topic Re: Experience Builder Print Widget? in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Experience Builder Print Widget?

DanAllen — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:23:01 GMT

Is there a print widget, current or planned for experience builder? I certainly cant seem to find it anywhere in the builder or help menu.

thanks

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

DavidMartinez — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:47:05 GMT

Hi Dan,

We currently do not have the print widget available in the builder. We can take your feedback and add it to our new enhancements lists. In the meantime, if you have the developer edition of Experience Builder you can easily import the Print widget into Experience Builder for use.

David

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

DanAllen — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:14:37 GMT

Thanks David. Hopefully soon then. I was looking at this as a possible replacement for an AppBuilder application that is hosted on argis online. I know the client likes to print maps. I'll sit on the sidelines with this product until it develops a bit more.

best

Dan

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

Henry_PeleshBW — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:50:59 GMT

Hi David,

I was wondering if you could provide some information and guidance on how to "import the Print widget into Experience Builder for use", like you mentioned above. I have Experience Builder Developer addition installed and working properly but was hoping for some insight on how to implement a Print Widget into my experience.

Thank you,

Henry

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

DavidMartinez — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 21:23:12 GMT

Hi Henry,

In this sample arcgis-experience-builder-sdk-resources/samples/widgets/editor at master · Esri/arcgis-experience-builder-sdk-resources … you could basically replace the editor widget with the print widget. See the attached zip file. This is using the 1.1 release.

Cheers,

David

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

Henry_PeleshBW — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 22:27:38 GMT

David,

Thank you for the response and helpful information.

When I go to follow the guide from arcgis-experience-builder-sdk-resources/samples/widgets/editor at master · Esri/arcgis-experience-builder-sdk-resources … How do I know which file to add the appropriate code to? I am a little unfamiliar with the file structure of Experience Builder.

Below is an example. I am struggling to find which file I need to add the code expressed in this screenshot, and the rest of the guide as well.

Thanks!

Henry

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

DavidMartinez — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 23:33:50 GMT

The widget samples will all focus on the widget.tsx file. You can find out more about the widget implementation details here. https://developers.arcgis.com/experience-builder/guide/extend-base-widget/

Also, in my previous response, I posted the source code to add the print widget. You can just basically unzip that folder and copy it into your client/your-extensions/widgets folder and restart the client service for Experience Builder.

David

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

Henry_PeleshBW — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:35:50 GMT

Thank you David. This was very helpful. I was able to successfully implement the print widget into my custom experience. I appreciate your time and insight on my issue.

Henry

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

Anonymous User — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 22:56:29 GMT

Hi David, I found your response and attachment helpful to add the print widget to my own Experience Builder Developer Edition. How would I add this custom widget to the Web Experience I have created in the ArcGIS Online environment?

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

DavidMartinez — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 23:22:11 GMT

Hi Alisha,

Currently, custom widgets are only supported in the developer edition. This means you would have to host the app that includes the custom widget on your web server or some other online hosting site (e.g., Github pages).

Cheers,

David

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

JoshWhite — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:42:56 GMT

I find this disappointing. I was testing out experience builder as the web app builder is being phased out eventually but I find the not only the lack of this simple widget frustrating, the overall inability to edit how the widgets work is also frustrating. For instance the scale bar is only viewable in meters which is not helpful at all when you do everything in feet.

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

Jianxia — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:53:35 GMT

Currently tools come with the Map widget do not have settings like those in WAB. We plan to reach the functional parity with WAB through incremental releases. Could you help submit an enhancement to Esri Support or ArcGIS Idea site?

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

MalcolmMeyer2 — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 21:03:58 GMT

Just adding to the discussion here and a bit late to the game, but printing is the number one feature my app users want. I too was testing experience builder and was liking the look of it, then found out there is no print widget. And it's not just my users that want print functionality, for the viewers of the very popular interactive swiss topo maps, one out of every nine visitors used the print feature!

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

BrendonJoyce1 — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:20:03 GMT

Agreed. Being able to actually rotate the map and have a better pdf exporting tool would be of great value.

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

MatthewMalone — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 20:19:28 GMT

I also agree that my users frequently print to PDF using WebApp Builder. Now with today's (3/9/21) announcement of Map Viewer Beta becoming the standard map viewer, most of us know that those great new Map Viewer beta functions (grouping layers, etc) aren't usable in the current WAB (I realize it will still display the layers). The advent of the Map Viewer Beta's tools is one of the reasons I experimented heavily with Exp Builder, so I hope the functional parity arrives this year...especially printing for those without developer editions.

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

Jose_FranciscoSánchez_Díaz1 — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 12:49:42 GMT

Hello DavidMartinez, is possible to host the app on Github pages? My web hosting haven't node.js configured and it would be great to be able to publish the experience builder on github pages!
Thanks

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

JuhaHaanpera — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:39:28 GMT

Hi,
We have used the old PrintPlus widget in Webapp Builder. The print idea of the PrintPlus widget is excellent, but it is technically outdated and the print performance is poor. We desperately need a modern and high-performance print widget on top of Experience Builder or Webapp Builder.
Do you recommend developing a replacement print widget ourselves? Alternatively, will there be a ready-made print widget like PrintPlus on top of Experience in the future?

Thanks for the tips in advance 🙂

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:01:00 GMT

There is a custom print widget available here:

https://community.esri.com/t5/experience-builder-custom-widgets/print-widget-eb-1-4-1/ta-p/1058721

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

Arsha_Amiranti — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 16:05:39 GMT

This widget is exactly what I'm looking for and using Developer version is not an option, because of maintenance matter. Simple workaround I did is create the app in WAB with print widget and embed it in EB. Which is not really the best solution but it works for now. Definitely support the idea of having print widget for the next release!

Re: Experience Builder Print Widget?

AxelLévy — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:04:36 GMT

Hello Robert

Do you think it's possible to implement the layout extent function like on your webappbuilder custom print widget ? It was very usefull