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Escaping ampersand when using displayFeatur...	Jonathan Cooper	May 10, 2004
Re: Escaping ampersand when using displayFe...	Zac Odom	May 10, 2004
Re: Escaping ampersand when using displayFe...	Jonathan Cooper	May 11, 2004
Re: Escaping ampersand when using displayFe...	Jonathan Cooper	May 11, 2004
Re: Escaping ampersand when using displayFe...	Tyrone Ligon	May 11, 2004
Re: Escaping ampersand when using displayFe...	Zac Odom	May 11, 2004

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Subject	Escaping ampersand when using displayFeatures
Author	Jonathan Cooper
Date	May 10, 2004
Message	Hi, when using a filter you can escape ampersands by using filter.setCheckesc(true). However, when I use the map.displayFeatures(FeatureLayer,whereExpression,zoomToFeature) method it fails if any field in my source layer contains an ampersand. I cannot see any way to escape ampersands when using displayFeatures(). Have I missed something (likely)? Or is it simply not possible to use this method to zoom to and display features if there is a special character (in this case an ampersand) in a field of the selected feature of the source layer. Thanks, Jon

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Subject	Re: Escaping ampersand when using displayFeatures
Author	Zac Odom
Date	May 10, 2004
Message	can you replace it with & ? or /& or something? i am not a java guy but these have worked for me in the past.
	Hope this helps. Zac Odom, CIW, MCP GERMANY

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Subject	Re: Escaping ampersand when using displayFeatures
Author	Jonathan Cooper
Date	May 11, 2004
Message	Hi Zac, Thanks for your suggestion. Yes it is possible for me to replace special characters with their equivalent codes. In fact I did this initially. But this is very inconvenient for me to do as the data are changing frequently and my import routines would have to catch all special characters in all fields before publishing to a map service. In other words I'd have to write my own escape methods - which is just a pain. Unfortunately the displayFeatures() method is 'black boxed' so you can't escape characters on the fly. I think it is just a method (i.e. setCheckesc(boolean)) that is missing. Cheers, Jon

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Subject	Re: Escaping ampersand when using displayFeatures
Author	Jonathan Cooper
Date	May 11, 2004
Message	Here is the best fix I've managed to find so far. The credit goes to Tyrone Ligon on this thread: http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=64&f=1254&t=103647&mc=3#msgid292257 Using this code I can zoom to my feature and use setCheckesc(true) to escape ampersands and other special characters. So I don't have to change my data. Thanks Tyrone, Jon
	Filter queryZoomFilter = new Filter(); String queryZoomWhere = "STABBR_CODE = 'NY'"; queryZoomFilter.setCheckesc(true); queryZoomFilter.setGlobalEnvelope(true); queryZoomFilter.setWhereExpression(queryZoomWhere); queryZoomLyr.setFilterObject(queryZoomFilter); map.getLayers().setGeometry(true); map.refresh(); Envelope theEnv = queryZoomLyr.getRecordset().getEnvelope(0); map.doZoomToExtent(theEnv); map.sendImageRequest(); map.refresh();

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Subject	Re: Escaping ampersand when using displayFeatures
Author	Tyrone Ligon
Date	May 11, 2004
Message	Jon, Happy to be able to give back, considering all the tidbits I've picked up from this forum in order to work around ArcIMS's ideosyncracies.
	Tyrone Ligon

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Subject	Re: Escaping ampersand when using displayFeatures
Author	Zac Odom
Date	May 11, 2004
Message	that would be my approach. just create a function called clean or something and escape out the &, ', etc. i know it is a pain but if you do it in a function then it you'll only have to do it in one place and, eventually, you will get to a place where you will have them all. & and ' are usually the worst offenders.
	Hope this helps. Zac Odom, CIW, MCP GERMANY