Monday, August 20, 2007 11:56 AM -
ArcGIS-Explorer-Team
New Result View Properties
With the latest release of Explorer (Build 410) you may have noticed some changes in the behavior of results. Results can be used for many things, including navigation or as inputs to another task. You can zoom to a result by double-clicking it, and new in Build 410 is an automatic zoom feature. For example, whenever you use the Find Address or Find Place tasks, you'll be zoomed to the result's default view automatically.
A new feature in this release is the ability to control the view property of each result. You can change the default view by zooming in or out, panning, or adjusting its tilt. The view property persists when you save your map or export a result, making it handy for creating bookmarks, or highlighting some geographic aspect about your result's location.
Here we've used the Find Address task to locate ESRI in Redlands, California. Explorer has automatically zoomed to the the result's default view, shown here:

To change this view, first pan, zoom, and tilt to the desired perspective. Then right-click the result to open its context menu and choose Properties....

In the View Properties dialog box choose Location and click View. You'll see the view properties, including a camera. Click the camera to capture the current view snapshot, and store it as a property of the result.

Now whenever you double-click the result (or right-click and choose zoom), the view you just saved will be the default view.
