idea Add Editor Widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

Add Editor Widget

PatrickPanza — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 21:33:28 GMT

Anxious to see a feature editor widget added to Experience Builder to gain parity with WAB. Have done some workarounds with Survey123, but they are clunky, labor intensive on the back end, and work best for existing features. Ideally, a new editor widget similar to the "Smart Editor" but with a more user friendly interface (read: BIG, customizable buttons built from feature templates and/or subtypes) is added to Experience Builder. Something that not only allows for the editing of existing features but for streamlined creation of new features and a form-based/popup-based interface for user attribute input. Perhaps it could receive input from map widgets (e.g. location), and be triggered by other widgets (e.g. buttons).

This would expand the utility of Experience Builder in a huge way.

Re: Add Editor Widget

LanceKirby2 — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 22:39:56 GMT

Great idea! What I gathered from the UC it isn’t on their roadmap for this year. Hopefully within the next two years though. I personally am not a fan of the current edit widget in WAB for editing polygons. I hope they can enhance the user experience for editing that geometry type.

Re: Add Editor Widget

AlixVezina — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 18:23:44 GMT

Hi Lance, thank you for your feedback! Would you have some suggestions on how the experience could be enhanced and examples of what you don't like with the current editing experience?

Re: Add Editor Widget

LanceKirby2 — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 03:11:28 GMT

Sorry for the delayed reply Alix! Please see below.

I would love to see two things. One is that if you could lock the map from panning while splitting a polygon or digitizing a feature. For example, if you click too fast while drawing a feature the map pans rather than adding a vertex. I would also like to see which piece of polygon I am merging two or more polygons into. For example, if I had two adjacent polygons in a parcel fabric that I wanted to merge I would like to select those, select the union function, have a box popup of the two features unique ids (Global Id, Object ID, etc) that I then can choose which one to merge into. It would actually be great if the unique ID could be setup on the backend by the application creator.

The second idea above is similar to the merge tool in ArcGIS Pro. It would also be great if topology rules could be implemented if data was coming from an enterprise geodatabase -> referenced feature service. That's all I have for now!

Re: Add Editor Widget

Kara_Shindle — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:20:06 GMT

Same! I would love to be able to implement this into an experience. Also quite willing to provide any feedback or ideas. Currently working on an experience for Property Management to track their bridges and signs that are inspected and maintained by the county.

Ideally, table-focused with being able to select a bridge and immediately see its attributes and attachments. Attachments include multiple photos and PDF inspection reports. Would love to be able to select a bridge, and immediately be able to see attachments and add / modify / edit them as needed.

Re: Add Editor Widget

PhilLarkin1 — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:44:43 GMT

Would love to see ESRI's editor widget officially rolled into Experience Builder (Dev).

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AndrewBernish__MDOT_ — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:04:01 GMT

Please add the Edit and Smart Editor Widgets to Experience Builder! Experience Builder has the capacity to be so much more immersive and user-friendly than WAB, but these are vital tasks!

Re: Add Editor Widget

PhilLarkin1 — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:09:49 GMT

@AndrewBernish__MDOT_ @PatrickPanza

I watched the ESRI UC session: ArcGIS Online: The Road Ahead yesterday. The roadmap showed the Editor Widget on the 'Long Term' category. Not sure if that means a year, or two, or three?! Would be nice to see it in the near term category. It is a very important widget!

Re: Add Editor Widget

AndrewBernish__MDOT_ — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:10:58 GMT

@PhilLarkin1 Oh no! That's SO disappointing!

Re: Add Editor Widget

PhilLarkin1 — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:14:05 GMT

@AndrewBernish__MDOT_ Yes, especially considering this Idea was published nearly a year ago.

Re: Add Editor Widget

BrendonJoyce1 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:27:53 GMT

@AndrewBernish__MDOT_ This is one of the most important features that should've been in the initial release. I cannot believe it is not available. Since WAB uses the older map viewer, there is no real way to have usable web apps on the new map viewer with the nice enhancements to UI and things like rotating the maps.

This is coming from somebody on Enterprise, so it'd likely be another year after AGOL, but I could still have some use case for using this on AGOL. Very frustrating news indeed.

Re: Add Editor Widget

MichaelTorbett — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:31:12 GMT

Hi,

Is it in the workplan to add additional editing tools to the Editor Widget in Experience Builder? My agency could really use the 'Split', 'Reshape', and 'Merge' tools similar to what's in the Web App Builder Edit Widget.

Foresters in my agency create forest stand type maps and stewardship plan maps for landowners. Those editing tools are needed for those types of maps.

Thanks,

Michael

Re: Add Editor Widget - Status changed to: Implemented

AlixVezina — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:28:47 GMT

Re: Add Editor Widget

MichaelTorbett — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:37:34 GMT

@AlixVezina , when are you going to add the 'Split', 'Reshape', and 'Merge/Union' components to the Editor Widget? Similar to what the Edit widget in WAB has.

Re: Add Editor Widget

AlixVezina — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 20:11:21 GMT

@MichaelTorbett It's on the roadmap to be added as part of a more advanced editing functionality toolset, but we don't have a definite date yet.

Re: Add Editor Widget

Division3NCDOTGOV — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:45:15 GMT

I would also add to this that it would be helpful to be able to copy feature geometry from one layer into another. This functionality is available in Smart Editor but not in the editor in Experience Builder.

Re: Add Editor Widget

FRAP_TiffanyMeyer — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:32:02 GMT

Please add the Smart Editor to ExB! Our agency has many apps stuck in WAB because ExB doesn't give us the capabilities we need to capture client data. One of the capabilities we need is for users to be able to add their own shapefiles, kmls, gpx files, etc. to the viewer, then copy that information into our feature service in the app. Our WAB apps look old and outdated, but they get the job done. Something ExB can not yet do.