Latest Contributions by MikeTschudi

Hi David, The proxy.* files in Tax Parcel Viewer just support cross-domain access--they don't have token support.  If the secure REST services are on ArcGIS.com, I'd recommend the proxy.* from Esri's map-and-app-gallery app (see this post) along with a modification to the Tax Parcel Viewer to set esriConfig.defaults.io.alwaysUseProxy to true in js\homePage.js.  (Note that we just released a new version of Tax Parcel Viewer to Esri's GitHub site.) This version of proxy.ashx requires that all of the query services need to have the same URL prefix , e.g., "http://www.arcgis.com/sharing/", but the program can be modified. There may be some additional tweaking to the app for the secure URLs, but I think that it's doable.  If the secure REST services are hosted elsewhere, then some custom modifications may be necessary to the proxy.ashx program to adhere to that server's token rules. Rather than use Tax Parcel Viewer, have you considered adapting Park and Recreation Finder? I mention it because it's been a popular base for custom finders. Regards, Mike ... View more

Hi Mark, The initial release of the Parcel Viewer was targeted only for Web Map Mercator Aux Sphere. With an April 12th commit to the local-government-online-apps app on Esri's GitHub site, we added support for arbitrary coordinate systems, so now there's a conversion from the browser's geographic position to the basemap's coordinate system. There was a window of time in which a faulty download appears to have been attached to the Parcel Viewer template, so please be sure that you are working with the latest version. Please also continue to use the s1/apps1/js1 (series 1) version--the series 2 version is under development. Regards, Mike ... View more

Hi Jim, A token is linked to your organizational account and to the URL of the app, so it will work in that app for all services accessible by that account. This post may provide useful information for you. The executive-dashboard app from Esri's GitHub site is an example of accessing private services for a private or public app. Regards, Mike ... View more

Hi David, You can get this by adding a line to the js/utils.js file; where you see the lines function CreateDynamicServiceLayer(layerURL, layerIndex, layerId, isVisible, displayName) {     var imageParams = new esri.layers.ImageParameters();     var lastindex = layerURL.lastIndexOf('/');     imageParams.layerIds = [layerIndex];     imageParams.layerOption = esri.layers.ImageParameters.LAYER_OPTION_SHOW;     imageParams.format = "jpeg";     var dynamicLayer = layerURL.substring(0, lastindex);     var dynamicMapService = new esri.layers.ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer(dynamicLayer, {         id: layerId,         imageParameters: imageParams,         visible: isVisible     });     var initiallyVisible = isVisible; insert the highlighted line to have your map service send the JPEG format instead of the default PNG8. Regards, Mike ... View more

Some background info; there are two important changes to the gallery: The proxy.config file now holds the credentials to the ArcGIS.com gallery The configuration file has been converted from JSON to JavaScript; this was done so that we could run it through a validator, which is very helpful for catching typographic errors The gallery also comes with a web page called checklist.html which is useful for testing the various aspects of the configuration outside of the application itself. ... View more

Hi Allison, Clearly the query, then!  🙂 That's an interesting error response from the server:  a find on the MapServer generates an error, but a query on a layer in that same MapServer works.  Is your site public, or the service? Mike ... View more

Hi Allison, Please do check the technical article that Lindsay posted. Mark addressed the search part of the check, but there's also the display part to check:  you may be getting the parks, but they're not appearing in the results list. One cause of this is an alias name mis-match: there was a window of time where our download was updated at a different time than our information model and the alias didn't match the model. You can test the query part of the operation by following Mark's suggestion to use Firebug. Once the page is up, open the Firebug area and choose the Net tab, and then click Clear. Search for a park by name. The first line in the Net area will be the query; if you look at its response, you'll see that it will be close to dojo.io.script.jsonp_dojoIoScript7._jsonpCallback({"results":[]}); if nothing was found and will be a lot longer and beginning with something like dojo.io.script.jsonp_dojoIoScript6._jsonpCallback({"results":[{"layerId":0,"layerName":"Parks and if there are results. With Chrome's debugger, the tab is called Network and the clear button is along the bottom with an icon consisting of a circle with a slash through it. Fiddler is another great way to see the network traffic. Mike ... View more

Hi Matt, I get the same behavior with the 6706a58177074f38963240d46dd01218 webmap, so I tried to access it with the standard arcgis.com viewer and could not; is it public?  I also tried accessing it via the REST endpoint without success. For exploring the service, I made a webmap using the service; I chose the Landmarks layer (http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=5987ac50eb704c09be4f113ab6a7e74a) and changed the configured DefaultExtent in config.js to "-13623749,4458171,-13541656,4536596", and the app came up with the points. Which layer did you use for the polling places in http://services1.arcgis.com/7QrNu8fd9YfU4kzq/arcgis/rest/services/, please? Mike ... View more

Hi David, Thank you for the information and the URL of the service that you were using. We did have a bug that prevented a layer that didn't have a symbol renderer from appearing in the basemap switcher box. Without the checkbox in the switcher, you can't change the visibility from the user interface. This has been fixed in the latest version of the Tax Parcel Viewer in Esri's github site: a default symbol is provided for the layer. Thanks, Mike ... View more

Hi Tiffany, A polygonal feature layer's link on the bottom will be gray if the address or click query falls outside of all of the polygons in that layer. You can see this on our try-it site (http://localgovtemplates2.esri.com/mygovernmentservices/) if you click outside of Naperville:  Trash Pickup, Recycling Pickup, Yard Waste Pickup, and Street Cleaning are all polygonal layers.  The links for point feature layers continue to be white because the results show the distance from your click to the point features--if you're outside of Naperville, the distances to the point features just get larger. Does this scenario fit your initial search that leads to the grayed Annexed Areas? Mike ... View more