyedits" method against the _accountTable stand alone table FeatureLayer with the above object. _accountTable.applyEdits([_accountObject], [], [], new AsyncResponder(applyEditsResults, applyEditsFault)); The exception noted in the OP is what comes next.  Neither applyEditsResults or applyEditsFault get invoked. TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert Object@ee7f749 to com.esri.ags.Graphic. at com.esri.ags.layers::FeatureLayer/http://www.esri.com/2008/ags/internal::editHandler() at mx.rpc::AsyncResponder/result() at com.esri.ags.tasks::FeatureLayerTask/handleApplyEdits() at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::call() I've verified that the object referenced in the exception is "_accountObject". So, I'm not sure why the exception is happening since the feature layer object represents a table and not feature class... Why FeatureLayer.as is trying to convert it to a graphic is escaping me. Once again, it needs to be noted that I am using the Flex/AGS 2.4 API against 10.1 b2 AGS installation. ... View more

i would call gmail significant but not particularly complex. and anyway, geez, that's google. who else has google's engineering resources? the trend for years, at least server side, has been towards more dev productivity (eg, coldfusion), not less. i don't get the rush backwards. one, i think important, point i forgot to mention is the apple/canvas tag HTML5 boogeyman. flex will soon be opensource (except for the tooling & player--which i think adobe simply can't OS because they license stuff in the player). we could soon be faced with a different proprietary overlord, but instead of a fairly open adobe we get apple, who's ideas of technology seem to be more penal colony than their "1984" commercial suggested way back when. I've been trying to immerse myself in a logical, well rationed understanding of all of this and am 100% in line with your analysis and won't add anything to it.  Too bad the news Adobe is dribbling out re Flex/Flash is not being done in a crystal clear fashion and is serving to needlessly spook a lot of impatient, easily spooked folks. ... View more

simpsonr, i have the same problem ... i wanna do something like you.. save the user .. but i cant.. im new in flex... i have a question about your solution.. where you place the fl.addEventListener(FeatureLayerEvent.EDITS_STARTING, editsStartingHandler); what is this "fl" can you help me??? Thanks.. Sure,  "fl" would be a reference to a FeatureLayer object to which I'm adding an event listener. It would have been created thusly: var fl:FeatureLayer = _currentEditor.featureLayers[0]; ... View more

UPDATE:  Darn.  Even though I had to make the below change, the original error is still present.  Wow, that took a lot of time to debug. Answer:  When doing updates to standalone table as in "myFL.applyEdits([], updatedRecords, [], new AsyncResponder(onUpdateResults, applyEditsFault));" The updatedRecords array of attributes JSON objects at AGS version 10 needed to have ObjectID written like:  "objectId". At version 10.1 b1 it needs to be written like "OBJECTID". As in: [{ "attributes": { "OBJECTID":677, "fieldA":"0", "fieldB":"1" } } ] Fun times. ... View more

Royce, Don't perform step 6; this isn't needed for Oracle since there's no database name to register (we're fixing this topic). If you do the other steps, though, this should work. -Kim Thanks Kim. Can you create multiple sde services while using remote databases?  If so, what is the procedure? One thing to note that might not have been clear in the OP is the fact that I'm attempting to get these multiple sde services up on a separate machine than the actual Oracle database. With that in mind, it seems the real issue lies back at step 5.  When I run the "sdeservice -o create" command, it never uses the copied dbinit file that was created in step 2 and just overwrites the original "dbinit.sde" for the new service that I'm trying to create.  In the dbinit.sde (and copied one) I'm not using the "ORACLE_SID" variable... that fails because this is a remote db.  Ironically, I need to use the "LOCAL" connection variable.  So, I go into the newly created and overwritten "dbinit.sde" file and change the default "ORACLE_SID" variable name to "LOCAL". ... View more

The db is Oracle 11g, btw. ... View more

Royce Thanks for the feedback! What type of service are you creating. Is it a map service or feature service? thanks Gary Feature Service was my original need but I've discovered that it doesn't matter.  The results mentioned above happen with or without feature service. I do have further update on this.  Currently we maintain an SDE schema database and have users that have various permissions. Today I created a new "test" user and created an all new "user-schema geodatabase" off of the master sde schema database.  I then added a feature class and a standalone table in that new user-schema gdb.  Added those to arcmap and was successful at publishing the service. So, something just isn't right with our current setup as far as 10.1 goes but that strategy has worked from 9.3 through 10.0x. ... View more