[Geomoose-users] startup service

[Dan Little]

It may solve the problem but I can't promise that I've done a lot of
testing with non-default settings. YMMV.

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
> Dan,
>
>   Now that the startup_service specified in the mapbook or config.js works
> (or at least it should; I'm still having problems getting any of the three
> startup methods to work using yesterday's nightly build), I expect my
> original problem would still exist: the toolbar will be disabled.
>
> I did notice this in the GeoMOOSE doc
> (http://docs.geomoose.org/2.8/docs/configuration.html#configuration):
>
> services.disable_others
>   Toggle whether tools and other tabs should be disabled when starting a
> service.
>
> I wonder if this would solve my problem of having a startup service with no
> user input needed?
>
> Best Regards,
> Brent Fraser
>
> On 3/29/2016 2:10 PM, Dan Little wrote:
>
> The disabling of the toolbar is actually a new usability 'feature.'  One of
> the big struggles that both Jim and Eli found in the UI was the order of
> operations when multiple services were starting at the same time due to the
> 'open' nature of the toolbar operation.  You can see this in operation in
> the current demo when you click the "Search Parcels" tab.  The only way to
> get the toolbar back is to click "cancel" which allows the service to clean
> itself up properly.
>
> If you've got a specific tab that you want displayed all the time it may be
> necessary to write it as a custom-tab extension.  Which in 2.9 is going to
> get a bit easier.
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi devs,
>>
>>   In my task to upgrade my digitizing app, I see a couple of things:
>>
>> 1.  That specifying a startup service in the URL  disables the tools in
>> the toolbar
>>
>> 2.  Specifying a startup service in the mapbook or in config.js doesn't
>> seem to work.  And I can't find any place in the code where startup_service
>> is referenced.
>>
>> So I added a few lines to main.js (at line 73):
>>
>>         var params = GeoMOOSE.getUrlParameters();
>>         if(GeoMOOSE.isDefined(params.call)) {
>>             var service_name = params.call;
>>             delete params.call;
>>             GeoMOOSE.startService(service_name, params, true);
>>         };
>>
>>         /*  --- new: --- */
>>         if(GeoMOOSE.isDefined(CONFIGURATION['startup_service'])) {
>>             var service_name = CONFIGURATION['startup_service'];
>>             GeoMOOSE.startService(service_name, params, true);
>>         }
>>
>> while it does start the service in the config.js, but it has the same
>> effect on the toolbar as specifying "?call=myservice" in the URL (it is
>> disabled).
>>
>>   Is there something special I need to set to enable the toolbar after a
>> startup service?
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> Brent Fraser
>>
>>
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