Sample Javascript Viewer

[ChristianSmith]

Does anyone know if the sample viewer team plans to upgrade, change / modify the JS sample viewer in the near future ?

Thanks

Smitty

[SolGis]

No one? I also need to know this

[ChristianSmith]

From talking with the ESRI folks at the Conference and through emails, there is no longer any support for the javascript sample viewer. If you want an upgraded version, you will need to do it yourself.  There are posts in the old thread which tell you how to upgrade to at least 1.6

http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/apis/javascript/arcgis/index.cfm?fa=codeGalleryDetails&script...

[IsmaelChivite]

Hi,

we currently have no plans to update the ArcGIS API for Javascript Viewer Sample. This sample was posted early as an unsupported viewer. I encourage you to have a look at the ArcGIS.com Javascript Viewer. See recent blog post here.

Ismael Chivite
ArcGIS Server Product Manager
Esri

[SantiagoLastra]

Hello, Ismael, in the last 2011 ESRI European Conference, people from ESRI presented the "ArcGIS Viewer for Javascript", that could be accessed through the URL http://links.esri.com/javascript. Sorry, but I'm not able to find this configurable sample viewer for download and instructions to configure it. In the URL http://resources.arcgis.com/content/web/web-apps I have moticed that there is no reference to this viewer, while there are links to the "ArcGIS Viewer for Flex" and the "ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight". Have ESRI discontinued this viewer?
Best Regards,
Santiago Lastra.

Hi,

we currently have no plans to update the ArcGIS API for Javascript Viewer Sample. This sample was posted early as an unsupported viewer. I encourage you to have a look at the ArcGIS.com Javascript Viewer. See recent blog post here.

Ismael Chivite
ArcGIS Server Product Manager
Esri

[JeffPace]

It hasnt been updated in years.  We extensively modified it when it came out, so we are basically committed to it.  It was never template/drag and drop.  It was always a customize the code type approach.

[DanMcCoy]

Please vote for these ideas...
http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=0873000000086xY
http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=08730000000bvMl

[NianweiLiu]

Apparently there are interest there, and Esri may not be able to pull enough resource together to do this anytime soon (considering original version has been unchanged for quite a few years), I was wondering if there is enough commitment from user community to produce one?

There are a couple approaches, such as upgrade from the original JS version, or start from one of the simpler templates on arcgis.com and evolve that into something equivalent to the counterparts in sliverlight or flex. 

The current arcgis.com is quite good at authoring, but kind of missing the capability to customization, and the those customizable templates are not as comprehensive as the flex/silverlight viewers. Pre-defined query/search etc are completely missing(think the deprecated Web ADF), so there are lots of work, but I think the user community can pull it off with collective effort.

Thoughts?

[TrevorWeiland]

ESRI seems to be committed to the ArcGIS.com hosted configuration solution for JavaScript, which is unfortunate for those of us whose IT infrastructure drops internet connectivity routinely or at all concerned with continuing to provide our applications in an EOC where the internet is lost.

The other viewers (Flex/Silverlight) have their own issues and will become depreciated as the popularity of those plug-ins decreases but they are much more GIS Specialist friendly (especially with the Flex Viewer application builder).  Microsoft has already announced the lack of an upgrade path for Silverlight in the coming years- how far is Flash behind that?

A Sample JavaScript viewer is ideal all the way around and it would certainly help me move away from using the Sample Flex Viewer to serve our web applications.  Unfortunately, I don't have the JS skills to produce such a viewer and every time I look at moving to JS, I am stymied by the push to the hosted configurations.

[derekswingley1]

Hi Trevor,

Have you looked into the app templates from ArcGIS.com? You might be interested in the basic viewer app template.

Another option would be to use Portal to host your own ArcGIS.com�??like site.