What's new in Business Analyst widget for ArcGIS Experience Builder | November 2026

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The November 2026 update of the Business Analyst widget in Experience Builder introduces a new functionality that has been requested by several customers. In the past, the widget only supported running infographics for single feature selection on map. Now you can select up to 10 polygon or point features on map and run comparison infographics, or simply batch export infographics to file (PDF/HTML/Excel).

Follow these steps to take advantage of this new feature:

1. Start with a Map widget and add a web map that contains polygon or point layers that you want to use as inputs for running infographics.
2. Select the Business Analyst widget and notice the new select tool becomes available under settings. Toggle it on and the select tool will be added to the widget. Please note that this feature is only available in Workflow mode and the map must contain a selectable polygon or point layer.
3. Click Live view mode to test this feature. Click the select tool and select up to 10 polygon features on map. A message will be shown when exceeding the limit.
4. The selected features are automatically populated under search step of the widget:
5. Click Next, select any infographics from the list and click Run Infographic. You will get a side by side comparison infographics for the selected study areas as follows:
6. You can assign one of the sites as a benchmark and see how it compares with the other sites:
7. You can also do a similar analysis on point features. Click the select tool and select up to 10 point features from map.
8. The selected features will be populated as input sites under search step. Click Next and define the buffer options.
9. Click Next, select an infographic from the list and run it. You will get a side by side comparison of your analysis sites as follows:
10. The new select tool also allows you to batch export infographics for multiple sites. Open the Customize infographics settings and toggle on Export directly.
11. After selecting your input features from the map, you can then batch export the selected infographics to PDF/HTML/Excel.
12. The individual infographics for the selected features will be automatically downloaded. Use the Estimate credits option before batch exporting infographics for multiple sites.
13. In addition, the Business Analyst widget now works with the Select widget by configuring message action as follows:
14. You can then use the select tool from the Select widget and the selected features will be automatically available in Business Analyst widget.