Add Graph Indicators (Network, Force Directed)

CoffeeforClosers — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:04:05 GMT

Please add a new graph visualization type to the ArcGIS Dashboard product. This visualization type may be or network or force directed. But now that ESRI has finally embraced graph data vis-a-vis its Enterprise item data model, it should support displaying graph data in the best manner possible.

Itemgraph module in Python API allowing for dependency graphs to be created
https://developers.arcgis.com/python/latest/api-reference/arcgis.apps.itemgraph.html

Blog post by ESRI that provides sample notebooks and well as content templates for dependency graph mapping in Dashboards.

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/?post_type=blog&p=2961468&preview=true

The Problem:

With these examples ESRI has shown progress. But forcing the dependency graph into a tabular indicator model as it does in the blog post and resulting content provides a poor user experience.

Rather than this:

I'd like to see this:

Or this

Re: Add Graph Indicators (Network, Force Directed)

CoffeeforClosers — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:33:56 GMT

Here's a small repo that I put together to explore using the item relationship data that's now (more easily) available.

https://github.com/sethlewis/arcgis-graph-cli

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