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You're reading from Building Web and Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications with JavaScript ??? Second Edition Build exciting custom web and mobile GIS applications with the ArcGIS Server API for JavaScript

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787280526

Length 324 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

ArcGIS

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Mark Lewin

Eric Pimpler

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Introduction to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating Maps and Adding Layers

3. Adding Graphics to the Map

4. The Feature Layer

5. Using Widgets and Toolbars

6. Performing Spatial and Attribute Queries

7. Identifying and Finding Features

8. Turning Addresses into Points and Points into Addresses

9. Directions and Routing

10. Geoprocessing Tasks

11. Geometry Operations

12. Integration with ArcGIS Online

13. Creating Mobile Applications

14. Looking Ahead - Version 4 of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript

Using FindTask to access feature attributes

You can use FindTask to search a map service exposed by the ArcGIS Server REST API for a string value. The search can be conducted on a single field of a single layer, on many fields of a layer, or on many fields of many layers. As with the other tasks we've examined, the find operation relies upon complementary objects: FindParameters, FindTask, and FindResult. FindParameters serves as the input parameter object, which FindTask uses to accomplish its work, and FindResult contains the results returned by the task.

FindParameters

FindParameters is used to specify the search criteria for a find operation and includes a searchText property that is the text that will be searched for, along with properties that specify the fields and layers that will be searched. In addition, setting the returnGeometry property to true indicates that you want to return the geometry of the features that matched the find operation and this can be used to highlight the results...