Latest Contributions by DasaPaddock

Instead of retrieving the tiles and stitching them together, the Print GP will make a /export map request to the service if it's a 10.1 service that has dynamic layers enabled on it. This will result in a new image being created from the data since /export will go to the data in this case. In all other cases, /export stitches the cached tiles together. ... View more

You can use the Flash API to upload a file. Here's sample code for this. FileReference: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/FileReference.html#upload() REST API reference: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/rest/apiref/upload_item.html The DataFile also has an itemID property you can set to reference the uploaded file in a GP request: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/flex-api/apiref/com/esri/ags/tasks/supportClasses/DataFile.html#itemID <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark">      <fx:Script>         <![CDATA[             import com.esri.ags.utils.JSONUtil;              import mx.controls.Alert;             import mx.utils.ObjectUtil;              private var fileReference:FileReference;              private var timer:Timer;             private var baseTimer:int;              private function onLoad():void             {                 //Instantiate on loading                 fileReference = new FileReference();                  //create the filter which will be just uploading the txt                 var myFilter:FileFilter = new FileFilter("Zip", "*.zip");                 fileReference.browse([ myFilter ]);                 fileReference.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, onFileSelect);                 fileReference.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onFileComplete);                 fileReference.addEventListener(DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA, onUploadCompleteData);                  timer = new Timer(1000);                 timeElapsed.visible = timeElapsed.includeInLayout = true;                 timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, updateTimer);             }              private function onFileSelect(event:Event):void             {                 var fileUploadRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://server/arcgis/rest/services/ServiceName/GPServer/uploads/upload");                 fileUploadRequest.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;                 var urlVars:URLVariables = new URLVariables();                 urlVars.f = "json";                 urlVars.description = "this is just a test upload";                 fileUploadRequest.data = urlVars;                 fileReference.upload(fileUploadRequest, "file");                  baseTimer = getTimer();                 timeElapsed.visible = timeElapsed.includeInLayout = true;                 timer.start();             }              private function onFileComplete(event:Event):void             {                 timer.stop();                 timeElapsed.visible = timeElapsed.includeInLayout = false;             }              private function updateTimer(event:TimerEvent):void             {                 timeElapsed.text = "TimeElapsed: " + new Date(getTimer() - baseTimer).seconds + "secs";             }              private function onUploadCompleteData(event:DataEvent):void             {                 var result:Object = JSONUtil.decode(event.data);                 Alert.show(ObjectUtil.toString(result), "upload completed - " + result.item.itemID);             }         ]]>     </fx:Script>      <s:Panel id="myPanel"              width="500" height="500">         <s:VGroup>             <s:Button click="onLoad()" label="Upload"/>             <s:Label id="timeElapsed"                      includeInLayout="false"                      visible="false"/>         </s:VGroup>     </s:Panel>  </s:Application> ... View more