topic Re: Cursor from Select Widget not disappearing on Widget Window close in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Cursor from Select Widget not disappearing on Widget Window close

ola — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:33:24 GMT

I have come acrosss a weird behavior of the Widget Window and Select Widget. When I close the window, not minimising it, the expected behavior if the Select Widget cursor is activated would be to close too in my opinion. It does not close but remain active even when the widget window is closed. Is this a bug? If not, it would be very useful to have the option to have the Select Widget terminate completely when closing the widget window. I have attached a GIF recording of the mentioned behavior.

Re: Cursor from Select Widget not disappearing on Widget Window close

JeffreyThompson2 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:49:46 GMT

I think this falls in the category of "intended behavior", but I'm not sure it is the best design decision. In your case, it could be helpful reaching a feature that might be hidden behind the Widget Panel. By design, the end-user must click back on the Select Tool to turn off selection mode.

Re: Cursor from Select Widget not disappearing on Widget Window close

ola — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:46:51 GMT

Most people I have user tested this web app with find it confusing as an 'X' usually indicates closing (quitting) an application or in this case a widget. So when the select tool doesn't disappear when quitting the widget with the 'X' button this breaks that design pattern and how people are used to interact with the GUI. Since the widget has a minimise window button, that further indicates that the 'X' button should quit the widget and its processes.

It would be interesting to hear from the Experience Builder designers if this is indeed the intended behavior.

Re: Cursor from Select Widget not disappearing on Widget Window close

Ke_Xu — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 02:56:40 GMT

Hi @ola @JeffreyThompson2,

We plan to fix this in this release. Cursor from Select Widget will disappear when closing widows.

I will keep you update.

Thanks,

Re: Cursor from Select Widget not disappearing on Widget Window close

ola — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:13:23 GMT

That is great to hear. I am looking forward to seeing that update. We are launching a huge internal Experience Builder (map app) for our organisation aimed at users who have little-to-no GIS experience, who just want to see our map data, so every little detail like this makes a huge difference in the on-boarding process. Thanks!

Re: Cursor from Select Widget not disappearing on Widget Window close

Ke_Xu — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:29:46 GMT

Hi @ola,

In the June 2025 release, we have enhanced the behavior of the Select widget within the Widget Controller.

For interactive selection:
- After closing the Select widget, interactive map selection is disabled.
- After collapsing the Select widget, interactive map selection is still available.

Thanks,

Re: Cursor from Select Widget not disappearing on Widget Window close

ola — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:35:46 GMT

Thank you Ke_Xu for updating me on this issue.