Add attributes to geometry?

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April 25, 2013 02:54

Can attributes be appended to an ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Geometry.Geometry?

I'm curious because I want to be able to use geometries for displaying markup in the map, particularly because I can now extract markup to a shapefile. The problem is that my geometries come from a workflow, so when they are added to the map to be extracted to a shapefile, they don't contain any attributes. :-\

I've built a dataset that writes to a data table which contains the attributes for each geometry I add as a markup, however I  don't know if it's possible for a geometry to contain an attribute, as a collection of graphics can. Since I have to use the geometry namespace in order to create markup, which is used for shapefile exctractions, am I out of luck? Right now, I have it extracting my shapefile without an attribute table and simply ask the user to download an excel table that contains the attributes I write to the datatable. Not exactly ideal.

Hopefully I'm clear enough... 

Thanks!

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  Permanently deleted user

  April 25, 2013 21:27

  It looks like geometry is a member of graphic. Graphics hold both the geometry and attributes. So my answer is probably no.

  So I'll shift my question... How can I display the graphic on the map with its associated attributes? Is there a way? 

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  Permanently deleted user

  April 26, 2013 12:17

  Hi Erik

  so if you have a geometry you can create a graphic and assign your geomtery to it

  ie in an assign task

     theNewGraphic = New Graphic

  theNewGraphic.Geometry = myAlreadySourcedGeometry

  'and assign attributes

  theNewGraphic.Attributes("fielName").Value = "the value of the field"

  'and you can still draw it in the client using:

  External Client Command Activity ,  AddMarkupFeature, theNewGraphic

  or something along those lines

  and extract it using: ExtractGraphicsLayerById

  Just a suggestion since I am not currently at work and able to pre-test my suggestion ;-)  No doubt there may be a couple of missing steps

  Regards

  Ralph

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  Permanently deleted user

  February 28, 2014 07:47

  Hi Ralph,

  is there away to access that attribute value without the extract function ? is it possible to add that field (along with any other attibutes we add in the workflow) to the results pane ?

  Thanks

  Mazen

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