Pop up panel widget not open on first identify of session

[MarkCooper5]

I have the pop up panel widget in one of my apps and the first time you identify a feature in the session, a popup ones normally in the middle of the screen. If you click on the popup panel icon and then identify, it works as I would expect, placing the results in the side panel.

Is there a way to get it to always show popups here, not just when the widget has been selected?

Many thanks

[RobertScheitlin__GISP · Accepted solution]

Mark,

  You need to set the popup panel to open at start.

[MarkCooper5]

Thanks Robert - nice and simple 🙂

[blairtinker]

Robert,

The widget is doing almost exactly what I need but I am having the same issue (doesn't open on first identify) with a caveat.   I am using the tabbed theme and I have an about widget that I need to have open at start to give information about the map before the clicking begins. I was thinking of setting the popup panel to open at start and then programmatically switching to the about panel but that seems pretty messy.  Any way I can tweak the popup panel code to force the content into the panel? Thanks!

BT

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Blair,

   Why not have the about widget in one of the on screen widget placeholders instead and have the popup panel in the tab and both set to open at start.

[blairtinker]

Thanks Robert, 

This is something that I'm pulling together for someone else and they have this idea in their head that they really want a panel on the left where they can toggle between the about (description of the map), a legend and the popup information.  I can actually almost do that with one of the basic templates   but in addition i need to have group filters in widget placeholders which I was having trouble doing on that other template.  I think they will just need to compromise on the design a bit and I'll put the about info in a splash screen so they see it up front and have the popup panel open on start.  Thanks again, this widget is great.

BT