idea Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

Marokapara — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 18:46:48 GMT

Hi there,

We'd really like to see some of the Smart Editor widget and Edit widget from WebApp Builder brought into Experience Builder. We're working with farmers to enable them to map their current farm layouts and then plan what it could look like over the next 30 years.

It's cumbersome to have to redraw/adjust the layout multiple times. If we could get them to copy what's already been made and then split or merge polygons from there, that would save a lot of time for them and make our product more appealing to use, especially for these users who are not GIS people. These features are usable in WAB, but they don't have the conditional visibility at the level we need that ExB has.

In addition, the ability to draw a circle out right via the Edit Widget in ExB would be a game changer for them as their are lots of pivots on farms!

This takes 8 clicks in ExB to draw, and it still isn't exactly what we want.

In WAB's Edit widget, this takes only 1 click and it's perfect (geometry wise)! Attribute conditional visibility is missing though.

Please consider adding in these improvements. It would definitely up the usability of the Edit widget in Experience Builder! If we could hide feature to feature and geometry guides from the user, but have it turned on from the back end, that would be great too.

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

HollyTorpey_LSA — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 21:10:23 GMT

We would really appreciate these enhancements as well! Our biologists would like to use the EB edit widget to delineate vegetation types, and sometimes the easiest way to do this without ending up with slivers and gaps is to start out with an outline of the study area and start splitting it into its consituent parts. They also use it to delineate long drainages, and occasionally click too fast and unintentionally complete a polygon prematurely. A merge tool would allow them to create the remaining portion of the drainage and then merge it with the first part.

Overall, though, I think the usability of this widget is a big improvement over the WAB version... if its functionality can be expanded a bit, it will be amazing.

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

AndersØstmoe — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:27:02 GMT

Without the ability to split, copy and merge the edit widget is lacking cruical functionality for quite a few users. If a feature has 50 property fields it is just to cumbersome to draw a new feature instead of just splitting or copying.

I hope you improve the edit widget in the nearr future!

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

DominicRobergeIADOT — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 22:41:04 GMT

Any news on this idea?

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

SimonRoy1 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 21:59:59 GMT

Field Maps does not allow users to split or merge features, so we use Web AppBuilder Edit Widget to overcome these limitations.

Since Web AppBuilder support will end with the retirement of JavaScript 3.x API on July 1, 2024, it would be important for us to have these functionnalities available in Experience Builder before then.

Is there any plan to do so in a near future?

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

MichaelTorbett — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:29:01 GMT

We really need this in my agency for wildfire mapping and stewardship plans. Right now we are using Web App Builder and it's editor widget for these workflows. Is there any update to this idea?

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

TaraDunning — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:50:01 GMT

These enhancements would be very beneficial to my company also. As an agricultural company we need something to help us map pivots, and residential buffers for buildings. Is there any update as to when these might be available?

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

AbiDhakal — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:23:53 GMT

We need the Edit widgit in WebApp Builder to be available in Experience Builder. Our agency has100 Portal users and all of our users use WebApp Builder apps to do a variety of spatial data creation and edits using the WebApp Builder Edit widget, and if that and the Geprocessing widgets are not going to be available in Experience Builder from next year then we will not be able to perform our agency business objectives. It will render our Portal useless.

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

SveinungBertnesRåheim — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 06:16:28 GMT

We really need to get the split and other "advanced" tools into edit-tool in experience builder and in the instant apps.
You cant retire WAB without replace this important functionality.

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

GerberMatthew — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 01:13:04 GMT

I find that this missing functionality is a critical flaw especially seeing as WAB is being deprecated for EB.

The 2 primary purposes of web applications are "Telling a story" and "Giving the power to subject matter experts to edit"

We are in the investigation process of determining our custom widget transfers and the amount of "Lost functionality" we are finding in out of the box functionality is getting bigger and bigger.

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

AndersØstmoe — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 12:24:18 GMT

Can ESRI please give us some information on this issue? Is there any obstacle stopping you from adding the split feature?

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

JessicaGough — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:44:40 GMT

Adding a vote for this request - we need at least all current editing functionality of WAB to be available in EB, including:

Copy-paste

Select / add to selection / remove from selection / clear selection

An efficient attribute editor

Cut

Union/merge

Reshape

Delete

Undo/Redo

Batch attribute

Edit related tables

Add attachments

Editing that respects requirements of smart forms (e.g. un-editable fields, required fields)

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

AbiDhakal — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:03:15 GMT

@JessicaGough I agree! We need to have a minimum of all of those widgets and capabilities that is already available in WAB in EB. The clients also need to be able to filter layers and attributes for mapping, displaying and printing purposes. I did a lot of dabbling in EB and what I found out is EB has the widgets, but they are only namesake, and not do anything close to what the same widgets do in WAB.

The minimum requirement for us to move to EB and a minimum standard for Esri before they cut out WAB is to have EB as capable as WAB on the widgets. All the widgets in WAB should be availabe in EB beyond namesake.

Thank you,
Abi

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

AlixVezina — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:16:43 GMT

While the Web AppBuilder Smart Editor widget "as-is" will not be migrated to Experience Builder, the functionality you are requesting will be provided over time through the new Editor widget, and possibly some more related tools. Multiple teams at Esri are collaborating right now and are fully dedicated to making this possible. We apologize that this is taking some time.

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

DominicRobergeIADOT — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:48:18 GMT

@AlixVezina (nothing personal here) but here's the thing, if ESRI had a true competitor, you guys would have never released a product without matching all functionalities from the previous version. Now, ESRI has the mindset of releasing products (ArcGIS Pro, AGS Online, mobile apps, etc.) with less functionalities than previous versions and tells us the clients/users to not worried, ESRI will add functionalities over time without a definite time line.

I truly wished there was an alternative to ESRI out there... because the quality of ESRI's products has declined over the past few years and is a real issue for us (client/user) trying to help our customers (internal/external).

That's just my 2 cents.

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

Laura — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:51:35 GMT

I would love the ability to split. I have just moved my Cemetery to completely online work - whenever a plot needs to be split I have to do it rather than them being able to do it on the spot while they are inputting data.

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

DominicRobergeIADOT — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:46:36 GMT

In ArcGIS Earth 2.1, you have more editing capabilities than Experience Builder. If you have a polygon layer , you can create a polygon, create a buffer, square, etc...

if you have a line, you can do Direction-Distance...

Why can't we have these functions (and more) in the Map Viewer and EB?

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

JenFrazer_USFS_NR-GISS-IRIN — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:30:23 GMT

Work for the US Forest Service, this would greatly help us!

If VertiGIS has this ability, I don't understand why Experience doesn't.

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

ClayDonaldsonSWCA — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:41:45 GMT

Agreed - this feature is long overdue. The fact that we have to vote for ideas that were already implemented in WAB is disappointing.

Re: Add Split/Merge/Circle/Copy in Edit Widget

AlixVezina — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:28:20 GMT

Hi there,

Check out the new Web Editor application: ArcGIS Web Editor – Your Data Maintenance New Best Friend (esri.com)

You'll find tools that allow you to copy and paste feature, manage selections, cut/split features, merge and reshape features, batch delete, edit related features, and much more!