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Add Screening Tool to Experience Builder

SZastre

The Screening tool and functionality within WebApp Builder is a core functionality used within our organization's apps. User rely on it to make informed business decisions and the report summary is great for including in an application or file.

Without this tool or similar functionality within Experience Builder, it is currently preventing us from migrating to the Experience Builder apps. I'm afraid that without the tool and functionality, many users will abandon the apps. Please consider adding this tool and asap because I would love to migrate to our apps to Experience Builder and take advantage of group layers!

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jcokin1

Thank you @JasonFuller and everyone else on this thread.

👇

I completely agree with the points raised here. The Near Me widget is not a true replacement for the Screening Tool, especially for organizations that rely on its reporting workflow, summarized outputs, and structured decision support functionality.

For many of us, the Screening Tool was/is a critical component in Web AppBuilder, and without a full 1:1 rebuild of its capabilities in Experience Builder (EB), it remains difficult to migrate apps. Near Me covers only a small portion of what screening provides.

I strongly support prioritizing a complete Screening tool in Experience Builder so we can move forward without losing essential functionality.

JasonFuller

ESRI should just look at the Screening tool on WAB and just copy it exactly into Experience Builder. Nobody would be unhappy about it. The Screening tool was one of the most useful tools in WAB and I have had so many issues trying to recreate it with the Near Me widget in EB and all the other hoops you need to jump through to link to it for it work as stated above.

Also, please add ability to nest pop up in the side bar without using the Feature Info widget or some workaround in EB dev edition.

AndresEcheverri

I tested the Experience Builder DE v1.19 and doesn't have that problem. The Near Me widget is able to run the proximity analysis with 52 layers (mix of Map and Feature Services). However, the custom template report doesn't work properly when called from the Print widget. I end up working with the default print service which doesn't allow you to change how the field names are going to be printed in the report, but at least I can generate a report. Hopefully Esri fixes all those issues.

AndresEcheverri

Yes, it was replaced with quite possibly the most painfully cumbersome workflow anyone could have come up with. You have to slog through a pile of manual steps: first, build a custom print layout layer by layer, then publish it as a tool. After that, you’re forced to configure the Near Me widget and re-add Analysis for every single layer, again and again, always selecting the proximity option. Then you add the Print widget—only to repeat the entire configuration process yet again just to make it match the Near Me output with your published report.

And after all that exhausting, repetitive setup, the application still doesn’t work because the Near Me widget is riddled with bugs. So, realistically, there is no proper replacement yet. It’s incredibly disappointing.

BUG-000163744: Near Me very slow with polygons

BUG-000172264: Near Me spins forever when Map Service layers are included in analysis (it might be fixed for AGOL, but ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 still have it).

JoeWard

@Jon_Tait @This has been replaced with the NearMe widget. Below is a link to a blog that may help you out. You can even created a custom print layout in Pro to be used as a print template for the Near Me report. Although I’m not crazy with how that process works or the results so I just use the default.
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/experience-builder/sustainable-development/recreating-the-screening-widget-workflow

Jon_Tait

Any update (Nov 2025) on ESRI's progress in replicating the Screening tool in Experience Builder? We use this widget for a lot of Webapp applications and need it to be a part of EB before we migrate. Without being able to export the output into some sort of PDF report with the map itself is a real problem for us. The Near Me widget, as it currently stands, just isn't sufficient.

bcgeogirl1

My organization relies on the print out of conflicts that this widget produces automatically for all the selected layers. I had to make some changes on my map and when i went to update the widget, the system would not allow me to push ok to update the changes to the widget. The tool has also stopped working.

SteveMarkovick

We’ve also relied heavily on the Screening tool in Web AppBuilder for quick reports and spatial analysis summaries. Its absence in Experience Builder is a real barrier to migration for our team. While the Near Me widget offers partial functionality, we still need true reporting features. Phonexa helped us bridge some data gaps in the meantime, but native support would be ideal.

AnnieD_WLP

I'm coming here to see if ESRI made any progress on this.

I accidently clicked "save" to my existing Web Builder App which has the Screening tool, it stopped working. Beware!!! Wish this widget is implemented in Experience Builder before phase out Web App Builder.

Print to pdf in a report format in Screening is critical for us to migrate!!!

JoeWard

This is incredibly frustrating. I have to pause yet another project because the full functionality of one of the most valuable tools is not there. At this stage of the game we may not migrate until absolutely required... like everything no longer works required. Its bad enough the the other main tools we use (Grid Reference Graphic, Emergency Response Guide, and the Threat Analysis) are in the "Not planned" category.

AzizaParveen1

Hello @AndreaB_

Yes please visit this community post https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-blog/generating-report-from-near-me-in-experience/ba-p/1486300 for the update.

AndreaB_

Hi all -

Is there any update on this?

"We are planning to publish migrating workflow of Screening widget in Near Me in early May, keep an an eye on the community posts for the blog"

Thanks

bcgeogirl1

you can do multiple layers at once, you just have to set them all up individually in the application. you do this by clicking on the map under analysis settings and then in the column that comes up keep hitting add analysis for each layer you want to use in the app.

Jack_Lim

Hi @AzizaParveen1 ,

Correct me if I'm wrong. I noticed that the Near Me widget is not able to analysis multiple layers at once like the Screening widget do. I wonder if I miss configure anything in Near Me, I would like to spatial filter features for all layers within the webmap just like Screening widget.

Also, the Near Me widget doesn't seems available on Portal, does it?

Thanks,

Jack

AzizaParveen1

@GeorginaCutler1 Near Me is replacing the functionalities of Screening widget in Experience Builder, in last update we added functionality to upload your own data and use it for input search area. Also, printing report capability is coming in Enterprise 11.3 release in early May (tentative).

Please give Near Me a try https://doc.arcgis.com/en/experience-builder/latest/configure-widgets/near-me-widget.htm. We are planning to publish migrating workflow of Screening widget in Near Me in early May, keep an an eye on the community posts for the blog.

Thanks

Aziza

GeorginaCutler1

@AnthonyAtkins2 I sure do miss the screening widget for ExB, was probably the most useful tool in the box. What's the latest ESRI?

AnthonyAtkins2

Every so often, I'll pop back in here to see there's a viable solution in ExB for the Screening widget, I'm not surprised that there are none so far. This the only widget I need before I'm able to migrate. 😞

KSter

@KarenStevens it sounds like we're looking for similar capabilities. I still haven't found a solution for downloading results. But the Query widget's interactive draw mode (under "spatial filter") lets you specify a buffer around a drawn shape.

It's not as easy as selecting a feature and getting a buffer around it, and it doesn't let the user change the buffer, but at least it's something. This is in Enterprise 10.9.1.

Hopefully a proper replacement for the Screening Tool is implemented soon.

EDIT with an update: To avoid waiting until the Near Me tool is added to Enterprise, we set up a collaboration between our AGOL and Enterprise Portal organizations. The data and web map are hosted on Portal but the ExB app is built on AGOL, which lets us use the Near Me tool. Connecting Near Me to Search and Selection widgets let us recreate the full functionality of the Screening widget.

KarenStevens

@HeatherEisan or @AzizaParveen1 - am I right that the current Near Me widget only allows for a buffer to be drawn off a single point (in other words, there are no options to draw a study area or upload a zipped shapefile like in the Screening Widget) and that there are also no options to download results as shapefiles? These are two of the most important ways we use the Screening tool, and so far it doesn't look like the Near Me widget has these capabilities.

cpmgisuser

Hi Aziza,
We are also needing the reporting capability for the Near Me Widget.

We cannot migrate our current WAB Screening Widget to Experience Builder until this capability is available.

Thanks and Regards
Steve

Lostmapper

All that was required was to transfer the functionality of the Screening Widget into the Near Me tool. If that can't be accomplished, it's best not to introduce a replacement that doesn't fulfill the existing requirements. It's like having a lighter to start a fire, and now you're handing me two sticks. It's incredibly frustrating.

After three decades of being an ESRI user, I've just established this account today specifically to share my frustration of this singular tool.

-Jason

AmyJade

Reporting functions to the NearMe widget is imperative to our migration from Web App Builder to Experience Builder. We will be testing this and re-confirm compatibility in this forum. Thank you.

AzizaParveen1

Hi @SofiaGidlund,

Adding reporting capability is in our roadmap for Near Me, it should there around 2024 Q2-Q3.

Thanks

Aziza

SofiaGidlund

Much of the settings for the "Screening" widget relates to the report the user will be able to download, without the report aspect "Near Me" is not comparabel. Our users need to be able to download a pdf of the screening and share the pdf with property owners.

AzizaParveen1

Hi @DeanSzumylo, In Experience Builder, unfortunately there is no work around for generating report at this moment, we are waiting on printing service to add reporting capability. Instant app Nearby has capability to print search results in PDF, with an option to to include map. This might be something you can look into as well.

Nearby app documentation: https://doc.arcgis.com/en/instant-apps/latest/create-apps/nearby.htm

AzizaParveen1

Hi @jvenables We will add this functionality eventually in Near Me sometime next year, we will see if we can leverage Add Data widget action to use the added layer as input for Near Me.

DeanSzumylo

@HeatherEisan

Also looking forward to the addition of Reporting functions to the NearMe widget. In the meantime, do you have any examples of work-arounds that allow users to generate reports of features selected by NearMe, so we can migrate apps to Experience Builder before 2024?

jvenables

@HeatherEisan What about choosing layers that have been uploaded into the map to run Near Me against. In WAB you could use the Add Data widget to upload a layer and then run screening tool against it. Will this be available in ExB Near Me?

HeatherEisan

In the ArcGIS Experience Builder 2023 Roadmap Jianxia commented on reporting. She said, Esri is working on bringing the reporting capability to ArcGIS Online. Hopefully, ExB could leverage it in early 2024 once available.

KellieHeney

@HeatherEisandoes the new Near Me widget allow for a pdf export of the results in a report format? From what I am seeing with the near me widget, it allows for a download of intersecting features, but no download of an actual report. I am limited in my testing as my applications do not use hosted feature layers, and that seems to be a prerequisite for downloading results.

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