idea ExpB Working with Image Services in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

ExpB Working with Image Services

TilmannSteinmetz2 — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:51:45 GMT

Esri's Image Services have opened up a range of possibilities for organizations to share large volumes and numbers of raster data and this has really been a paradigm change for what we can do in web services instead of working with local raster files and geodatabases.

ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online must have been the latest addition to the Esri Image Service strategy and it is great to see Esri's commitment to also bring this to the cloud/SaaS.

There have only been a limited number of helpful tools for using and interacting with Image Services in the out-of-the-box Esri web applications, however, especially to make the most of the multidimensional capabilities (the 'new' MapViewer has now finally got the option to determine the image order and to add Raster Function Templates and one of the InstantApps is able to provide some interactions with Image Services).

In Web App Builder, there used to be no out-of-the-box widgets for interacting with Image Services, but Esri thankfully has a Github repo with the WABIS (WAB Image Services) widgets https://github.com/Esri/WAB-Image-Services-Widgets that can be used in Web App Builder Dev Edition. The WABIS widgets have done a great job for us and we have considered migrating them to Experience Builder Dev Edition - but so far, the learning curve to do that has been too steep and I have a hunch that other organizations must be in a similar situation.

Please consider adding out-of-the-box Image Service interaction to Experience Builder and/or migrate the existing WABIS widgets to Experience Builder Dev Edition to complete the story for ArcGIS being a full Image and raster platform.

@Jianxia @PeterBecker

Re: ExpB Working with Image Services

GianniCampanile2 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:54:27 GMT

Great Idea and absolutely needed.

Up to now there is no way to exploit the full capabilities of an Image service in ExpB. WABIS had a lot of functionalities but for me the minimum required is the render-on-the-fly and image ordering capabilities.

Gianni

Re: ExpB Working with Image Services

AmaiaMartinez — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 06:57:38 GMT

This is a must! Please Esri, take it into account 🙏...

Re: ExpB Working with Image Services

xingchenc — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:19:16 GMT

Agree, we have multidimensional mosaic datasets (in crf format) that can be viewed using the time slider in Map Viewer, but can't use the same raster data in EXB with the new timeline widget.

Re: ExpB Working with Image Services

Laura — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:23:14 GMT

Agreed! I need to filter my raster based on different depths, but EXB does not recognize this.