Simulate a mouse-click inside an ArcGIS Online JavaScript Application

Question

I have a JavasScript application consuming an ArcGIS Online Web Map. I want to open a default popup at a specific coordinate. Is there a way to simulate a mouse-click at that point, or a better alternative?

Answer 1

The map's default infoWindow should actually be an instance of esri/dijit/Popup, so the way to have it behave as if a user has just clicked on a given feature is to call its setFeatures() method.

var point;
var query = new esri.tasks.Query();
// TODO: set query paramters

var deferred = featureLayer.selectFeatures(query,esri.layers.FeatureLayer.SELECTION_NEW);
deferred.then(function(results) {
  // TODO: set point based on geometry of selected feature(s)
  map.infoWindow.setFeatures(results.features);
  map.infoWindow.show(point);
});

See the feature layer with popup sample and the Popup API page for details.

Answer 2

If you're using the Javascript API you can use the show method in the InfoWindowBase class to display a popup at a given XY pair. See https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/jsapi/infowindowbase-amd.html#show