topic Re: Text box inside Card widget with Arcade code to count records in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Text box inside Card widget with Arcade code to count records

JoseSanchez — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:24:45 GMT

Good morning,

I’m looking for a sample that demonstrates how to use Arcade to count records from a hosted feature layer, specifically when connected through Dynamic Content in a text widget. I’m trying to understand how to access the data source and its fields using Arcade.

Essentially, I want to achieve the equivalent of COUNT("OBJECTID") in Arcade.

Re: Text box inside Card widget with Arcade code to count records

Ke_Xu — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 01:20:05 GMT

Hi @JoseSanchez,

You can refer to the examples here. https://doc.arcgis.com/en/experience-builder/latest/configure-widgets/advanced-formatting.htm

Thanks,

Re: Text box inside Card widget with Arcade code to count records

SanchezNuñez — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:29:01 GMT

Good afternoon @Ke_Xu

I am looking for a way to implement this code from your link:

var ds = $dataSources["dataSource_id"].layer;

var distincItem = Distinct(ds, 'CNTRY_NAME'); return Count(distincItem);

Could you please explain to me how to add this line "var ds = $dataSources["dataSource_id"].layer;" from the default function generated in Experience Builder;? How do I find the dataSource_Id?

function getFilteredFeatureSet(ds)

I do not understand how to type this line $dataSources["dataSource_id"].layer; in the function generated by Experience Builder.

// Documentation: https://arcg.is/18ejKn3

function getFilteredFeatureSet(ds) {

var result = ds.layer;

var queryParams = ds.queryParams;

if (!IsEmpty(queryParams.where)) {

result = Filter(result, queryParams.where);

}

if (!IsEmpty(queryParams.geometry)) {

result = Intersects(result, queryParams.geometry);

}

return result;

}

Thanks

Re: Text box inside Card widget with Arcade code to count records

SanchezNuñez — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:46:25 GMT

Found it!

There's no need to declare a function—just typing the code is enough.

var ds = $dataSources["dataSource_3-1-dataView_1"].layer;

var distincItem = Distinct(ds, 'OBJECTID');

return Count(distincItem);