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Changing the search widget link icon

I want to change the pre-defined red arrow link icon in the search widget to another icon: Where would I do this? It looks like the widget is drawing from the InfoPopupWidget.swf?
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Workflow for importing a flexviewer website into Flashbuilder 4

I have websites built using the flexviewer, but would like to import them into Flashbuilder 4 in order to enhance them. Is there a way to do this by importing the .xml or config.xml from the compiled ...
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How can I add menus to Flex Viewer 2?

I have a lot of widgets and my dashboard in Flex Viewer 2 has gotten cluttered. How can I add menus to the dashboard rather than buttons to organize the widgets? Any help will be appreciated.
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How do you create Map Tips with Flex?

I'd like to have Map Tips display when a user hovers over or clicks on a feature in my Flex Application. Would I do this in the authoring stage or is there code I write into my Flex application??? ...
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Feature edition errors

I've created a feature editor, of a puntual feature layer, in a flex 3.1 client. The feature layer is served by a feature service in ArcGIS Server 10.0. When I try to update or delete features (I ...
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How can I web map service published by Dojo in Flex app

We want to include a base map layer in hosted Flex app. We requested web map service from the vendor and I got a file (.htm) from client with some dojo code. I can understand the code but I am not ...
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Adding WMS and WFS layers from GEOSERVER in arcgis viewer for flex 3.0

I am interested in adding feature layers from geoserver in arcgis viewer for flex config file and consequently display them on the web map.IS that possible? If yes, could someone share how they did ...
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Difference between DynamicMapServiceLayer and TiledMapServiceLayer

I'm a bit of a noob to Esri still so I have a few questions regarding these two types: What is the difference between DynamicMapServiceLayers and TiledMapServiceLayers? Do separate services need to ...
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Using the Flexviewer 2.4 I want to toggle layers from one service on/off

I have 2 layers in one service. If the user clicks one on, I want the other one to turn off, and vice versa. I am using the default flexviewer LayerListWidget.mxml and assume this is the place where ...
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How to create Esri Flex Geometry from WKT

I am working with Esri flex 2.3 API, I am also using Abode BlazeDS for server side binding. I am sending a geometry as WKT from server into my flex client and I am looking for a way to convert the ...
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No route results after calling network analyst service

I have published a network analyst service and I'm trying to use it from the Flex API 3.1. When I use the service in ArcMap or through the rest GUI in a browser, the service returns the right answer. ...
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How can I migrate from agslib 2.1 to agslib 3.1

I have an application which is developed using agslib 2.1. I want to migrate t to agslib3.1. When I use the new library, There is an error in MapManager.mxml code as "Call to a possibly undefined ...
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Modifying the LocateWidget.mxml Locate and Clear functions

I am using Robert's compiled TOC widget and attempting to modify the LocateWidget.mxml for the flexviewer. The workflow I have in mind is that user performs an address search clicks the locate button ...
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ArcGIS Flex API: Loop thru map graphics and make them visible

Using the flex viewer 2.4 and Flex 4.5 SDK. I have a bunch of map graphics stored in a map layer. Initially, each graphic is set to visible = false. At the click of a button, I want to loop over each ...
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Passing GPString value via Flex

In this example from the ArcGIS for Flex samples page: Clip and Ship I am curious how from this function how the label property of each check box that is passed as input for the Layers_to_Clip ...
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When creating annotation from labels is it possible to feature-link another annotation layer?

I have an annotation layer that is currently being used in the flex viewer and I would like to add a secondary annotation layer/line so that it sits directly underneath the first. I am able to link ...
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Can REST or the ArcGIS API for Flex read VAT tables from a Raster?

When publishing a bare earth DEM that has a VAT table, or value attribute table "A VAT is a table containing attributes for a grid, including user-defined attributes, the values assigned to cells in ...
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list all authorized services for a given user in ArcGIS 10.1 API FLEX

I'm trying to get the list of all authorized services for a given user in ArcGIS 10.1 API for FLEX. I can't find a way to automatically list all of the services granted to my account. I can fix the ...
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Why can ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer read a cache service?

I received a cache folder created from a MXD that I don't possess. Then I was asked to publish that cache as a map service. To do that, I created a map service using a MXD (I created) that contains ...
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ESRI Flex API - Modify Style of Draw Toolbar Tooltips

Can anyone tell me how I can change the styling of the Draw Toolbar's tooltips in the ESRI Flex API? If I use apply the style shown below - ALL of the application's tooltips inherit this style. I ...
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Negative values in Flex app

I have a contractor working for me on a Flex application. He retrieves recordset for a intersect query from the web service published in house. But he is getting some ids as negative random number ...
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CompositeSymbol that includes TextSymbols and SimpleFillSymbol does not draw map

Following is the code snippet that does not draw both TextSymbols. private function MapClick(evt:MapMouseEvent):void { var cs:CompositeSymbol = new CompositeSymbol(); ...
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How to create custom fill styles for SimpleFillSymbol with ArcGIS API for Flex?

Does anybody have created custom fill styles for SimpleFillSymbol? I want to create a style that fills the polygon with circles. Any help would be appreciated.
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'Smart' symbology for categorized Point data which is prone to clustering: ArcMap or Flex API?

I'm working on what will become an interactive online map showing things like municipal services and leisure activities in a certain area. They exist as Points, and are categorized as 'police ...
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Modifying the OverviewMapComponent.mxml

In the flexviewer I want to add text in the overview map that says "overview map." I am not sure what the code would be and assume it would be place in the s:BorderContainer component? <?xml ...
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Please help extending com.esri.ags.symbols.LineSymbol for flex-API

I want to create an extended line symbol so that I had more control over it to draw line and other shapes in it. I can accomplish it by extending it. I was very pleased to see the example to extend ...
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Is there a way to programatically trigger popups using the operationallayer config?

I have a widget that queries a group of features, and I'd like to be able to trigger a popup that looks and behaves the same as the one that gets generated when the user clicks on the map. Is there a ...
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Changing the selection color in the flexviewer 2.4?

I am under the impression that by changing the 4th color (in this case 0x000000) will change the Selection color. However, when I go use the search tool, my results are still displayed in the old ...
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Help needed for extended symbol

I am trying to extend Symbol class in ARGIS Flex API. this is my widget named TestWidget http://pastebin.com/04w6RSur and here is the extended symbol class http://pastebin.com/bqhDzdSe named ...
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Example of RasterData class in ArcGIS for Flex

How would I use the RasterData class in com.esri.tasks.supportClasses for ArcGIS API for Flex? I haven't found any documentation for it outside the API and that doesn't give much info either. Could I ...
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How can I draw custom shapes on Graphics layer?

Hello everyone I need help. Any clue, guidance or help that would be appreciated, please bear with me as I am still struggling with Flex 4. What is the simplest way to draw custom shapes using < ...
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How to draw curves in Flex Viewer?

I want to draw curves from a given point to another in Sample Flex Viewer like shown below. Any help?
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How to group distinct layers together in ESRI Flex app?

I'm wondering if anybody has idea for how to best group distinct layers -- even layers of differing types like DynamicLayer, WFSLayer, etc. The goal in mind is that they could be visually represented ...
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How to exclude the “More” tab where your operational layers are stored in the Flexviewer 2.2

I am using Robert's awesome TOC widget. I want to exclude the "more" tab where your operational layers show up, because they are listed in the TOC widget. Can I do this in the config.xml?
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Is it possible to change dynamically the map spatial reference?

I have a map that uses ArcGIS Online in the small scales. So my map needs to be in Web Mercator in small scales. In the big scales, my web client Flex application uses some feature and map services to ...
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How do I essentially crop an ArcGISTileMapServiceLayer as an object while maintaining the integrity of the basemap

I am using the up-to-date flex api and esri api for flex. I know how to use flex to obtain a snapshot of a map, but ultimately what I want to do is retrieve a scaled up image of a part of the basemap. ...
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Flex Map component, update extent on resize

I have application with Flex Map component. Application has several states, and map component's size is changed depending on states. When state is changed, I need to change extent. But for some ...
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How to build a mobile app from Flex web app

We have a Flex application based on ArcGIS flex API in the final stage of development and ready to move to testing/production. The application uses some map services and a complex GP tool. My boss ...
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ArcGIS Viewer for Flex UniqueValueRenderer error

Trying to compile (in 3.0) an ArcGIS Flexviewer widget that was created in v2.4 of the AGS api for flex, and receive a UniqueValueRenderer error as follows. Code is below also. Encountered errors or ...
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How to retrieve metadata from a feature layer in ArcGIS Server 10 using Flex

I need to retrieve the metadata information from a feature layer. I have the web services available and I can run queries to retrieve the feature attributes, but I don't know any method to retrieve ...
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Fields from a selected feature set are missing when gp.submitJob(..)--in Flex— pushes feature set to geoprocessing service (in Python)

I am extending existing query functionality that I have added to the ArcGIS Flex Viewer. I would like to extract the results from a query--which consists of a FeatureSet--into a .gdb. In order to do ...
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ArcGIS Flex API: Keep info window on top of other widgets?

I am working on a web mapping widget using the ArcGIS flex API and ArcGIS Flex Viewer. I have a infoWindow popup when there is a mouse rollover on a map graphic. Problem: the infoWindow renders ...
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Help required with size of the symbol

I am adding a picture marker symbol to graphic layer like this in Map click event: const mapPoint:MapPoint = map.toMapFromStage(event.stageX, event.stageY); mapPoint.spatialReference = ...
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Limit Geocode results based on application extent?

I am creating an Esri Flex API application (not the viewer), and have been creating a tool to use the World Places Locator. For now, I am just zooming to the top scoring candidate returned. If you ...
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Does the ArcGIS Flex API simplify polygons by default?

I have a feature access map service that I use on an ArcGIS Flex web application. Some polygons published by the feature service, seem to be "simplified" by the Flex API before they are drawn on the ...
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Why do objects disappear when I zoom on a dynamic map service?

I have a dynamic web map service that contains some point objects. When I zoom in and out, some of the point object disappear and reappear randomly. The map service is dynamic, no cache has been ...
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Help required in grouping composite symbols in ESRI Flex Viewer

I want to group multiple composite symbols so that I can move them as one unit on map. Is there any container to hold multiple composite symbols? As Composite Symbol is Array of other symbols, I want ...
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ESRI Flex API - ImageSnaphot After Batch Layer Update

I am having some difficulties in getting the output of an ImageSnapshot of my application's map to accurately show the current state of the layers. For reasons I won't go into here, for my particular ...
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ArcGIS GeoRSS widget source code not recognizing com.esri.ags.portal package import

For some reason while attempting to import the com.esri.ags.portal.*, despite having the library imported in flex builder, it keeps on giving the error "import cannot be found." The strange thing is ...
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Filtering a Feature Class in using ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer

I'm using the following code in Flex to display all the features in a Feature Class defined in the "Data Layer". var dataLayer:ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer= map.getLayer("Data Layers") as ...