https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-questions/edit-widget-different-behaviour-if-inside-a-layout/m-p/1701456#M23293 <P>Love the ability to use Layout-Widgets. Recently stumbled upon different behaviour of the Edit-Widget depending on where it is placed.</P><P>Example:<BR />If you add an Edit-Widget directly on the canvas and link it to the map, you get the data-action="edit" entry in the map popup — which is a great shortcut for users <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P><P>However, if the Edit-Widget is placed inside a Column-Widget, that data-action is missing.</P><P>Same behaviour when the Edit-Widget is inside a Column-Widget inside a Widget-Controller.</P><P>Is this intended behaviour or a bug/limitation of nested Layout-Widgets?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="AndreasEugster_0-1778567383008.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/152341iB670A8A1DE43219D/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="AndreasEugster_0-1778567383008.png" alt="AndreasEugster_0-1778567383008.png" /></span>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="AndreasEugster_1-1778567399260.jpeg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/152342iC8E21D79F64CB295/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="AndreasEugster_1-1778567399260.jpeg" alt="AndreasEugster_1-1778567399260.jpeg" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 12 May 2026 06:49:46 GMT AndreasEugster 2026-05-12T06:49:46Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-questions/edit-widget-different-behaviour-if-inside-a-layout/m-p/1701456#M23293 <P>Love the ability to use Layout-Widgets. Recently stumbled upon different behaviour of the Edit-Widget depending on where it is placed.</P><P>Example:<BR />If you add an Edit-Widget directly on the canvas and link it to the map, you get the data-action="edit" entry in the map popup — which is a great shortcut for users <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P><P>However, if the Edit-Widget is placed inside a Column-Widget, that data-action is missing.</P><P>Same behaviour when the Edit-Widget is inside a Column-Widget inside a Widget-Controller.</P><P>Is this intended behaviour or a bug/limitation of nested Layout-Widgets?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="AndreasEugster_0-1778567383008.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/152341iB670A8A1DE43219D/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="AndreasEugster_0-1778567383008.png" alt="AndreasEugster_0-1778567383008.png" /></span>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="AndreasEugster_1-1778567399260.jpeg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/152342iC8E21D79F64CB295/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="AndreasEugster_1-1778567399260.jpeg" alt="AndreasEugster_1-1778567399260.jpeg" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 12 May 2026 06:49:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-questions/edit-widget-different-behaviour-if-inside-a-layout/m-p/1701456#M23293 AndreasEugster 2026-05-12T06:49:46Z