Map widget search bar does not respect web map search hint text

Question

In the settings of a web map, you can specify layers to search, and the default search hint text.

When I add a web map widget to a blank EB project, a search button is enabled by default.  When you click the search button and open the search bar, the hint text is the generic "Find address or place".  It does not seem to respect the "Hint text" setting of the web map item.

Is this a bug?

Tiffany_Chau · Answer

Right, this search bar customizable is only possible with the Search widget. I agree - it is a shame that so many things embedded in the XBLD Map widget aren't customizable.

KevinMayall_COH · Answer

I'm actually not using a separate Search widget, since the Map widget already has one embedded within it.  It's just a shame that is does not adopt the web map's settings, nor does it have its own customization in the Map widget settings.

Tiffany_Chau · Answer

Hi Kevin -

The short answer is that there are two separate Hint sections. Instead of changing the Hint text in the "General search options", you need to change the Hint text for whichever layer or locator you are using. That is how you will get the text to show up.
In the screenshot below, you want to change the text in the Blue circle rather than the Red circle. The Blue circle is the text that will actually display within the search bar.
To get to the Blue circle, you need to create a search bar widget (which I assume you have done already) and add a new search source (which I assume you have done already as well). Then, you need to click on that search source you had selected (in this screenshot, the search source is a locator called NJ Geocode). Once you click on that, you will be able to customize your hint text.

Here is the solution explained in depth: https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/problem-the-search-hint-text-configured-in-web-maps-doe-000030711

-Tiffany