Client Actions Spatial Identify

Provides a means of displaying attribute information relating to all of the entities that a user selects when clicking on the map.

Compared to the standard Identify action the Spatial Identify doesn't use the active entity as the source for the entities to display information about, but instead searches through every entity to find any that intersect the shape drawn by the user. Which means of course that it can take longer to display its information than the regular Identify action.

The Spatial Identify action always displays its information in a popup window.

ID

com.cohga.html.client.map.spatialIdentify

Sub-tags

Name	Type	Cardinality	Default	Description
label	String	0..1		Label to display in button, default 'Spatial Identify'
defaultEntity	String	0..1		The id of the entity to be displayed the first time the tool is used. This is more of a suggestion, if there are no entities of that type where the user clicks then a different entity will be the one displayed on first use.
entity	entity	0..n		Optional list of entities to refine/sort the entity list
useVisibleEntities	Boolean	0..1	false	As of 2.5.22 rather than specify the entities that are to be used, the tool can look up the visible entities configured in the toc. You must add the entity attribute to each layer in the toc for this function to work.
windowTitle	String	0..1	"Spatial Identify"	The title of the popup window
windowWidth	Integer	0..1	800	The width of the popup window
windowHeight	Integer	0..1	500	The height of the popup window
highlight	highlight	0..1		Styling to apply to the highlighted entity
entityListWidth	Integer	0..1	220	the initial width of the entity list
entityListWidthMin	Integer	0..1	175	the minimum width of the entity list
entityListWidthMax	Integer	0..1	400	the maximum width of the entity list

Entity

Name	Type	Required	Description
id	string	yes	The unique entity id for this entity
minScale	number	no	Min zoom scale for this entity to be reported for
maxScale	number	no	Max zoom scale for this entity to be reported for
isDefault	boolean	no	Set this entity as the default

Highlight

Name	Type	Description
vector	vector	The styling for polygon and line based entities
marker	marker	The styling for point based entities

Vector

Name	Type	Description
strokeColor	string	The colour for the outline
strokeOpacity	float	The opacity for the outline
strokeWidth	integer	The width of the outline
fillColor	string	The colour of the fill
fillOpacity	float	The opacity of the fill

Marker

Name	Type	Description
icon	string	A URL pointing to the icon to use
width	int	The width of the icon
height	int	The height of the icon
offsetx	int	The x offset for the hotspot within the icon
offsety	int	The y offset for the hotspot within the icon

See Client Views Data for other i18n options and Common grid panel configuration options for other grid related options

Example

Default with labelled button

<item action="com.cohga.html.client.map.spatialIdentify">
        <label>Identify</label>
</item>

Change the default entity

<item action="com.cohga.html.client.map.spatialIdentify" defaultEntity="roads">
        <label>Identify</label>
</item>

Refine and alter the entities

<item action="com.cohga.html.client.map.spatialIdentify">
        <entity id="property" maxScale="12000"/>
        <entity id="road" isDefault="true"/>
        <entity id="suburb" minScale="25000"/>
</item>

Note that prior to Weave 2.5.18 there is a bug that stopped the following example from working, and from 2.5.18 on-ward the highlight section can be added to the map view anyway which allows it to be set once and applied to all the tools that highlight an entity so it doesn't need to be set for each tool individually.

Changing the highlight styles

<item action="com.cohga.html.client.map.spatialIdentify">
        <highlight>
                <marker>
                        <icon>resources/images/markers/w-marker-red.png</icon>
                        <width>24</width>
                        <height>30</height>
                        <offsetx>-8</offsetx>
                        <offsety>-28</offsety>
                </marker>
                <vector>
                        <strokeWidth>3</strokeWidth>
                        <strokeColor xsd:type="xsd:string">#d27316</strokeColor>
                        <strokeOpacity>0.75</strokeOpacity>
                        <fillColor>red</fillColor>
                        <fillOpacity>0.25</fillOpacity>
                </vector>
        </highlight>
</item>

You can also change the tool which is used when identifying features on the map. By default the tool used is a circle. Valid options are

DragCircle (default)
DragRectangle
Polyline
Polygon
Point

e.g. to change the tool to a DragRectangle

Changing the map action

<item action="com.cohga.html.client.map.spatialIdentify">
        <mapAction>DragRectangle</mapAction>
</item>

As of 2.5.22 you can let the toc drive the layers that will be interrogated when using the spatial identify tool.

Changing the map action

<item action="com.cohga.html.client.map.spatialIdentify">
		<useVisibleEntities>true</useVisibleEntities> 
</item>