Report Feature widget

December 2012

The Report Feature widget allows you to select existing or create new features and submit them to a Reviewer workspace. This functionality enables redlining, manual quality control, or volunteered geographic information workflows by allowing an audience without GIS expertise to flag data for review.

Deploying the Report Feature widget

Application Builder provides the simplest way to deploy the Report Feature widget. The following steps detail how to deploy the Report Feature widget to an ArcGIS Viewer for Flex site. You must download the Data Reviewer widgets before following these steps.

Learn more about Application Builder

1. Start ArcGIS Viewer for Flex - Application Builder.
2. Click the Settings link in the upper-right corner of Application Builder.
3. Click Show Advanced Settings.
4. Click Manage Custom Widgets.
5. Click Add on the Manage Custom Widgets dialog box.
6. Navigate to the location of the ReportFeature.zip file, then click Open.
   Tip:

   You must extract the ReportFeature.zip file from the DRReportFeatureWidget.zip archive.

7. Click Close on the Import Custom Widget dialog box.
8. Click Close on the Manage Custom Widgets dialog box.
9. Click the My Applications link in the upper-left corner of Application Builder.
10. Double-click your application in the Application Name field.
11. Click the Widgets tab.
12. Click Report Feature in the Catalog area.
13. Click Include.
14. In the Widget Settings area, change the <drsUrl> tag to point to your ArcGIS Data Reviewer for Server URL: <drsUrl>http://<your server name:6080/arcgis/rest/services/reviewer/MapServer/exts/DataReviewerServer</drsUrl>.
15. Click OK.
16. Click Save.

Working with the Report Feature widget

The Report Feature widget works in two modes: Select and Draw. Select allows you to select an existing feature in an ArcGIS Server dynamic layer and submit it for review to a Reviewer workspace. Draw allows you to digitize a new point, line, or polygon feature and submit it for review to a Reviewer workspace. Both modes allow you to add information to the record before you submit it to a Reviewer workspace.

Select mode

1. In your ArcGIS Viewer for Flex web application, click the Report Feature widget button on the toolbar at the top of the web page.
2. Pan and zoom to a dynamic layer feature you want to submit to your Reviewer workspace.
3. Click Select.
4. Click a layer in the Choose a Layer list.
   Note:

   If the Choose a Layer list displays no layers, use Application Builder to add a dynamic layer to your application.

5. Click the feature you want to submit. The Report Feature widget collapses and a details dialog box appears.
6. Click the Review Status drop-down arrow and choose a status.
7. Type any descriptive information you would like to include with this feature in the Notes field.
8. Click the Severity drop-down arrow and choose a severity value for this feature. Severities range from 1 (high) to 5 (low).
9. Type your name in the Reported By text box.
10. Click Report. The details dialog box closes and the Report Feature widget expands to normal size.

    When the commit operation finishes, a message appears and displays Report Received.

11. Click OK.

Draw mode

1. In your ArcGIS Viewer for Flex web application, click the Report Feature widget button on the toolbar at the top of the web page.
2. Pan and zoom to an area in which you want to digitize a new feature.
3. Click Draw.
4. Click the Choose a Layer drop-down arrow and click a layer name.
   Note:

   You will not create a new feature in this layer. The feature submitted to the Reviewer workspace will use this layer name as its origin table.

5. Click one of the drawing tools at the bottom of the widget and digitize a shape on the map. Once you have finished your shape, a details dialog box appears.
6. Click the Review Status drop-down arrow and choose a status.
7. Type in any descriptive information to include with this feature in the Notes field.
8. Click the Severity drop-down arrow and choose a severity value for this feature. Severities range from 1 (high) to 5 (low).
9. Type your name in the Reported By text box.
10. Click Report. The details dialog box closes and the Report Feature widget expands to normal size.

    When the commit operation finishes, a message appears and displays Report Received.

11. Click OK.