topic Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020) in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

Anonymous User — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 05:48:25 GMT

Was really cool to see some of the new features in Experience Builder today. I'm looking forward to adding them to our existing experiences.

I did notice a few issues that I'd like to raise:

- If you have an existing Experience Builder, the update has altered some of the formatting and size of existing widgets. For example, we had an embedded content that filled an entire scrolling page, and the widget shrunk to only fill a small section of the screen. It wasn't until my client pointed it out that I noticed Experience Builder had actually been updated...so that wasn't very fun this morning! But I realise with new releases, these kind of things will happen.

- For connecting data to text widgets, the pop-up to configure the data & choose the field is stuck on the right side of the text box, which makes it impossible to configure if your text box fills the whole screen:

- One of the biggest issues I'm having is with a List action. I have a list on page 1 (Addresses), and another list on page 2 (Names of Workers). The selection from list 1 should filter list 2 (i.e. Based on the address, you can only select specific people from the next list). It works in live mode. It doesn't do this at all in preview mode or when it's published. This is a huge issue because it DID work when I was using it earlier this week, before the update. We can't continue our development with our project unless this is fixed. I would like to note that it does work if both lists are on the same page. However that's not the experience we are trying to create

- Another huge issue I'm experiencing is that in the Text widget, I can't create a hyperlink from an attribute. I have an attribute with a URL and I need to access that specific URL based on the items selected previously. This also worked earlier this week, but for some reason there is no pop-up to configure the hyperlink.

Overall I am super excited for the updates, however it's not very encouraging that our existing experiences needed to be altered/no longer work with the updates.

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

DanJiang — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:40:45 GMT

Hi Karen,

Sorry to hear that the update is causing some issues. Please accept our sincere apology. We are working on the patches and trying to fix them before UC2020. Here are some follow-up info of the issues you submit.

We had a patch fixing the layout upgrade issue and it is available in the product now. Would you please check the app again? It should be solved.
The dynamic content panel issue will be fixed in the following patches.
We cannot reproduce the message/action issue you described. Would you please provide us a sample app if you still can reproduce it?
The link issue will be fixed in the following patches.

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

victorCanut — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 08:12:15 GMT

I have also bugs following the update.
Dimensions and positioning of the widget and content have changed.

Is there a possibility for it to come back by correcting the bug ?

Thank's

I think too : "Overall I am super excited for the updates, however it's not very encouraging that our existing experiences needed to be altered/no longer work with the updates."

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

Anonymous User — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 22:38:50 GMT

Hi Dan,

Thanks for getting back to me and great to hear these things will get fixed soon.

Regarding the layout, my experiences are still looking weird. Below is an example of what it's supposed to look like vs. what it looks like after the upgrade (blurred for confidentiality)

In regards to the list actions not working, I have created an example Experience to demonstrate what I'm trying to do. It works in live mode, but not in preview or after it's been published.

Experience

Please reach out to me directly if you'd like further access to the experience to understand this bug. Thanks!

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

DanJiang — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 07:04:43 GMT

Hi Karen,

Thanks for providing us with the sample app and we are glad to tell that the action issue is fixed with today's patch. We do have a fix related to layout today and hopefully will fix your app as well.

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

DanJiang — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 07:12:51 GMT

Hi Victor,

Thanks for reaching out. We have fixed the layout issue in the first page and it will be good now.

For the second page, I am afraid it cannot be fixed by the upgrade program and you may need to make a very small modification manually, by selecting the column that contains the purple row and set its left spacing as 0.

The reason is that, in 1.0 we don't have a very strong layout parameters check and the column's layout settings are "width: auto, left spacing: auto, right spacing: auto", which is obviously meaningless, but somehow it works in the app. In 1.1 we make the restriction that if the width is auto, left or right must have one certain value. (they cannot be set as auto at the same time.). So after upgrading, the left spacing is around 30%(a value saved in the old app's config).

Thanks,

Dan

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

victorCanut — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 07:53:11 GMT

Thanks for your answer and for fixing the bug
I hope so the next upgrade don't do same

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

Anonymous User — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 03:49:10 GMT

Hi Dan,

It was great to see those updates so quickly!

Over the last few days I've continued to find some bugs, so I'd like to raise these as well.

1. I'm having a similar issue to before with the list actions on multiple pages. However, I'm now having an issue where a list action on Page 1 is supposed to filter a Map on Page 2. This works in live mode, but not in preview or published mode. Is this something that can be fixed easily (very similar issue to the one above)?

- The "zoom to" map action does appear to work across multi-page experiences; just the filtering of the map is not working.

2. I'm trying to add date fields into the text widget with no luck...namely the creation date/edit date of a feature. For example, I have a text box that shows data for the selected record. I want to show when that record was created, however it comes up blank.

This is happening with 2 of my Workforce layers; the workers layer and the assignments layer. It is happening with every single date field.

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

MarthaRodgers — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:53:24 GMT

Any updates on this bug you mentioned Karen?

"- Another huge issue I'm experiencing is that in the Text widget, I can't create a hyperlink from an attribute. I have an attribute with a URL and I need to access that specific URL based on the items selected previously. This also worked earlier this week, but for some reason there is no pop-up to configure the hyperlink. "

I am having this issue as well.

Thank you!

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

DavidMartinez — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:13:37 GMT

Hi Martha,

You can accomplish this by selecting the text attribute and selecting the link icon in the settings panel and then select the attribute with the URL. Please see the attached image.

Cheers,

David

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

MarthaRodgers — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:29:27 GMT

Thanks David, but this won't work for me. I don't have an attribute with a URL. I'd like to be able to "build" a URL dynamically from the current attributes. In other words, send to Integromat a payload with GlobalID, or even just send an email (but include the GlobalID). Does that make sense?

Thank you!

Martha

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

DavidMartinez — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 18:10:50 GMT

Thanks for the explanation. Currently, the link icon only accepts attributes and you cannot do any code for the mailto on text widget. We have an issue on this how to support dynamic URLs. What are some of the formats you're trying to accomplish?

Cheers,

David

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

MarthaRodgers — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:35:24 GMT

Hi David, well, I'm having an issue sending the GlobalID of a feature to a Survey123 survey in order to update an attribute. It works unless I have a list of features and I "select" using the list, it won't work. If I select via the Map, it works.

So, I've been trying to play with workarounds, like adding the GlobalID onto the web address that a button will call up, but that doesn't work either, even if I was able to get the GlobalID, I can't add it dynamically. See below.

So I have resorted to building a unique URL in the feature layer as it's being created. The field is called "report_pp_url", which is not ideal, but it will work for now.

Thanks!

Martha

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

Anonymous User — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:42:49 GMT

Hi Martha,

You can dynamically build a URL and pass the selected attributes through a button/hyperlink, it's not super obvious how to do it though. Took me forever to figure it out! See the screenshots below...you have to build an expression, and you have to make sure you pass through fields from the "selected" part of your dataset. Otherwise it will just take the first record.

A helpful tip is that if you use a hyperlink within a text box instead of a button, you can connect to multiple datasets and pass through fields from different datasets to the same survey/website. If you build the expression through the button widget, you can only connect it to one dataset.

Also note that the expression box doesn't allow you to paste text into it (so annoying!!) so if you don't have a field with your survey/URL, you have to type out the whole thing (example - https://survey123.arcgis.com/9gbv8372308gf) rather than copying it and pasting it. Kind of annoying but I guess you only have to type it once.

Hope this helps!

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

MarthaRodgers — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:23:43 GMT

Karen, you are AWESOME! This totally worked for me!! Thanks for the tips and screenshot example. I got it working and it saved me a TON of time.

Thanks a million!

-Martha

Re: Bugs with new release of Experience Builder (July 2020)

EmmaHatcher — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 23:27:32 GMT

The map extent trigger to filter the framework is overriding framework filters set by the list widget. The list widget triggers successfully filter the map, but the map zoom trigger set on the list widget initiates the map extent trigger to ignore the data filter setting.

I would expect the user to only then see the data visible in the map reflected in the rest of the framework, and have the extent changes work with only that visible data. Instead, it appears I can't have both-- each works very well separately, but they don't play well together.

I posted more about this here:

https://community.esri.com/message/956578-possible-bug-experience-builder-map-extent-triggers-override-list-filter-triggers