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Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

AzinSharaf — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 23:46:40 GMT

I am using Experience Builder in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8.1. In Embed Widget, how can I use the expression?

I need to concat my url with GlobalID field. I can't make it work.

Re: Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

Anonymous User — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:38:37 GMT

Hi Azin,

Please try to use quotation marks around the static text.

Shengdi

Re: Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

AzinSharaf — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:01:17 GMT

Thank you Shengdi. It is working now.

I couldn't copy the URL from the clipboard into the Expression so I typed all the long url. This is a different issue.

Re: Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

BrunoSousa1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:52:26 GMT

I don't know why we can't paste text inside expressions. I've had to type hundreds of characters already and it's a pain...

Re: Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

TonghuiMing — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 02:11:39 GMT

@BrunoSousa1 The reason, to put it simply, is that the copy & paste function does not only evlove the strings/codes themselves that we can see from the UI but also needs to support the data source structure behind it if evolved, e.g. getting the field id from multiple data sources, etc.

We are working on these kinds of enhancements to provide a better user experience in the future. Thanks for staying with us.

Best,

Tonghui

Re: Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

BrunoSousa1 — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:32:37 GMT

Btw, a friend of mine found a workaround for pasting strings into the expression. He just opened developer tools on the browser and found the html for the expression box and pasted the URL there. The pasted text shows up in the UI and you can save it from there.

Re: Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

DavidMurray_ODWC — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 01:51:46 GMT

Another little snag is that all the text displayed by esri is sans serif. So me typing in "...jRf8jjFwxedITdFe/arcgis/rest/services..." (or whatever address) becomes annoying when that l is really an I, or vice versa.

Re: Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

DavidMurray_ODWC — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 03:19:24 GMT

That works??!

Edit April 2021: No, not in Firefox browser, at least.

Re: Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

MatthewCriel — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:54:19 GMT

Is the embed widget still being enhanced? I want to connect it with multiple data sources and multiple fields within a feature.

Thanks!

Re: Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

rachelm — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 07:45:08 GMT

I have tried this for the URL link on a Button widget, and I cannot save the application after adding the dynamic field. So my parameter isn't passed in. Technically this should work but I can't get this to save in order to test it out.

@Anonymous User any idea how to deal with this?

(Workflow is passing parameters to a webhook that will create a Survey123 report using the Rest api)

Re: Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

ShengdiZhang — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:04:01 GMT

Hi, you were still in the editing state before you clicked the Insert button, so the Save button is not enabled.

Re: Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

BrunoSousa1 — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:10:27 GMT

I believe your expression should look like this:

"https://www.myurl.com/"+{GlobalID}

With quotes and plus sign

Re: Using Expression in Embed Widet in Experience Builder (enterprise edition)

JesseCloutier — Mon, 13 May 2024 15:48:28 GMT

For record-keeping: 11-18-2020 post from Anonymous User belongs to @ShengdiZhang.