topic Re: Set geocoder to a specific country or code in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Set geocoder to a specific country or code

Hlynur — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:51:52 GMT

Hello, working with experience builder and am a bit stuck on the search 'widget' settings.

Problem being that I am not finding what has replaced the "Country or region code(s)" option from the web app builder search widget settings, to be able to narrow search results to the respective country of "Norway" or "NOR". To be clear then we are relying on the default ESRI geocoder.

Has this option from web app builder search widget just been removed in experience builder search, or am I not seeing the forest (countrycodes entry) from the trees (experience builder)?

Happy friday everyone, or as we say in Iceland: "Gleðilegan flöskudag kæra fólk", -Hlynur

Re: Set geocoder to a specific country or code

fdeters — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:37:56 GMT

Happy Friday!

It seems like the new approach is to create a Locator View from the Esri geocoding service, then use that locator view in your Experience app's search widget. Here's an article about creating Locator Views: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-online/mapping/configure-locator-organization/?srsltid=AfmBOorLWohU5RQzBlw744wqtMh49jG1aBpGmdwGifmcfgJ7y4gZOCzB

I also found this post about creating a Locator View for custom geocoding services (it's not what you were asking for, but maybe it will help someone else): https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-ideas/local-search-is-missing-in-the-experience-builder/idi-p/1149014/highlight/true

Re: Set geocoder to a specific country or code

Hlynur — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:46:44 GMT

Thanks for this @fdeters, that first link was exactly what I needed. Odd that we now need to go through AGOL and credits to get the general geocoder from ESRI down to a country specific level... but it is what it is.

Re: Set geocoder to a specific country or code

gis_mags — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:42:13 GMT

Is there a solution for users in enterprise that doesn't involve AGOL? Would love to be able to limit by region, but I am in Enterprise 11.3 and I don't believe the locator view functionality exists there yet.

Re: Set geocoder to a specific country or code

fdeters — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:25:22 GMT

@gis_mags I can't test it out myself to see if it really works, but the Enterprise 11.3 documentation does have instructions for creating a Locator View from the ArcGIS World Geocoding Service: https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/11.3/use/create-locator.htm