Latest Contributions by JadeFreeman

Hi everyone, I am a Universtiy student who is trying to find a way too see as a line the shortest distance between two points. I want arcgis to get around obstacle like lake, mountain (defined as polygon). [/HR] Example: I got 3 shapefile 1. The obstacles are defined has polygon and are on the shapefile ''Obstacles'' 2. The walkable area are on another shapefile  named ''Walkable_Area'' 3. The 2 point (Origin,Destination) are on the last shapefile called ''OD_Points'' Soo i have 2 points one South-west and another Nord-east. I also have a region too navigate and obstacle to get around. The result wanted is the shortest distance, getting around obstacles, between Origin and destination and shown as a line. [/HR] I know that video game use that kind of function really often it's called  A star algorithm. I also know that the A star algorithm is finding is't way in a point to point graph. Soo for video game they has develop the principe of Navigation Mesh. Did that kind of Algorithm/Function exist in Arcgis ?  Cedric P. Did you ever find a solution?  We are trying to do something similar in a campus environment where the goal is to figure out how to navigate buildings while avoiding walls and such. ... View more

Thanks Mike, I agree, it would be difficult to manage customer expectations and functionality.  Perhaps straightforward documentation on how to do more advanced management functions could be added to the online help?  Maybe an 'Advanced Resource Management' section? From digging thru the API, it's quite appears quite robust and putting together a resource center with a few samples would be really helpful. For now, I think I know where to go from here.  I got tired of trying to code popups by handcrafting json documents so I've been using the AGOL tools to put applications together and then extracting the json document needed for our mobile content server thru some FME workbenches.  I'll take a similar approach here to build some functionality to update resource urls. Cheers! Jade ... View more

With a little reverse engineering of the AGOL REST API and looking at the docs (http://www.arcgis.com/apidocs/rest/), it seems there is a REST endpoint that accepts POST submissions.  You can pass in properties to update such as url, tags etc. You can even update the username and password for secured services. I built a simple html form to send the update and it appears to work without losing the popup information.  The trick is finding the id of the folder you have the layer in.  Here is the rest endpoint format: http://www.arcgis.com/sharing/content/users/<username>/<owner folder id>/items/<item id>/update While this appears to work, and I have tested updating the url and service username/password, I can't believe there is not a more 'official' way to do this.  On the service edit page, it seems like there should be an option for updating the url.  If the service is secure, you can update the username/password.  I realize there are probably a lot of potential problems (i.e. what happens if you change the structure of the service by adding/removing layers etc.) but it would be handy when you know the service has not changed, just the location, to be able to quickly update. ... View more

We too are getting this error.  We initially had no problems using the ManageMapCacheTiles service but I attempted to create a new service and generate the tile cache yesterday for the first time in awhile and ran into this error. ... View more

I too would really like to hear from ESRI on this!  Our university has very strict rules about using cloud services which at this point basically equate to completely prohibiting them.  In other words, we can't use ArcGIS online.  I've used it to create the JSON which I then serve on our mobile content server but as the previous poster found out, you end up giving everyone administrative privileges. ... View more

We are on 10.0 and using direct connections to our Oracle database so I don't think that's the issue.  Since yesterday, I've checked a number of things that searching the forums revealed might be problems and have been able to rule them out: OBJECTID being sent as a string Using FeatureLayerTask rather than FeatureLayer (my application is trying to update a stand alone table) Date/Time fields removed At this point, I've created a class that wraps HTTPService to make calls to the ../FeatureServer/table_id/updateFeatures endpoint and it works great.  All efforts to use FeatureLayer/FeatureLayerTask.applyEdits() fail.  Also, the ../FeatureServer/table_id/applyEdits end point fails when I provide the exact same json structure which succeeds at the /updateFeatures endpoint which seems to lend itself to this being an issue with the server, rather than the web API's, but who knows? BTW, I have several iPad maps that can update features in different services with no problem... ... View more

I know this is an older thread but I ran into the same issue today trying to use the Flex API (3.0) FeatureLayer.applyEdits().  It always fails.  I used ServiceCapture to grab the parameters sent to the service and when I use the FeatureServer/tableId/applyEdits REST page, I also get an error.  However, when I take the updates array from the request and use the http://myserver/arcgis/rest/service/featureserver/tableid/updateFeatures REST page, it works just fine! I'll check to see if this was addressed in a service pack tonight. Hopefully this helps someone!  I've spent all day trying to chase this down... ... View more

Thanks!  I will definitely try this out.. ... View more

I'm having the exact same issue.  Did you ever find a resolution? ... View more

Thanks Robert!  I see also that WidgetTemplate has properties to enable closing, resizing, dragging etc. which hide the buttons.  To hide the resize button in the lower right you must also set the resizable property to false. ... View more

I've been trying to compile the 2.3.1 version against the 4.5 sdk.  Is it possible that's why I'm getting the Undefined state "open" error at runtime?  The application compiles just fine but when I run the application and open a widget I get the error. I apologize if I missed the answer in one of the previous posts (I couldn't find a way to translate the non english posts). ... View more