Date Search (Flex Widget) - Cannot zoom to record...help!

[JesseHopkins]

Hey everyone,

I recently found a widget that Robert S. had created to search a layer on date ranges, however I am having issues trying to get the zoom and ping functionality working.  I'm not the most adept in the Flex department, however I managed to upgrade the code and make the necessary changes to get it working (pre 4.0 sdk).  That being said, this thing is archaic, and there may be a decent amount of code that is just not needed.  Anyways,I attached a few images that may help show the basic functionality of the widget; on the second image I circled the buttons that are not functioning correctly.  Also attached is the .mxml.

Thanks,

Jesse

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Jesse,

  From the looks of your code the zoomAndHighlight portion has been commented out!

            /*private function zoomAndHighlight(infoData:Object):void //does not work
            {
                //showHighlight(infoData);
                setMapExtent(infoData, graphicsLayer.graphicProvider as Array); 
            }*/    
            
            private function zoomToFeature(event:AppEvent):void //does not work
            {
                // Check to see if the event was fired by results from this widget
                if (!event.data.widget || event.data.widget.toString() != widgetTitle) return;
                
                if (recAC && recAC.length > 0)
                {
                    var index:Number = recAC.getItemIndex(event.data);
                    if (index != accordion.selectedIndex)
                    {
                        accordion.selectedIndex = index;
                        
                        //set the container scrollbar to show all of this record
                        var header:mx.controls.Button = accordion.getHeaderAt(index);
                        var headerHeight:Number = header.height;
                        resultsViewport.verticalScrollPosition = accordion.y + accordion.selectedChild.y - headerHeight;
                    }
                }
                //zoomAndHighlight(event.data);
            }

[JesseHopkins]

Hi Robert,

Ha yeah I forgot to un-comment that out, however, even with that it still doesn't work properly. It seems that nothing on the results tab (top right corner - circled in second image) wants to work.

Thanks,

Jesse

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Does just clicking on the result zoom? Can you attach the com.esri.viewer.components.RecordDataB for me to look at?

[JesseHopkins]

No, unfortunately clicking on the record does not zoom either.  That's pretty much all I need too.  Anyways, attached is the RecordDataB.mxml file.

Thanks,

Jesse

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Jesse,

   It is hard to just jump into someones code and diagnose the issue. I think I need the com.esri.viewer.components.HeaderRenderer too.

[JesseHopkins]

Robert,

I understand completely.  If anything, I'm happy to know that there isn't a glaring error from a stupid mistake!  I just went ahead and attached the src folder minus images/assets.  Again, I appreciate you taking a look at this.

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Jesse,

   Have you done this work or are you just taking over?

Have you run the app in debug mode and put a break point in the zoomToFeature function to see if it ever gets called and if it does does the event.data.widget exist?

[JesseHopkins]

Robert,

Most of this work was done by Larry Stout, but me and my predecessor have done a decent amount of customization on the widgets. 

I'm unsure on what the previous version of this Date Search widget was, but I had to make a few changes to get it working with our current version of the Flex API - 2.3.1.  I'm aware that this outdated, however I am working on a JS site, and have not been granted privileges to upgrade the Flex app.

Unfortunately I have not run the app in debugger mode, there are always a whole host of issues when trying to run it. I'll try to get this working.

Thanks,

Jesse