topic Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Experience Builder edit widget issues

HansonMichael — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 21:52:54 GMT

When using the edit widget in Experience Builder, the widget loads layers from the map to the widget that should not be loading and are not editable services, in some cases it even loads a map service to the edit widget. The errant layers in the edit widget appear to be editable but they are not. I only want those services from the webmap that are marked as "editable" to appear in the edit widget, not any service from the layer list. This problem started appearing a few days ago (week of 06/20) and is intermittent at times but will eventually happen to any Experience Builder app. In my attached screenshot the layers showing in the widget are not feature services, they are map services and not editable. Does anyone know why these layers are appearing in the widget and how to remove them?

Using new web map, Experience Builder, and feature services and map services are coming from an Enterprise GIS server (10.8.1). Thank You.

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

TianWen — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 06:01:21 GMT

Could you provide a little more information regarding the data that you are using? Sample data would also be very helpful if possible. Thank you!

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

HansonMichael — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:39:45 GMT

Thanks for your help. We are consuming ArcGIS Enterprise Map Services into the web map and those services are showing up in the edit widget. I would think only Feature Services would/should show up in the edit widget. Additionally, when setting up my edit widget settings in web map, I only added my editable layer to the widget, but the editing widget will still display other layers in the map in the published version. So my editing widget has only one layer added to it but multiple layers show up regardless in the tool.

Here is a sample experience I just made to show the issue. You'll see the "Sample Editing Layer" is the layer I specified to be used in the widget, it is supposed to be there and is a feature layer. You can edit it. The "Economic Rates - highlight" is a map service, that is not editable, and is showing up erroneously in my edit widget. You can try to edit it but it wont save and shouldn't be there anyway. FYI the mystery edit layers always are suffixed with "highlight" in the edit widget.

Here is the experience builder that I built to showcase the issue:

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/51e7e9d9d8cd4d61886648c3905fb187/

Here is the layer I used, which is random to recreate the issue, but it is happening with other map services from other servers as well: https://services.gis.ca.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Demographics/UnemploymentAndPoverty/MapServer

thank you for your help

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

TianWen — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 03:41:01 GMT

The edit problem has been fixed. Thanks for reporting it!

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

HansonMichael — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 16:02:42 GMT

Hello Tian, the issue has returned to our experience. It was fine the last few days and showed up again today (07/06/2022 0902PST)

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

BlairMcclenathan — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 14:25:29 GMT

Tian,

We have had issues with these 'phantom' features as well, for us the issue has been occurring when adding a map service to an existing map, so these features are unable to be edited and therefore should not be showing up at all.

Thanks!

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

PaulDorroh — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:13:53 GMT

Tian,

The issue is still a problem. I am see addition layer that should not be in the edit widget. 8-25-2022

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

ChristinaNeal — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 14:51:30 GMT

@TianWen I am also experiencing this issue. Is there a fix for this?

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

ClangDevGuy — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:08:37 GMT

I'm also noticing this issue in Enterprise 11.2 and ExB version 1.13 :(.

A work around is adding in the Feature Server and turning off editing from the WebMap or having popups turned off.

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

lah — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:48:42 GMT

This just started happening for us as well in Enterprise 11.1. These features are not even editable, as OP mentioned, and everything has "-highlight" at the end of it. I can't figure out where this is coming from and our users are getting very confused.

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

PatOBrien — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 07:09:17 GMT

Hello @TianWen - we experience the same thing in Experience Builder (Portal 11.2).

Externmely poor user experience on this one - lots of confusion.

This is clearly a bug. Has it been addressed in 11.3?
@Jianxia - can you check in with your development team?

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

TianWen — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 07:28:15 GMT

We apologize for any inconvenience caused. Yes, the fix has been included in Enterprise 11.3.

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

PatOBrien — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 04:18:46 GMT

Thanks @TianWen, appreicate the swift response. Look forward to our future 11.3 upgrade where this will be resolved.

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

PatOBrien — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:34:51 GMT

Hello @TianWen @Jianxia - I have been doing further testsing on this matter within ArcGIS Online and the problem still arises where I have an Experience with:

An Edit Widget
A Map Widget
An Elevation Profile Widget - with settings 'Selectable Layers' Enabled with either the 'Ground Elevation' OR 'Customize' settings applied for the Selectable layers.

Within the Published Experience the problem arises when:

A user opens the Elevation Profile Widget
Uses the Select Line method
Selects the Line in the Map
The elevation profile then draws using the select line
The selected lines then appear in the Edit list under 'create features' - as can be seen below:

Therefore the bug is still present in ArcGIS Online, so I suspect that even if we upgrade to Enterprise 11.3 (currently on 11.2) it will also be present.

Can you please investigate and inform if:
1. It will be fixed in ArcGIS Online
2. It will be fixed in Enterprise 11.4

Thanks

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

TianWen — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 06:18:45 GMT

We are unable to reproduce the issue on our end. Could you provide a sample app for further investigation?

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

Tanner_Sorgenfrey — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:49:16 GMT

@TianWen I am having a unique issue with the edit widget.

The layer settings and the widget settings are set to not allow editors to delete date. But I am still able to delete data from the edit widget of my experience.

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

Tanner_Sorgenfrey — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:56:30 GMT

In this same scenario I would like to access related records in the edit widget, without being able to update geometry. Once again, the settings shouldn't allow the geometry to be updated, but within the edit widget I can. (similar to delete features)

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

lklun — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:05:23 GMT

I am experiencing this in enterprise 11.3, do we know if it's been fixed in 11.4 or 11.5?

Re: Experience Builder edit widget issues

Smartmars — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:15:11 GMT

Hello @TianWen

I am experiencing this issue in the current version of ArcGIS Online when using map services in a web map. After a feature is clicked in the Map widget in Experience Builder, an entry appears in the Edit widget named <LayerName>-highlight. Will this issue be fixed in the near future? Thank you.