Experience Builder formatting questions - conditional visibility of widgets with selection/cleared selections

MollyMoore — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:38:13 GMT

I am building an ExB app that allows users to browse a map, click site features, and return site descriptions and data about the site. I've tried a lot of different options for formatting the site descriptions which I'd like to include the site name, attachment photo, and text, but nothing has gotten me quite what I want.

Option 1. I tried setting everything up in a column widget because I like that you can auto stretch text for larger blocks. I like what this looks like format-wise, BUT when there is not a selected feature, I don't want the user to see the back end blank place-holders. Here are the two side-by-side with selection and without selection:

I tried putting the column in a section and changing views when a selection occurred which worked great, but then I couldn't figure out how to change back to the blank view when a selection was cleared.

Option 2. I tried setting everything up and formatting in the popup in AGOL Web Maps and then I could just insert the Feature Info widget. I liked that I could format everything with HTML here, BUT, I was unable to figure out how to embed the image in the HTML and putting the photo in as an attachment element in the pop-up left large vertical spaces between the photo and text elements.

Does anyone have any advice or ideas about how best to format info like this in ExB?

Re: Experience Builder formatting questions - conditional visibility of widgets with selection/cleared selections

Laura — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:16:31 GMT

Wonder is something along these lines would be helpful: https://community.esri.com/t5/experience-builder-tips-and-tricks/dynamic-text-that-looks-good-when-nothing-is/ba-p/1554217

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-questions/exb-tips-and-tricks/td-p/1311547

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-questions/text-dynamic-content-selected-how-to-change/td-p/1135278

Between these it does look like it can be done you just have to do some extra work. I haven't come across anyone solving this with images though.

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