Latest Contributions by EricGardecki

‎12-31-2014

Hello and happy new year! I've started researching what steps I need to take in order to allow editing of certain features within my web apps or mobile apps and am getting a little overwhelmed and question some things that I've read. I'm hoping someone can start me on the right track with this by answering some questions so I can then continue learning the necessary steps. I have all of my data layers in a file geodatabase, managed with ArcGIS Desktop Basic and have ArcGIS Server Workgroup Standard for supporting my web/mobile apps. Currently using Flex and the basic ESRI app to access via mobile. I do not use ArcGIS Online much at all and am unfamiliar with the inner workings. I want to be able to allow some users (currently no one but myself does any editing of our data at all so I have no existing users set up in any place) Is a "feature service" the only way to allow for editing via AGS? I read here that using a feature service requires an enterprise geodatabase (of which I have no experience). Can you verify that this is the case before I would take the leap to completely change my entire data structure? Is there a way via AGO to allow editing without the enterprise gdb? I currently use the ESRI mobile app for viewing my map service but it, or Server, doesn't seem to support the ability to have 2 different connections, 1 open publicly and 1 requiring a login for editing. At least this was the case a few years ago when I first set up the JSON for mobile. Is this still the case? Is there some alternative? Is "Collector" a better app for this? It seems to be tied to AGO (it asks for a login rather than a way to connect to a map service) and I do not know what the relationship would be like between it and my Server services. Before I really dive in, what are the key things, or caveats, I need to keep in mind? Thanks much for any info you can offer!

‎12-05-2014

I've been trying to do just this for awhile now and can't seem to get it to work. In this case I'm using the World_Topo_Map basemap ( <layer label="Streets" type="dynamic" visible="false" alpha="1" url="http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer"/> ). If I set it to dynamic it flat out just doesn't display whatsoever. No errors and everything else displays but not that basemap. If I set it to tiled, and it's the first basemap to load, it works but I get the undesired results of having LODs (i want freedom to zoom to whatever I want, including in farther than the basemap allows). If I load a different, dynamic, basemap first and have the topo as tiled as another basemap option, it won't display at all when switching to it....no errors just nothing there. I've been using my own basemap for awhile now due to this issue but I'm trying to fix it once again. I do not have this problem with some of the other basemaps such as aerials or "USA_Topo_Maps" but wanted one of the ones with the streets and such as my first loaded, or at least an option! Any suggestions?

‎12-04-2014

When I went through the process of using the WAB beta, found here Make your first app—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Beta) | ArcGIS I was able to add my own map service to it. But the app itself still lives within ArcGIS Online and I can't seem to pull that creation out to host on my end (and therefore customize it further). However, I did find a download elsewhere (in the gallery once logged into my organization) for what seems to be a sample version of the WAB that should give me a starting point. Yes I do have the organizational account (though I have done very little in there) but I wish I really understood the purpose/advantages of it all. If I already have ArcGIS Server, why would I want to use AGOL?

‎12-03-2014

that last reply was to Tim. Robert, I did see that web appbuilder existed (just today) but when I started looking into it seems to be tied directly to ArcGIS Online rather than a separate platform to use ArcGIS server services? I know very little of ArcGIS Online and assumed it existed for those that do not have ArcGIS server. Not to mention the viewer used seems to leave a lot to be desired and wouldn't I then have to point users to that account rather than my own webserver? I'm probably missing something. Unfortunately I've just been too busy to keep up with the changes around here! What is the relationship between Web AppBuilder and ArcGIS Online or, more importantly to me, other platforms? When I do some research it isn't explained at all and the getting started instructions point right to ArcGIS Online and I don't understand why.....which must be because I'm used to server service > viewer that consumes that service > end user browses to said viewer hosted on local web server.

‎12-03-2014

I believe that will be very helpful....and your reply that I'm not alone may help drive me to give it a go. thanks!

‎12-03-2014

Thanks Steve. Oh boy....It looks like I'm in for a ton of learning and work migrating to JS. Despite having the OOTB FlexViewer on hand, working with customizing it was quite a learning experience (i'm no developer...just dabble...and don't know anything about JS). JS seems way beyond that since I'll basically have to learn everything before I can start rather than how I usually work which is have a starting product, look at the guts of it, and customize as needed. Maybe I'll change my mind on diving into this lol but I'll take a look at the links you gave. Thanks for the response.

‎12-03-2014

Hello, I've been using the Flexviewer for a few years now to display my services from arcgis server but since it is being phased out and Javascript seems to be the way to go I wanted to explore it. The problem is, I can't seem to find what i'm looking for on this new site layout! Where do I get the basic javascript viewer like the flexviewer? I can't seem to find the downloads I'm looking for. I would normally look at the forum for Javascript viewer and expect some "sticky" with getting started info but this new forum layout makes it so difficult to find anything. Can anyone point me to where to get started using a javascript viewer? Thanks!

‎08-06-2014

I've tried it with the TOC open and closed at load. When set as open, and it fails to load, it causes the whole app to fail to load and isn't usable. If set to be closed, everything else always works...they just may not be able to use the TOC when opening the widget as it may not load sometimes. I've always used the default instance settings as i'm not sure of what to set to. I could try setting the max to 5 and see what happens. Which service would this be tied to? I have two map services loading, one basemap, one with features. Hmm..since the TOC is pulling from the latter (basemap isn't shown in TOC) maybe that would be the one?

‎08-06-2014

The PchPrintWidget is the major factor. We find it to be a necessity. It was no longer updated after 3.0 (works at 3.1 too) but it has a few issues in 3.6. Selections obscure labels on the prints and popups cease to work after opening the widget. I was unable to solve these issues on my own so I went back to an older version. I settled on 3.1 because everything (until I found this current issue) that I use worked. Setting up 3.5 would be a ton of work (customizations on some widgets and such) and I have no idea if I'll have the same print issues or not....but I'll keep this in mind for a rainy day. thanks

‎08-06-2014

I appreciate your response. It just sucks that I have to go with the OOTB legend and layer list. Now that I added them I remember why I don't like them. Your TOC combined the two and honored the layer structure (expanded or collapsed). Of course, I'm not even sure this will solve the problem anyway. I'll have to try it for awhile and see what happens. If you happen to have any ideas on what could be going wrong, let me know. Thanks

‎08-05-2014

Turns out the issue is still happening. Anyone have any other ideas? In the meantime I'll have to try out some other TOC options like the OOTB one. Thanks

‎07-18-2014

I'm using flex viewer 3.1 (I had to revert to an older version to get each widget I am using to work) and am having an issue that seems to come from Robert's TOC widget (3.1.5), or at least something else affecting it. If I have the widget set to preload, occasionally it will seemingly freeze up during load and be blank. The map layers then do not load either. This forces the user to refresh, which usually clears it up. I have since changed things to have the widget not preload, however (again, occasionally) when opening the widget it sometimes comes up blank and forces a refresh in order to turn on/off layers. I can't figure out what is going on with it or why it is only occasionally. I found this thread which led to a change that I applied but I'm not certain that it is the same issue or not. I haven't had enough time to see if that truly helps or not so I wanted to see if anyone knows if this is definitely the solution, and if not, what is? thanks! !

‎05-23-2014

It has been bothering me that when a popup window is open, and I want to scroll down in that window by clicking and holding,the scroll bar, if I have the zoom tool active, it draws the zoom box as I use the scroll bar and then zooms in on release. Basically, the navigation tools apparently function through the popup window. This only happens with zoom in and out and not pan. The same thing happens when trying to select text within the window. I'm using Flexviewer 3.1. (updating is not an option as at least one of my widgets will not work on later versions) Anyone else see the same thing and/or have any suggestions? thanks

‎04-10-2014

I am using Robert's TOC as well. I'm starting to think there is a conflict there for 3.1 but I don't know why it only happens for one of my users on this end. Maybe i'll try to remove some of the edited code and see if it has an effect. It is difficult for me to test though as the machine with the issue here is in use. If I'm able to figure anything out I will let you know.

‎04-10-2014

Does this same thing happen while using an unedited ConfigManager? Are you using the original TOC or Robert's custom?

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