Experienced Builder - Editing Data

There is the edit widget (beta) but it's not production ready and the table widget which sort of has editing capabilities but the implementation is a complete joke. It has to be one of the biggest esri failures to date, being pushed to the new map viewer which isn't backwards compatible with WAB but to then not have feature basic parity in EB (how is editing not a day 1 release?) is just so short sighted. Esri needs to focus on making core functionality actually work instead of going after the new shiny things that never get properly implemented. I hate to say it, but you're probably right in abandoning EB.

Matthew_Williams

I just stopped using Experience Builder. I was one of the early adopters but it was just so terrible when they released it that it wasn't worth getting started on something, just to realize they left out something critical in their rush to get it to market.

Is there still not editing capability?

Couldn't agree more, it's a complete dumpster fire. They just don't listen to their users.

The editing experience is horrible, I wouldn't put it in front of users who have come from google sheets etc. That kind of hostile user experience is how you get people hating your apps. Did they have an intern code this widget? It's quite frankly embarrassing for all involved.

BrittanyBurson

Hi @EricKriener

Completely agree and my comment was made prior to discovering this. We do not use the table widget as is because of this refresh behavior.

You can comment on this Idea here. I also logged an enhancement request with Esri regarding this six months ago, #ENH-000142026 though the severity is marked as "low".

EricKriener

I wouldn't say it "works really well" when the table completely resets after each cell edit and you need to go searching and scrolling around for where you were at to make the next edit.

How exactly is this basic functionality not available? This is an absolute requirement for almost every customer - the fact that we are being pushed to the new maps without editing capability in experience builder is a huge oversight by esri. Lot's of talk of doing "research" into how to implement this, which is quite surprising that esri clearly doesn't understand it's customers. This needs to be ready yesterday, provide an update with specific timelines for when this will be available - this is unacceptable.

I guess I'll have to come back next year if I remember when hopefully the widgets I need will have been implemented.

In the meanwhile, on to other things.

KeithGerhartz1

Patiently waiting for editor widget in Experience Builder. I wish ESRI would publish information about design and ask for comment instead of just giving us what they think we want. The whole of the user community knows a lot more about what is needed than most of the developers and project managers - some being better than others.

BrittanyBurson

It now seems possible to edit within the Table widget, and it works really well. It would be great next to be able to add and delete features/records... for the table itself, I'm looking for a "add new row" type functionality to add a new record to a non-spatial, related or unrelated table. Is this on the horizon, or will updates in the table be limited to Update only?

DavidMartinez

I hope that editing capabilities for related tables will be coming soon?

JacquieKovarik

I am attempting this same thing - have you been able to find a successful solution?

Kara, are you able to show the GlobalID in your Survey123 form, so that you can edit an existing feature?

I had difficulties getting the service to publish the way I wanted, but I followed a few articles:

Took me a couple of tries but I eventually got it to publish successfully - still working on the forms because I am actually splitting up the forms so that I will have two forms feeding into one feature service (one for updating existing features and one for inspections and attachments)

MichaelMirobelli

From what a co-worker told me, editing is not available in the Table (Beta) widget - but will be available in the full version of the widget that will be released with 1.4.

I was able to append to a feature layer using a survey123 form, but not edit existing data.

How did you get editing to work?

I just did this by creating a survey123 form on an exiting feature service and embedding that in my form. Not ideal, but it works!

@Wageningen they just released this months update and it appears editing in table widget will be available.

Wageningen

Ahh.. just finished builing my first experience assuming that I could switch it to edit-mode in the end, did some searching and ended up here. You live, you learn.

I also need the editing capability. Any ETA? It's mostly for the Feature Info widget for the user to edit certain fields.

I tried providing edit functionality using survey123 connected to the layer but I don't think I want to show that.