Find Place task

The Find Place task allows a user to type a place name to search for on the map. The application accesses an ArcWeb Service to search for the place name entered by the user, who can then highlight the resulting places on the map.

To configure the Find Place task, you need to provide information about how you want the task to be displayed, how it will connect to ArcWeb Services, the places it will search for, and how the results will be returned.

• On the General tab, you specify the text strings that appear on and around the task panel. Use the Label Text to direct the user what to search for. You can phrase the label text any way you'd like, such as "Enter a place" or "Type the name of a city". Optionally, you can provide more detailed instructions in a Help Tip that will appear when the end user hovers the mouse pointer on the input text box.

• Since the Find Place task uses an ArcWeb Service, you will need to provide the user name and password for an ArcWeb Services account. See the ArcWeb Services home page for information on ArcWeb Services and how to create an account. Applicable ArcWeb Services credit deductions will occur for searches made with the Find Place task.

  On the Settings tab, provide an account name and choose an ArcWeb Service from the list of Place Finder services. You can find more information about these services at the Service Finder page of the ArcWeb Services site.

• Each ArcWeb Service contains a subset of place types that you can search against. You can control which places are searched by adding and removing items from the Available Places and Search These Places lists. You can also choose if you want to search against the exact text entered by the user or search for places that start with the text entered by the user.
• The results of the search will appear in the results window of the application, where the user of the application can make them visible on the map. On the Results tab, you can choose which point symbol to use to display the results on the map and a limit for how many results the search will return. This can prevent your server and application from becoming too busy if a common search term is entered that would return many results. The default maximum number of results is 50.

The Find Place task does not support custom lists of places.