Display a popup information box on iShare GIS

Owned by Kim Stimpson
Last updated: 03 Feb, 2022
3 min read

Overview

This is a neat way of sending a message to users when iShare GIS is first loaded in the browser. This can be useful for maintenance messages such as:

  • Application downtime
  • Network interruption

The popup can either contain plain text or text with a link to a URL e.g.

Remember you are editing the main .aspx page for the iShare GIS application front-end and any typos or incorrect syntax etc. will cause the entire application to fail. We would suggest that, if you have a test instance of iShare GIS, that you first make the change here.

Step-by-step guide

If you would like help from Astun in adding this feature then this can be done using call off time.

  • Download the Flash.js library folder from here https://betaweb.github.io/flashjs/ and click the download button as depicted in the image below:


    The downloaded folder will have the name flashjs-master 


  • Unzip the folder, rename it as flashjs for easier integration and save it to D:\Astun\iShareGIS\TEST\WebApps\Web\custom\js and to D:\Astun\iShareGIS\TEST\WebApps\Web\custom\css as shown below:





  • Make a copy of your iShareGIS.aspx page (in case you need to roll back to the original version).
  • Open your iShareGIS.aspx in a text editor such as Notepad++ (usually found D:\Astun\iShareGIS\TEST\WebApps\Web\iShareGIS.aspx replacing TEST with LIVE where applicable).

  • Load the CSS file of the Flash library inside the <head> section of the iShareGIS.aspx by adding the following line, as shown in the following screen shot.

  • Inside the <style> element of the HTML code add one more CSS property as shown in the following screen shot:

  • Load the JS file of the Flash library inside the <head> section of the iShareGIS.aspx by adding the following line

  • Find the section where the page is loaded e.g.
  • Copy the following and paste it into the page where we have added the "Add the window.FlashMessage.info in here" comment above.
  • So you should end up with something like this.
  • The final outcome will be something similar to this where you can see the message at the top right of the map:
  • We would suggest that you leave the appear_delay and progress as the defaults but you can adjust the timeout if you wish to display the message for a longer or shorter amount of time.

  • If you wish to turn off this functionality you just need to comment out the window.FlashMessage.info section you added and then it will be there if you need it again e.g.