topic Okay seriously, what is up with experience builder filters in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Okay seriously, what is up with experience builder filters

DiegoNegron — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:46:52 GMT

Okay so it should be simple, a filter widget should allow you to have an action that filters other layers based on your selection. WHY!? Why does it not do this. The only thing I can think of is that if they include this functionality in EXB, that it cannibalizes dashboard functionality. I just want to make a drop-down list that has boundary values that when I select them, it filters events or facilities or list elements. Or what about a spatial filter! That would be amazing... seems to be an obvious oversight by the team OR intentionally limiting EXB functionality. I have multiple times gone to Dashboards because EXB does not have this functionality.

Re: Okay seriously, what is up with experience builder filters

Laura — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:15:08 GMT

Try the query widget

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-questions/spatial-filter-in-experience-builder-how-to/td-p/1272496

Re: Okay seriously, what is up with experience builder filters

JeffreyThompson2 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:49:18 GMT

The Filter Widget was designed to be used with tabular data and does not require a Map Widget. The Select, Query, Near Me and Analysis Widgets all have ways of making spatial selections.