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Can we have ALL widgets that exist in Webappbuilder have an equivalent in Experience builder BEFORE phasing out Webappbuilder?

KFunahashi_SSMMA — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:42:02 GMT

Because many of the familiar Webappbuilder widgets are not yet available on Experience builder, complete migrations from Webappbuilder to Experience builder are not possible for a lot of my web apps. Yet, Esri is beginning to change how map views work on the map viewer, so things stop displaying properly on the Webappbuilder apps unless I open the classic map viewer and manually fix the visualizations. I see this as Esri really beginning its move to phase out Webappbuilder.

This puts us in a bind. Not all of us have the time to hang out in the classic maps to manually fix visualizations to accommodate the planned obsolescence of Webappbuilder. But Experience builder is not mature enough to accommodate all the Webappbuilder functions. Having one-to-one equivalency of ALL Webappbuilder widgets BEFORE phasing out Webappbuilder would really have helped with making a smooth transition. But better late than never...

Re: Can we have ALL widgets that exist in Webappbuilder have an equivalent in Experience builder BEFORE phasing out Webappbuilder?

Laura — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:22:19 GMT

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/web-appbuilder/latest/create-apps/wab-exb-widget-functionality-matrix.htm

Looks like it is already planned out. If there is something not in the documentation here that would be useful I suggest creating an idea for it.

Re: Can we have ALL widgets that exist in Webappbuilder have an equivalent in Experience builder BEFORE phasing out Webappbuilder?

KFunahashi_SSMMA — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:44:52 GMT

That's the thing, they have a bunch that they don't plan on making equivalent widgets for in Experience builder. We are a big user of Public Notification, so that not being available except as a standalone stings pretty hard.

Re: Can we have ALL widgets that exist in Webappbuilder have an equivalent in Experience builder BEFORE phasing out Webappbuilder?

Laura — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:47:00 GMT

Put an idea in and see if it gets any following! At least it is available in instant apps and not just going away altogether.