Document scanning widget

[MaziziJama]

Hello,

We are looking in extending an application created with ArcGIS Webapp Builder Developer Edition to include functionality of accessing document scanners within the application.

The typical use case is:

A user launches the web application

Searches for a property

Opens the scanning widget (the scanner could be A4 - A0)

Scans the documents (supporting documents, maps, building plans)

Saved on file (1 or more documents can be associated with a single property)

Hyperlink is added to the table

I have also seen the following SDKs:

TWAIN Scanning SDK for Web Browser Applications - Dynamic Web TWAIN

scanner.js - Scans documents and uploads images to web servers directly from browsers IE Chrome; Jav...

Any advise will be appreciated

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Mazizi,

   Not real sure what type of advice you are looking for but here is some suggestions.

1. For the building the widget basics see the Creating a custom in-panel widget help document link: Create a custom in-panel widget—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Developer Edition) | ArcGIS for Developer...

2. You already have the link and info for getting your scanner stuff through .net. Hopefully that .net portion will return a url string for you to use in step 3.

3. You need to build out your link fields in the Feature Service you will be adding the document links to. My suggestion is that you determine the number of document links you will support and add those link fields to the Feature Server service (you need to have a map service that has Feature Access enabled so that you can apply edits to that service layer). Look at the JS APIs applyEdits method on a FeatureLayer: FeatureLayer | API Reference | ArcGIS API for JavaScript | applyEdits

[MaziziJama]

Robert,

Thank you for your response, it is highly appreciated.

In terms of advise, it is to see if people have ever implemented something like this and maybe provide further suggestions.