topic Re: Drop-down widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Drop-down widget

rogue_recon — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:36:50 GMT

Are the drop-down widgets in the images below stock in Experience Builder, or are these custom? Here is a link to the experience to see it yourself.

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/52ffb83c47844ef5ba14e7a0f063fcc7/page/All-Surveys/

I have a project where I would like to do something similar and show data by the year, week, and mgmt area/city, and I have been at it for hours trying to figure out those drop-downs. I will create layers that can be turned on and off, but I would like to do it this way for aesthetics and ease of use. Any suggestions/answers would be much appreciated!

Re: Drop-down widget

JenniferAcunto — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 20:08:03 GMT

That looks like an ArcGIS Dashboard embedded inside of an Experience Builder app. Those dropdowns are category selectors in the dashboard header.

Re: Drop-down widget

rogue_recon — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:02:04 GMT

Interesting! I will take a look at doing that. Is that pretty common to embed a dashboard in EB?

Re: Drop-down widget

AngelaSchirck — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:11:50 GMT

I have similar things on my dashboard which I embedded in a story map. This looks like, as Jennifer said, they embedded a dashboard in an experience builder. You can definitely create a dashboard with the drop-downs.

https://pbcgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/abfbca1e2637490d960909e2d22a5495

Re: Drop-down widget

AngelaSchirck — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:03:38 GMT

EB is great for this functionality. You can embed dashboards, Instant apps, web pages and much more. It makes it much more useful then WebApp Builder.

Re: Drop-down widget

AngelaSchirck — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:09:49 GMT

I had to go look, it's called a category selector:

You can adjust the settings and what happens when a category is selected (e.g. filter, zoom, etc).

Re: Drop-down widget

AaronPDXPaul — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:43:33 GMT

Is there an update to this question? Why doesn't Experience Builder have a drop down widget? Creating a Dashboard and embedding it in ExB has limitations, and creates additional content. Why can't this widget be in ExB?

Re: Drop-down widget

EvanManrow — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:58:37 GMT

Bumping this. It's crazy that there is effectively no way to accomplish a filter by related-table in Experience Builder or Web AppBuilder, but the functionality was drag-and-drop in Dashboards a decade ago!

The result is that any data used in Experience Builder needs to be flattened to a single table, which is horrible. If you use joined views to accomplish that, it locks your schema.

It's like ESRI hates properly-refactored data. 🙄

Re: Drop-down widget

Lexicon1950 — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:55:11 GMT

It is May 2026, and there is still no designated drop down widget.

I did find a native ExB solution if you're looking to display unique values as a dropdown though: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-questions/drop-down/m-p/1513708/highlight/true#M14023. Still, this solution does not work for my use case of wanting to condense a Section's 15+ Views as dropdowns instead of horizontal/vertical buttons.