Latest Contributions by DouglasGennetten

‎02-05-2015

In the online documentation, guidance is given regarding widgets using a shared 3rd party libraries (Use other JavaScript libraries—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS | ArcGIS ). What is the deployment story for such a situation? Presumably, this is also the pattern that should be used for any shared code we wish to refactor out of our widgets—assuming it can be deployed? It appears that some of the 7 or so deployment options Julie Powell‌ previously posted, would not support this. It would be nice if the dependencies expressed by one's widget would cause esri's machinery to include those dependencies in the bits that it vacuums up from your disk and redistribute when and wherever the apps gets deployed. Is there an official position from esri on this?

‎01-23-2015

What I have found works best is this process: 1) make code changes (directly in stemapp/widgets/mywidget) 2) delete widget in app, save. 3) F5 refresh browser 4) Re-add widget. On annoyance I've had, when pulling a widget from source control into stemapp, if I don't first shut down the server, that widget gets added to the widget picker a bunch of times, and seems to stay that way. To remove the extras, I've done a full wab install replacement. There's got to be a much better way, I presume?

‎01-13-2015

Yes. I verified that was correct. With the new 1.0 build, we've not been able to get WAB to run at all on our corporate-domain machines. And our PM's are quite unhappy with the current deployment story, so we've been a bit frustrated.

‎01-10-2015

I had all but a style.css in setting. Could that be it? Now, I've installed wab 1.0 and cant even get a new simple widget recognized. Following the instructions for copying CustomWidgetTemplate doesn't seem to work as before. Copying and renaming a simple existing widget (like About) doesn't seem to work either. What, exactly, must be changed in a copy of CustomWidgetTemplate or About--besides the folder name and widget name--to get them recognized as a new widget? The new widget appears to get recognized by the server, but does not show in the widget picker.

‎01-06-2015

What is the bare minimum required to get a functioning settings UI integrated? I create a base setting.js, setting.html and config.json with a single simple setting and I consistently get a widget load error, with nothing helpful logged.

‎12-22-2014

The installed help (/docs) still requires Firefox.

‎12-19-2014

After overcoming the slight disbelief that one still has to download firefox to read the (largely unchanged) help files, I've proceeded an attempt to launch 1.0. I'm stuck at "Provide App ID for Web App Builder" where you have to "manually register the Web AppBuilder in you portal [sic]". In the "Tip" section, I'm told the vital piece of missing information: "During Web AppBuilder registration, you may input http://[yourmachinename]:3344/webappbuilder as URL of the app item." I do this, and the page comes back unchanged with the exception of a new red border around the App ID input box. No errors. No helpful messages. What am I missing?

‎12-08-2014

There is a error in the manifest.json file for the CustomWidgetTemplate. The 2D and 3D properties have boolean values that are wrapped in qoutes. Remove the qoutes from around the true/false values and it will work fine. That was it. Thanks.

‎12-08-2014

Yes, the folder name is unique. Once, I think I may have caused this, and other havoc, by changing "name" in manifest.json from "MyWidget" to "My Widget".

‎12-08-2014

I've successfully created and installed several widgets but still remain confused as to exactly what is needed for a new widget. Sometimes, I see a newly created widget show up multiple times in WABs widget chooser. What causes that? In the help file, creating the new "MyWidge" in stemapp/widgest/samplewidgests requires editing config-demo.json to test. This is automated normally, right? Just now, when creating a new widget from CustomWidgetTemplate folder, and placing it up on level in \widgets\, I see it recognized in the server log, but it isn't showing up at all in the WAB widget chooser. What can cause this? It's worked before. ...wishing the documentation were more complete...

‎12-01-2014

I recall someone posting a streetview widget but I cannot seem to find it now? Is there a place (or is there going to be a place) where user-generated widgets are shared?

‎10-29-2014

I have a large CSV file of time-stamped updates from several hundred geo-referenced stations which I would like to convert to a time-aware layer. One csv file has the station ID's and their respective lat/longs. The second, very large csv file contains the stream of updates, showing station ID and date/time of the update. I would like to create a web-based experience where one can slide through time, highlighting the stations when they are updated, and symbolizing faulty stations (no updates) with a second symbol indicating warning (no update for x amount of time), then a third symbol for fail (no update for a larger, y amount of time). Ultimately, I would like to create a WAB or JS-API version, somewhat like this sample: Arroyo Field Production by Time I'm still quite new to ArcGIS Desktop. What are the basic steps, start to finish, that I need to follow? Thanks!

‎10-15-2014

Where can I find some basic, instructional, custom widget samples to help new widget developers get a jump start?

‎08-26-2014

Ever since being moved to a new corporate domain, I've not been able to get the required Esri Portal Login to work (http 400). There's a small chance it could be a local IT problem (we have more than our fair share). However, I can sign into the portal directly just fine (ourname.maps.ArcGIS.com). I'm wondering if there's something else I should be checking/fixing. Here is the (redacted) URL that is causing the error: https://{ourpage}.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/oauth2/authorize?client_id=2ehad2PpbrGp5utt&response_type=token&state=%7B%22portalUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2F{ourpage}.maps.arcgis.com%22%7D&expiration=20160&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2F{my pc's url}%3A3344%2Fwebappbuilder%2F%3Faction%3Dsignin Thanks

‎05-20-2013

Disappointed to discover the only guage/graph in the api is a half-circle guage which is very pixel-wasteful. (http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=102) How about putting in a simple, powerful bullet graph in the future? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_graph)

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Code shared between widgets.

Re: How to "refresh" a widget's code while editing it

Re: Settings config and UI

Re: Settings config and UI

Settings config and UI

Re: Migration Migraine

Migration Migraine

Re: Widget Creation/Install confusion

Re: Widget Creation/Install confusion

Widget Creation/Install confusion

Streetview Widget?

Newbie question: Going from CSV to Time-aware layer.

Basic Custom Widget Samples

Cant log in to AWAB via *.maps.arcgis.com

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