Latest Contributions by MattDriscoll

Hi Tracy, Here's a good article on them: http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/ Another: http://browserdiet.com/#sprites You could also use data-uri to base64 encode the images and put them directly in CSS if they are small. You should be able to overwrite the styles that you see in the CSS inspector like you planned. That may be the simplest option if you just want to change the two icons. Or you could restyle the whole thing by not including the Dojo theme CSS for the slider. Which is the tougher option. I've done this with the social media template: http://www.arcgis.com/apps/SocialMedia/index.html The small sliderStyle is much easier to restyle if you don't mind not having the slider to drag. ... View more

Hey RTC GIS, https might be the issue. Any way you could get your server using HTTPS? Otherwise, it might be the proxy. Did you set up a proxy on your server? Make sure to change the portal URL in the config if you have your own subscription as well. ... View more

var radarloop = new modules.WURadarLayer('###'); The namespace is modules and that is how it must be called, per above. Now it works nicely. Yeah, the example I used was using Dojo AMD format which is a little different. glad you got it working! ... View more

Hey Thanks for your reply but unfortunately it doesn't work! 1. Point: I've ad my twitter username in the search term as you can see in my config.js-file (http://test.maturstreich2012.hourb.com/map/config/config.js) and as you can see on my twitter page (https://twitter.com/momoGschmid) all my test-tweets are geolocated. What is missing? 2. As you can see in the config.js file, I've also got a flicker-key without any search term, because i want to pin any photos from my account on the map. But that pins me a lot of photos, but not mien! Then I tried it with the username and ID (CanadaRunner, 674XXXX@N06) in the searchterm and no photo was pinned! What do I need to ad, when I only want to pin my photos from my flickr account . Here is my map until now! http://test.maturstreich2012.hourb.com/map/index.html Thanks for your advice Hi Lorenz, The twitter REST API only shows recent tweets. It looks like the last tweet you have is from November. You'll have to modify the flickr code to send your username if you just want to show your photos. Flickr's API isn't as nice for using operators. http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html You'll need to send your user_id as an argument and an empty search term I would suspect. Let me know if that works. ... View more

Hi schmidlorenz, If you just want to show a specific user you can just enter "@username" as the search term. Yes, to show flickr, you'll need to get a key. You can get one from here: http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/apply Then you can enter whatever search terms you would like to match photos. ... View more

Hello, Can you try downloading the code from here: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=18230986538047b4b761715f0b5dd913 I wasn't seeing that message. What browser are you using? ... View more

OK, if I understand this correctly I will need an api key from http://www.wunderground.com correct to get this to work correctly? Yep. correct. ... View more

We don't have the new version with a layout.js file either - the code for older versions is located in scripts\home\local.js. Here's a app that you can use to remove the url parameter from your webmaps. Log in and fix any webmap that has a url property. http://servicesbeta.esri.com/demos/urlfix.html The url property shouldn't be added anymore when editing webmaps. Thanks ... View more

Thanks. We are hosting the app ourselves - do you have pointers on what code needs to be changed? Hi Tom, Yes, if you're using the latest version of the template you can just replace /javascript/home/layout.js. If you've modified or are using a previous version, you'll need to change this if statement if (data.results.url) {                 itemURL = data.results.url;                 externalLink = true;             } to this: if (data.results.url && data.results.type === "Web Mapping Application") {                 itemURL = data.results.url;                 externalLink = true;             } And the same thing for the autocomplete. if (ACObj[locNum].url && ACObj[locNum].type === "Web Mapping Application") {                 mapURL = ACObj[locNum].url;             } ... View more

I'm experiencing the same problem - when you say 'next update', does that mean something that changes on esri's end or something that we will have to update and change on ours? Also, any timeline for the update? Thanks It will occur on Esri's end sometime this week. A code change may be necessary if you're hosting the app yourself otherwise it will automatically be fixed. ... View more

This morning I created a brand new ArcGIS Online map and shared it with the group used by my gallery. Worked great - showed up in the gallery and the link brought me to the webmap ID address when I clicked on the new gallery item. I then went and edited the information about the map (description, access and use constraints). After I saved that information and tried to view the map in the gallery again, the gallery link sent me to the URL for the map (which doesn't actually exist). It definitely seems tied to editing the information about the ArcGIS Online map - is there something in this process that assigns the map a URL? Hi Elizabeth, We've found the problem and applied a fix for the next update. Thanks! ... View more

I'm not advocating that Esri switch to jQuery, but here are some reasons I prefer to use jQuery over Dojo. jQuery has better documentation than Dojo. Not just jQuery and Dojo's own websites, but it's easier to find outside tutorials for accomplishing a task with jQuery than with Dojo using a search engine. Most things are more complicated in Dojo than jQuery.  For example, try going through the both the jQuery Mobile and Dojo Mobile tutorials. I found that it is much easier for me to create my own widgets in jQuery (using the jQuery UI Widget Factory) than it is to create "dijits". The Dojo UI controls are weird.  When you create a Dojo UI Button, it changes the HTML button element into a span element. When you create a jQuery UI Button, it remains an HTML button. When I create controls for developers who have no GIS experience, I currently create them using jQuery UI Widget Factory using a minimal amount of Dojo as required for the ArcGIS JS API. These are good points and probably my biggest gripes with Dojo as well. I do like the new AMD way of writing code though. Dojo.query makes it almost as easy as jQuery. I would add theming/styling to the list as well. The dojo dijits have odd UI/UX and use many unnecessary and invalid HTML elements and sometimes use tables for layout. If you want to use a theme for all but one widget, it's difficult. The documentation is a big issue. The documentation is often missing things or not detailed enough. It's also hard to switch between the documentation and reference guide when looking at a function. ... View more

I'm having issues with opening some of the maps in our map gallery - I first noticed this happening on 12/24. I updated and resaved the information for some of our ArcGIS Online maps, and this seems to have changed how the URL is opened in our map gallery for those items. I did not make any changes to the code for our gallery and it was previously working fine. When you click on a map in our gallery, it used to open with the URL formatted like this: http://dnrc.mt.gov/gis/gallery/map.html?webmap=31795d4989dd47f192914d47a57bee18. Items in the gallery that I've recently saved now direct you to a URL that's formatted like this: http://dnrc.mt.gov/gis/gallery/state_of_montana_trust_lands_1326385606393. The second link doesn't exist - any thought on why the gallery might be looking for this URL now? The logic that happens is if the item object has a "url" property it uses that otherwise it uses the webmap ID. Does this item have a URL entered in it's object? Any way to remove the URL so it just opens as a webmap? I'm not sure why it has a URL if it's just a webmap. Thanks ... View more