idea Add an Accordion widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

Add an Accordion widget

JoseBarrios1 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:58:39 GMT

Accordions are very common and valuable tools for organizing data in web applications due to their ability to conserve space and enhance user experience. By initially displaying only headers or summaries, accordions allow users to selectively expand sections of interest, minimizing clutter. This design also promotes better information hierarchy, improves readability, and streamlines navigation, particularly for content-rich interfaces (see sample image below).

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Re: Add an Accordion widget

TimWestern — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:07:48 GMT

This could be a good idea especially if you lots of data that basically goes one level deep before an interaction any deeper and it actually starts looking like a tree.

Re: Add an Accordion widget

TomDuncanGIS — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:22:18 GMT

Great idea!

I like how the Feature Info widget in the Sidebar Instant App uses the Accordion design to manage pop-ups that contain data from multiple layers. It would be great if ExB implements this design for the Feature Info widget. The new functionality in ExB to provide for pop-ups of multiple layers is quite clunky and not user friendly compared to the Sidebar Instant App.

Re: Add an Accordion widget

TimWarfe_MSC — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:23:02 GMT

@TomDuncanGIS I totally agree with your comments. I love how the Sidebar Instant App displays multiple layers of data. 🙂

Re: Add an Accordion widget

KatiePhillips_ODNR — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:24:42 GMT

Accordion widget is desperately needed. Especially for those of us who are converting from WebApp builder and JavaScript to Experience Builder. It was so easy to have multiple things in one sidebar pane that could be expanded and collapsed. Please prioritize this.

Re: Add an Accordion widget

JeffreyThompson2 — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:17:08 GMT

Next update

Re: Add an Accordion widget

ArianaMo1912 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:37:54 GMT

Have you seen the news?😊

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/experience-builder/latest/configure-widgets/accordion-widget.htm

I am trying to make it work for my lists.

Please share if you incorporate it in your experience.

Thank you!

Re: Add an Accordion widget

AaronPDXPaul — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:57:30 GMT

ArianaMo1912

It appears not to work in lists within ExB.

The Accordion Widget can't be added to the List.

But using it in a List to Accordion Records would be nice.

I also tried in a Grid, but that looses the abilities a List has.

I was really hoping it was more similar to a Dropdown Menu.

Which it could be if the Accordion allowed multiple Buttons.

It has potential.

But could have more functionality, or purposing

Re: Add an Accordion widget

AaronPDXPaul — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 01:01:46 GMT

ArianaMo1912

I stand corrected.

It was a knowledge gap on my part.

The Workflow is to add a List to an Accordion.

But this doesn't make sense either.

Unless you want to hide the list, then expand it.

But how is this different than a Sidecar.

I'm failing to get this widget 😞

Re: Add an Accordion widget

TimWestern — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:30:08 GMT

I just realized that on the programming side, there may also be a CollapsablePanel in jimu-ui.

And I used it in settings for a widget.

SO I think what you are asking, is for a control that acts like a container with show/hide functionality of whatever gets put inside of it

Re: Add an Accordion widget

AaronPDXPaul — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 19:45:07 GMT

@TimWestern

Yes, I believe so.

But without custom code, just using AGOL ExB.

It is like an I Want To Button that can be seen on Esri's site, and in many others.

It's a drop Down Menu that doesn't exist in ExB yet.

But there's good news.

If you experiment around with the Accordion Widget enough.

There are many uses, including a Drop Down Widget, that does not yet exist.

I invented it today, and am building a prototype that I can share

Re: Add an Accordion widget

TimWestern — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:07:33 GMT

So I tried this with a list widget, and it works mostly as I'd expect it.

The one thing that throws me:

It shows a name defined in the DOM Tree on the left.

I think it could be useful to be able to define things like display name, and perhaps use statistical aggregates like count, sum, average in it also like some other widgets have for their containing data.

For example:

Count: # of records displayed (or if its filtered data # of records of the filtered value
Sum: Sum of numerics: Ex: Acreage/area, Property Values, Taxes etc.
Average: Same as Sum and so on.