topic Re: &find feature - Is there something similar for Experience Builder in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

&find feature - Is there something similar for Experience Builder

JRSchee — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:57:22 GMT

We currently use the Web Mapping Application as we can embed it into our company software, click a button on a property and with the "&find" feature, it takes us directly to the property.

Can this be done with Experience Builder yet? If not, is this something that can be added?

Here is an example of what we currently use. We are hoping to have the same option for experience builder. Does anyone have any suggestions or insight?

https://bambl.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9cacdced019e4ec4acc53550971b6d17&find=ED25

Re: &find feature - Is there something similar for Experience Builder

KenBuja — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:49:17 GMT

Experience Builder also uses URL parameters. Look at the Data-related parameters section to see how to configure it to zoom to your selected feature

Re: &find feature - Is there something similar for Experience Builder

MichaelBAMBL — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:56:53 GMT

In the old web mapping application, we had &find= which would be used to search the attribute tables of all layers. Now in experience builder, we have to externally save every layer id per map and use it to programmatically build links.

We currently have no equivalent of the &find parameter in experience builder.

Re: &find feature - Is there something similar for Experience Builder

ShengdiZhang — Fri, 09 May 2025 06:10:54 GMT

You can add a search widget and use the search URL parameter. The URL would be something like #<searchWidgetID>=search_status:{"searchText":"<text>"}

Please find details in the help doc - https://doc.arcgis.com/en/experience-builder/latest/build-apps/url-parameters.htm#ESRI_SECTION2_448145FBBDC34FBABAA58E3143B8BDD3

Thanks,

Shengdi

Re: &find feature - Is there something similar for Experience Builder

MichaelBAMBL — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:11:43 GMT

It appears while this could be a solution, I still need to append a layer id after to tell the search bar what layer to search in. This technically isn't a solution for us.

Re: &find feature - Is there something similar for Experience Builder

ShengdiZhang — Mon, 12 May 2025 02:13:35 GMT

When I open the sample app you provided, it seems that in WAB, when using ?find, it searches all search sources in the search widget.

In ExB, if you do not specify a search source id in your URL, it also searches all search sources. I think this is consistent behavior.

If you see the layer ID in your URL, it should be the data selection URL parameter. When interacting with a map widget, the search widget will automatically select the first result.