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Adding ArcGIS's editing capabilities

Currently, the food and drinks layer is being fetched as a read-only map service located at the URL: http://arcgismachine:6080/arcgis/rest/services/Bestaurants/MapServer/0. The only difference is that it points to the enterprise geodatabase. You can see the following code in mybestaurants.html which confirms that:

//load the food and drinks layer into an object
lyr_foodanddrinks = new esri.layers.FeatureLayer("http://arcgismachine:6080/arcgis/rest/services/Bestaurants/MapServer/0", { outFields: ["*"] } 
);

We won't be able to edit MapServerlayer, we have to use FeatureServer. We will show how to change this in the next section.

Adding or updating records in a service with ArcGIS JavaScript API is simple. We only need to use the applyEdits method on the FeatureLayer object. This method accepts a record and some parameters for the response; what we are interested in is to insert a record. The following code shows how to prepare a record with three fields for...

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Building Web Applications with ArcGIS

By : Hussein Nasser

Building Web Applications with ArcGIS

By: Hussein Nasser

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Adding ArcGIS's editing capabilities

Building Web Applications with ArcGIS

By : Hussein Nasser

Building Web Applications with ArcGIS

By: Hussein Nasser

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