idea Search Widget for Experience Builder in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

Search Widget for Experience Builder

ZorbaConlen1 — Mon, 04 May 2020 14:50:37 GMT

Experience builder should have a search widget, separate from the search you can enable in the map or in a list. One obvious situation is that you want the search results applied to both the list and the map. That's not possible currently, as far as I can tell. Beyond that, you should have full control to configure search options, style the widget and control the placement.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

TaraHaynes — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 21:53:19 GMT

The functionality described by the original post would be very helpful. Currently, the search associated with the list and the search associated with the map are separate, which may be confusing to users.

In addition, the search widget on the map cannot be set to automatically "expand" when you enter the page, and its position within the map cannot be changed. Because of this, users who are unfamiliar with these environments may fail to notice or utilize the search widget. Having more control over the placement and expanded state of the search widget would be incredibly helpful in improving the end-user experience.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

Henry_PeleshBW — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:02:53 GMT

I also would find a configurable Search widget very helpful in ArcGIS Experience Builder.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

Tweed_ShireAdmin — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 03:43:04 GMT

Agree - Experience Builder needs a search widget similar to web app builder. The fact we cannot remove the World Geo coded address in Experience builder is a big downfall.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

LiisiPark — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:25:24 GMT

The Search Widget is really missing. At the moment I can build up my Expereience Builder bage based on filtering, but there are so many things that you can't filter out instead you would like to search it from map layer/table. Also query Widget would be really healpful.

Please add Search and Query Widgets into the development plan if possible.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

TiiuKelviste — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 05:13:10 GMT

Currently, it is not possible to query elements on the page (list, map, etc) without search and query this environment is not filling the needs for our end users especially non-gis related personnel who are used to find information by entering keywords.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

PaulMorrison — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:01:19 GMT

I'm with others on updating the search tool functionality. I hope Esri dedicates a large team to get Experience Builder up to feature parity with Web App Builder. I guess I'm frustrated by the constant churn of new products, yet missing functionality.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

MelissaNorthey — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:43:15 GMT

Trying to use Experience Builder today to get layer grouping that I set up in Map Viewer Beta to come through. Using my pre-grouped rest service did not allow me to add custom label expressions. Now in the final stages of putting together a rather simplistic web app and I cannot configure the searching as I had in Web App Builder (which does not see my layer grouping). Two steps forward and one back all day and now back to the drawing board.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

DaveFullerton — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:08:40 GMT

If you are willing to use the developer edition you might take a look at this post:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder/jsapi-search-widget-in-custom-exbuilder-widget/td-p/1005580

Esri hasn't responded to the downsides of my custom widget, so your Kudos are welcome in case that influences their decision to respond.

The code would have to be updated (very easy) to reference your own geocoding service, featureclass, or just the geocoding services in your portal if you would like (the way it is in Esri's Map widget). It is also likely that you could figure out how to update more styles on the JSAPI Search widget inside the custom ExB widget similar to what I have done by overriding the CSS width property for the input element.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

RodWoodfordOld — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:23:22 GMT

Yep a search widget is essential. Coming from the WABD environment, replicating the standard query and Roberts Esearch widgets would be fantastic additions and give the product more required functionality . Many of the WABD widgets are missing and need to be developed before we can move.

cheers

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

PaulMorrison — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:44:28 GMT

I'll add my vote to this widget upgrade. Actually, I wish Experience Builder would start getting closer to feature parity with WAB. It seems like the widgets are still lagging way behind.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

RodWoodfordOld — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:27:12 GMT

Yep I agree. WAB development is suffering at the expense of Experience Builder development but its slow going in getting any parity!!

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

JohnNergeBrooklynPark — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 02:23:24 GMT

Just adding my voice to the choir. Most of our WABs are simple maps with the search bar configured to run a feature layer search on our parcels so we can open a pop-up instead of a geocoding result, which isn't helpful to most users.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

wightman_akibby — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:00:29 GMT

I am in agreement with all of this. The Search widget in Experience Builder needs to mirror the capabilities in WAB. For those wanting to search layers in a the web map used in your Experience, you CAN configure a search through the settings tab in the Item Details page of your web map. Under Application Settings, toggle on By Layer and configure your search there. It's not a complete fix to the shortcomings of the Search widget in Experience Builder, but it does provide some functionality.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

JamieLambert — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 03:13:05 GMT

Thanks for that info @wightman_akibby !

Pop-ups were turned off in the map for the feature I used in the Search tool though they still opened in Experience Builder... I had to turn them off at the feature layer.

I didn't see any option to zoom to rather than pan.

I've tried several times to jump across to Experience Builder, and I always end up using WAB. Very frustrating. It would be a better Experience if Esri started with the functionality that already existed in WAB then everyone could migrate. Not many widgets from WAB on the 2021 Experience Builder roadmap either.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

NataliyaLys — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:08:31 GMT

Agree with everything above. There is a big need for a configurable search widget.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

BrittanyBurson — Mon, 03 May 2021 17:57:26 GMT

Here to agree with everyone. In addition to the current functionality, given the extra options with Experience Builder to build out pages, it would be great to also have a "floating" search option rather than having to rely on one tied to the map or list widgets. This would be super helpful for things like keyword searching, a requirement in a project we are currently trying to deliver. An example is the keyword search in the homepage of Newmarket's "Choose Local" portal: https://maps.newmarket.ca/chooselocal/

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

TanGnar — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 17:17:09 GMT

I think there is plenty of support for this already. But an added detail here is that a separate search widget would be able to search all records of a layer, even if the map extent is zoomed in and is filtering a list. If I use the search tool on the list, the search tool doesn't return items that are outside of extent. It's desirable for the user to search for features which may fall outside of current map extent.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

Boyang_Wang — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:33:33 GMT

I also need a search widget to custom search source, like a specific feature layer, not the universal geocoding service. I believe there is no way to modify the search source in the map widget search tool.

Re: Search Widget for Experience Builder

Boyang_Wang — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:09:54 GMT

I just found that List widget seems to be able to do what I described in my previous post. However, the panning and zooming effect is not working for some reason. I added message action for the List widget, trigger set as Record Selection Changes and Action set as map Pan to and Zoom to. However, when I selected a search result in the List widget, the only thing it does was making all features disappear except for the feature I selected, with no panning or zooming effect. Is there a tutorial video showing how the List widget works?