Find

Find Features

The Web mapping application may allow you to search and find features of interest to you. The searching tools that are available will depend on how your application is configured.

Find Task

The website may enable you to search one or more layers for text that you enter, to find an address, or to search for places using a Web database. The administrator of the website determines the types of searches available.

Each Web Application may have one or many Find Tasks.

A Single Find Task.

A Multiple Find Task. By hovering over Find Features a context menu will expand showing the features that can be searched.

1. The Find task can be displayed by clicking its name in the menu area.
2. The Find task opens in a new dialog window within the mapping application. An example of a possible tasks is shown below. This dialog window may not be moved or collapsed. However, it may be closed by clicking the button.
   
   
3. Clicking on the button will open a drop down list of features to query.
   
4. Select a feature from the list by clicking on it with your mouse.
5. Click the dialog submit button (Find) to start the search.
6. The Results section expands in the Console to display results of the search (if it does not expand automatically, click the down-arrow in the Results section to display it). The text searched for displays in the results item.
7. If features are found, a plus button appears next to the results item. Click the plus button to expand and explore the results. The example below shows one possible result of a search using Find.
   
   
    
8. The results display one or more layers where features are found. Click the plus button next to a layer to display features found. For more details on using the Results window, see Using Results.