Latest Contributions by KevinMacLeod1

Jeff your new site looks really nice. I agree they are two distinct philosophies.  To really win the market ESRI needs both.  I am excited about this! ... View more

I would be happy to participate in this program as a beta tester, if it is a public beta.  I would be glad to identify bugs and submit appropriate console/network traffic, and provide brief user interface and functionality suggestions. I watched the Dev training with Kelly last month and it was great.  This is where I learned about the viewer.  Thank you Kelly and everyone else in the ESRI JS staff for keeping us in the loop.  This is a welcome development.  And needed, now that they are officially deprecating both Silverlight and Flex. ... View more

Portal.  :cool: ... View more

I'm trying to use a token for credentials in a proxy page page but I can't seem to get it to work. Does my service need to be https? Right now I'm using http.  It seems like a pretty easy task, I just can't get it to work. If memory serves right, Yes.  You must force it to use http.  I think it was some ArcGIS Server setting.  This is security by design if I remember correctly. Security can be weird, though.  For me, for example, I get the Identiy Manager popup locally when running in Visual Studio and although it authenticates correctly and loads the layers in the map object the AGS JS TOC doesn't work.  Yet it works perfectly fine on our Amazon cloud which is also set to use proxies.  TOC looks fine.  Identity Manager never pops up. You'd never even know it was secured.  Only thing different is the token in the proxy of course.  Interesting.    Well I hope this helps and you get everything working. ... View more

Gibby by any chance have you set async to true in dojoconfig? ... View more

cadrin merci!  That is a nice looking TOC and website.  And interesting.. as I am going camping near Mégantic soon!  🙂 ... View more

nicholas if I understand you correctly, I want the same thing.  I suspect most developers and end users do.  We want an "Identify" like in ArcMap.  What I need is to Identify on multiple dynamic layers, and identifies on only visible layers, and display all results with page-through, with those little arrows at the top of the infowindow, or another way if that is not supported.  And work with scale-dependent layers as well.  It should know visibility based on Nianwei's AGS JS TOC toggling control. Does anyone have a working example of this, such as a Fiddle, etc? Something perhaps that combines the efforts of these two Fiddles: http://jsfiddle.net/kenbuja/nvNQw/   (works with AGS JS TOC but only one layer) http://jsfiddle.net/blordcastillo/mULcz/    (multiple dynamic layers) It looks like perhaps Tracy created something like this in this thread  http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/93896-conversion-of-mutiple-IdentifyTasks-from-DeferredList-to-Promise-and-All?highlight=identify+visible A solution for scale dependency was apparently proposed in this thread: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/68811-IdentifyTask-Returning-Scale-Dependent-Layers-When-Outside-of-Scale-Range This would probably be a good widget for ESRI to provide as an official Sample as well.  It would be popular. ... View more

this is EXACTLY what we WANT.  ESRI seems to be tone-deaf particularly for the Javascript API. I don't want a bunch of silly map viewers that tell a story.  I want the same 90% functionality in all of them.  Most of all, a Table of Contents and Identify that work like in ArcGIS Desktop.  Or ArcGIS.com's own JS viewer for example. Yet we currently have to code these two things ourselves.  They need to A) incorporate AGS JS TOC from Nian Wei into the API.  B) create a robust sample template or 'viewer' like the Flex / Flash API's Flex Viewer.   The current state of affairs for ESRI JS API is really holding it back particularly for small offices or municipalities that can't afford dedicated programmers, which are basically a requirement to use the current JS API.  Back with Flex/Flash you could have a great viewer up and running in a day.  Now it takes months.  ... View more

this is EXACTLY what we WANT.  ESRI seems to be tone-deaf particularly for the Javascript API. I don't want a bunch of silly map viewers that tell a story.  I want the same 90% functionality in all of them.  Most of all, a Table of Contents and Identify that work like in ArcGIS Desktop.  Or ArcGIS.com's own JS viewer for example. Yet we currently have to code these two things ourselves.  They need to A) incorporate AGS JS TOC from Nian Wei into the API.  B) create a robust sample template or 'viewer' like the Flex / Flash API's Flex Viewer.   The current state of affairs for ESRI JS API is really holding it back particularly for small offices or municipalities that can't afford dedicated programmers, which are basically a requirement to use the current JS API.  Back with Flex/Flash you could have a great viewer up and running in a day.  Now it takes months.  ... View more

This is a good idea. However, I propose for local data, how about they just get rid of "connecting" to a folder.  Is there any other program that can't just use the OS' "Open" dialogue and find files anywhere? This "connect" annoys me on a daily basis. It's a holdover from code from the 1980s.  It's long overdue to get rid of this and just be "connected" to every drive and every folder that Windows is.  Just browse to where you need. ... View more

I had assumed this was like Adobe Acrobat and Reader. Until I needed such functionality and actually downloaded Reader and Explorer.  (v10) Unless ESRI adds ability to export to .pmf in ArcMap, and/or import .mxd in Reader and Explorer... it will significantly limit the usefulness and number of users for Explorer and Reader.  Adobe sells Acrobat because everyone has Reader and thus PDF become the de facto document standard.  Same for AutoCAD .dwg and Design Review.  Perhaps if ESRI opens up MXDs it will become the de facto map document?  Food for thought.   I'd bet it'd make more money in the long run than a handful of Publisher licenses. 😉 ... View more

Derek I encourage you and the dev team to poll users on this functionaly.  Many developers are already using a hierarchical TOC, the AGS JS TOC, which is exactly what we want.  Ultimately it is the the request of users as Jeff stated.  They want a consistent map interface.  Users widely understand the purpose of a TOC.  At this point it is an expected map interface.  From my experience users want a TOC, and an Identify that works (identifies visible layers from multiple services using the TOC, and including scale dependency).   The API is really shaping as a robust web mapping platform.  These are the two biggest remaining components to tackle that I can think of.  Thank you for sharing your thoughts behind the design decisions with us here. ... View more

António, thank you.  This worked. ... View more

I just noticed this, shame, I was selling that as a neat new feature to my users - any chance of adding this back in as an option?  I agree it wasn't for everyone, as if you had a poorly index/large layer it did have a server hit. Cheers ACM amarsden which version was this?  This would save me an incredible amount of time and I will downgrade one of my sites to get this, if it works the way I think it does based on your post.  Can I ask what you mean by this?  So, let's say I have a few dozen layers.  They came from CAD and only have on attribute, 'Layer'.  Things like Road, Driveway, Parking, etc for one layer, for example.  Are you saying that, at least previous versions of AGS JS TOC, would allow us to turn of PART of a layer, based on attribute?  So if I have a Paved Areas layer, with Road, Parking, and Driveway attributes, I would see three checkboxes under the 'Paved Areas' layer and I could turn off just parking, with an older AGS JS TOC?  That would be great for us on one viewer. ... View more

Many thanks - so reported over 3 years ago!!  So, I don't think I'll hold my breath for a fix anytime soon. Anyone know if this is fixed in 3.6?  (I am on lower API for a while longer).  Or if ESRI can comment whether it will be fixed?  NIM is still open. My suggestion would be for ESRI to include a sample that is an Identify widget that identifies all visible layers and works well with AGS JS TOC with dynamic layers with many cascading groups with hundreds of layers, as well as consider including AGS JS TOC in the API itself. ... View more