Route Task Activity

Description:

Find a route between point locations.

Inheritance Hierarchy:

System.Object
  System.Activities.Activity
    System.Activities.NativeActivity
      Geocortex.Workflow.Activities.RouteTask

Function:

This activity helps you solve a routing problem by finding a least-cost path between multiple locations using a network service exposed by the ArcGIS Server REST API. You can route between two or more locations, optionally avoiding barriers, and finding the best sequence and getting driving directions.

In a Workflow:

This activity is useful in any scenario where you need to generate a route or directions, for example, to determine an optimal route to drive, stopping at a set of defined locations along a road network.

Properties:

Name Description

In Arguments

Credentials

The network credentials that are sent to the host and used to authenticate the request.

Custom Parameters

Additional parameters to include in the request.

Disable Client Caching

If true, adds a timestamp parameter (_ts) to the request to prevent it from being loaded from the application's cache.

Proxy Url

The URL to proxy the request through.

Route Closest Facility Parameters

Parameters indicate guidelines that are required when determining what the route is to the closest facility.

Route Parameters

The input parameters for the route task.

Route Service Area Parameters

Parameters indicate guidelines that are required when determining what the service area is of each facility.

Route Service Url

The URL of the ArcGIS Server Route service. For example: http://server/arcgis/rest/services/<serviceName>/NAServer/<layerName>.

Token

The token for accessing a secure ArcGIS Task.

Misc

Display Name

RouteTask

You can change the name of an activity to one that describes what it does. A descriptive name can make a workflow easier to interpret and maintain.

Out Arguments

Result

The route returned by the route task.

Version Information:

Supported from: Geocortex Essentials 3.4.