idea Copy widgets and formatting to other pages in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

Copy widgets and formatting to other pages

CrystallSalmon — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:40:32 GMT

It would be awesome to be able to duplicate widgets and copy them to other pages. For example, for making pages mobile, I have several of the same widgets on several pages. I have to recreate each one each time, even though they are all formatted the same.

Re: Copy widgets and formatting to other pages

AlixVezina — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 22:07:13 GMT

@CrystallSalmon The copy and paste (CTRL/CMD - C and CTRL/CMD - V) keyboard shortcuts work for copying and pasting widgets between pages and preserving your configuration.

Re: Copy widgets and formatting to other pages

ZachBodenner — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:13:56 GMT

@AlixVezina I don't think they do. Within the same page they work, but not from page to page or from experience to experience in different windows, which would be really helpful. This has caused me countless minutes of extra work over the years and I really hope this idea gets some attention from the ExB dev staff.

Re: Copy widgets and formatting to other pages

AlixVezina — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:42:19 GMT

@ZachBodenner It also works between pages within the same app! But you are correct, not between different, separate apps.

Re: Copy widgets and formatting to other pages

ZachBodenner — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:32:02 GMT

@AlixVezina Would you be willing to set up a meeting time so I can demonstrate that it doesn't? Unless there's something about my setup that is non-standard, it simply does not work from page-to-page.

Re: Copy widgets and formatting to other pages

Jianxia — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:44:04 GMT

@ZachBodenner, thanks for letting us know. Which browser and browser version are you using? Have you tried Chrome with the latest version?

Re: Copy widgets and formatting to other pages

ZachBodenner — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:18:09 GMT

@Jianxia I'm on 1.20 dev edition with Enterprise 11.5 & AGOL, used in Chrome

Re: Copy widgets and formatting to other pages

Jianxia — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:12:34 GMT

@ZachBodenner, Could you please contact Esri Support? They can work with you to reproduce the issue in an environment similar to yours and help us investigate further.

Re: Copy widgets and formatting to other pages

ZachBodenner — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:42:38 GMT

Update: A bit of user error, a bit of undocumented behavior: What I had been doing is copying a widget, switching to live view, and navigating to the page I wanted to copy to, exiting live view and attempting to paste. Entering Live view seems to clear the clipboard - if I navigate to a different section using the outline panel, then indeed the copy-pasting works fine.

Re: Copy widgets and formatting to other pages

Jianxia — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:58:04 GMT

@ZachBodenner , thanks for sharing. We will clarify it in the document.