Latest Contributions by Drew

Peter, The Flex viewer you link is custom and is not the typical ESRI Flex Viewer. It uses the Flex API, but not the ESRI Viewer. If you wanted to use the default Flex Viewer, you might want to change the layout type. That might give you what you need. <widgetcontainer layout="left"> http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/help/index.html#/Widget_Container_tag/01m300000003000000/ I know this post is a little late, but I thought I would answer it. Drew ... View more

An invaluable tool!!  I would like to tweak this to be able to launch it from the header bar like all other widgets - would this require more work than it's worth or is this an easy task?  Thanks! philipp, I hope to update it soon.. Thanks for your interest ... View more

Great little widget, works like a charm. I can get the displayed coordinates to show only 2 decimal points, but can't figure out how to make the X,Y copied to the clipboard be only 2 decimal points. Especially would like to be able to set this for the copy Map coord to clipboard.  Would be nice for the projected coordinates also, but mainly would like to get the map coords truncated. Am I missing something easy?  If not, any suggestions? Thanks, R_ Career ESRI beta tester rzufelt, That functionality is not configurable yet If you want, you can modify the source code and recompile to get your desired functionality now. EDIT line 197, 198 in CoordinateMenuWidget.mxml to be the following... copyString = copyString.replace(/{X}/g, mPoint.x.toFixed(2)); //replace X copyString = copyString.replace(/{Y}/g, mPoint.y.toFixed(2)); // replace y I will try and add that functionality into the config next release.. Thanks for the info Drew ... View more

Does anyone know of any company out there now hiring a flex developer? If so please provide name and contact information, Thanks. I see a lot of "web developer" jobs on GJC. Its a decent site for the US market. Map of jobs: http://www.gjc.org/map.html Drew ... View more

WIDGET UPDATE Compatible with Viewer 2.4 ! URL: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=edd4a2b7c722493a8b08f53eaa131e1e Source Code and Compiled Code included in download. ... View more

Sorry, the word document is unreadable. Basically you have to make sure every parent container the map is in has a width and height of 100% So.. If the map is contained in border containers, HGroups, VGroups etc.. make sure they ALL have a width and height of 100% ... View more

Hi ANdrew... thank you for the quick response.. which file these (BorderContainer, HGroup, VGroup) will be under? Thanks Can you post your MXML file so I can see how your application is configured. ... View more

Hi Andrew. I have the width and the height of the application set to 100% and it still not working... any other idea? thank you Nasif make sure your Map and its outer containers (i.e: BorderContainer, HGroup, VGroup) are also set to 100% width and height ... View more

Thanks for the samples guys. Here is a service you can see my problem with. You can test a working FIND operation on an ARN (Assessment Roll Number) here http://maps.simcoe.ca/ArcGIS/rest/services/Dynamic_UnSecured/DUA_SearchLayers/MapServer/find?searchText=431202000602000&contains=true&searchFields=ARN&sr=&layers=2&layerdefs=&returnGeometry=false&maxAllowableOffset=&f=HTML It is my understanding that if no searchFields are specified all fields are searched. So by removing the ARN field from the request it should produce the same results, but my testing shows it does not. You can test here. http://maps.simcoe.ca/ArcGIS/rest/services/Dynamic_UnSecured/DUA_SearchLayers/MapServer/find?searchText=431202000602000&contains=true&searchFields=&sr=&layers=2&layerdefs=&returnGeometry=false&maxAllowableOffset=&f=HTML When using an MXD both work, but in an MSD only the one with the field specified works. Thanks for taking the time to assist. Andrew ... View more

Drew, FIND will find values such as "123456" as long as this value is stored in a string field. is that the use case here or is that value stored in a numeric field? Ravi Ravi We do have the number in a string field. Our solution is to publish the MXD instead of the MSD. We found that the FIND opertation does not function as expected when using an MSD. Drew ... View more

OK I have seen just this week that there might be an issue with the REST Find Operation and a service published from an MSD vs. and MXD. Specifically we are using SQL Server 2008 and ArcSDE 9.3.1. We noticed a possible issue with text fields that hold numeric values like 1234. I have not tried to query the area or length fields. For now try and publish your Map Service from the MXD and see if it works any better. If it does then for now I think you have to use the MXD. We wanted to use the MSD because of transparency issues, what do you need the MSD? Are you using SDE? If so what version and specifically which RDBMS are you using (SDE, Oracle, etc...)? This seems to be the problem for us also.. Our MSD base services do not 'FIND' values such as 123456.  Currently  we do not have the latest SP installed, has there been a fix for this yet? I can not find any release notes about it in the latest SP (10.0 SP2) release. Thanks. Drew ... View more

Frank, The way I do is by sending the layer ID and Object ID (or any unique identifier) from the Flex app to a custom .NET web service. Then my web service uses the ESRI SOAP API to query that feature and get it's attributes and pushes them into a Microsoft Report (designed using Visual Studio). Once the report is complete in code I stream the bytes to an .ashx handler file and send it back to the client. It sound complicated but if you know ASP.NET it can be accomplished quite nicely. Drew ... View more

What is the best way to capture XY from Context menu. I added a context menu and when i click,  it capture xy.  I am not satisfied with the results. any help ... [HTML] protected function contextMenuItem_menuItemSelect(event:ContextMenuEvent):void{     myMapPoint = new MapPoint();         myMapPoint = myMap.toMapFromStage(event.contextMenuOwner.mouseX, event.contextMenuOwner.mouseY);        } [/HTML] Download my Flex widget and see the source code on how I did it. Coordinate Menu Widget http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=edd4a2b7c722493a8b08f53eaa131e1e Drew ... View more

Similarly, you can make a request through a proxy, like the one esri has examples for.  That should work as well This is probably a better and simpler solution that mine 🙂 ... View more

My Flex viewer needs to access a web service on a remote server (not ArcGIS Server). The server administrator does not want a crossdomain.xml file placed on that server. What are my options? You could probably re-route the web service by writing your own custom webservice that consumes the one you want, then you can control the crossdomain.xml file on your end. so the architecture would look like... Flex App -> Your Webservice -> Their web service Drew ... View more