topic Re: Experience Builder-Highlighting Bookmarks in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Experience Builder-Highlighting Bookmarks

GarthHoxsie-Quinn — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:01:35 GMT

Hello all,

I am making a simple navigation page to highlight census data for Rhode Island Municipalities. I have been able to set up bookmarks to zoom us around the state to each municipality but I wanted to know if there was a way for the bookmark to provide a halo around the municipality on screen. I am aware that this would be similar to how "List" works but the reason I am not using list is because we are using Municipal Icons for each bookmark.

If we use list, you can't have different images for each item on the list, the list is not able to be alphabetized, an hyperlinks do not work.

I am open to any questions, thoughts, comments or concerns.

Thank you

Re: Experience Builder-Highlighting Bookmarks

Laura — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:31:06 GMT

As far as the list goes - I've set it up to use different images for each record by creating a field in the table called hyperlink and having the image point to that field.

Re: Experience Builder-Highlighting Bookmarks

ShengdiZhang — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 01:47:09 GMT

Hi @GarthHoxsie-Quinn ,

If you use bookmarks, you can draw graphics on each bookmark, but I don't think that's a good idea for complex polygons.

If you use a list, you can add a sort field in the Data Panel - Layer Settings to sort the list alphabetically:

Regards,

Shengdi

Re: Experience Builder-Highlighting Bookmarks

GarthHoxsie-Quinn — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:53:24 GMT

Shengdi,

You are a life saver! I did not realize you could draw a polygon in the bookmark. You are right thought, this would be too complicated. That being said, you can drop an icon in the bookmark to denote the area you are looking at.

Thank you!

Re: Experience Builder-Highlighting Bookmarks

GIS_Weasel — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:17:19 GMT

@GarthHoxsie-Quinn- this is the correct solution. The List widget is most appropriate, and we've done this a bunch of times.

Place your images onto a web server using an attribute in the data in the filename
Set your image to have a dynamic source
In that source, create an Expression and configure it to use a URL that looks something like: "https://my.domain.com/folder/subfolder/" + {OBJECTID} + ".jpg"

You could also hard-code the source URL right into your dataset as one of the attributes, but that's less flexible.

The issue with this is, Experience Builder is designed for non-developers. For this to work you need to have the facility to place images onto a webserver in a known location, which isn't necessarily possible.

You might be able to use AGOL hosted images as sources to get around this - though I've not tried, it should work.