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

2. 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

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

4. 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

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

6. 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

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

8. “Demo”
Adding pre-built SFV into Inetpub

9. 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”

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

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

12. Demo
Importing src file SFV into Flex

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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 :-]

16. 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

17. Comments, ?’s, Discussion