Cory Hines GIS Analyst Linn County, Iowa Flex…Your Web Maps Up! Cory Hines GIS Analyst Linn County, Iowa

Overview What is Flex? Stuff you’ll need Design/Setup strategies Starting with the base Sample Viewer Basics of Adobe Flex Builder Making the Sample Viewer your own Things to consider Other Flex sites Q/A

What is Flex? Development Env from Adobe How does it relate to the API’s? What other options do I have?

Stuff you’ll need ArcGIS Server Ent. Std. – of course! Adobe Flex Builder Std. ($250)* Can change about 10% of SFV w/out FB Flash Player ArcGIS Server Flex API** Sample Flex Builder Forums!*** Helpful, but not required Paint.NET, Color Detector, Notepad ++, Firebug *Now Flash Builder 4. need Prof Ed if you want to do charts and other high end programming **Not required if starting with the SFV ***Don’t reinvent the wheel, someone may have already done what you want to

Design/Setup Strategies Program & File locations AGS Services – geometry service 2 Methods Copy SFV release into Inetpub dir Import from archive or src folder

Starting with Sample Viewer ESRI SFV – first method Edit config.xml file Change initial & full extent Change AGS services Title, Logo, etc. Adobe Flex not required

Sample Viewer con’t. Next edit xml’s assoc. w/widgets src\com\esri\solutions\flexviewer\widgets

“Demo” Adding pre-built SFV into Inetpub

1st Method Capabilities/Limits Change data sources Change color scheme/theme Only background & icons Add/remove functionality Only if the widgets are “plug and play”

Starting with Sample Viewer ESRI SFV – second method Import archive or src folder into Flex

Sample Viewer con’t. Edit source code (mxml, as, css) Rebuild/export new application

Demo Importing src file SFV into Flex

2nd Method Capabilities/Limits Almost Anything! Linn County, Iowa Dubuque County, Iowa Johnson County, Iowa Hamilton County, Indiana Calhoun County, Alabama ESRI Live User Sites

Flex Builder Basics Project exists within a folder named src Library (api’s) exist in the libs folder Bin-release contains the files that get copied to Inetpub Bin-debug contains the files to test app from Flex

Making the SFV your own Old Forums, New Forums Code Gallery Learn Flex some are “plug and play” Learn Flex Find others willing to share :-]

Things to consider ArcGIS Server 10 Flex API Adobe Flex Builder is now Flash Builder at Ver. 4 Upgrades/3rd party API’s User community

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