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Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

EmilyHildebrand — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:11:04 GMT

Hello! I am new to experience builder, I am trying to set me search tool up too zoom too the address selected and have a pop up show information about the location, like the evacuation zone it is in and if there is a evacuation status alert. I would appreciate any help or guidance with this!

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

JRhodes — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 17:55:43 GMT

Hi @EmilyHildebrand, this is an old post but in case it's helpful to you or anyone else, here's how to do that. This assumes you're searching a layer with addresses (instead of using a locator), and that the information you want in the popup is all in a single layer's popup configuration (either in a web map or on the service itself)*. If you want to pull popup configurations from several layers, or if you want to use a locator to search an address then find intersecting features for that address, I'd suggest using Zone Lookup.

Add a Feature Info widget, then click "Select data" to set the layer you want to pull the popup from. This can be a layer in a map (which will use the layer's popup configuration as set in the web map), or you can pull the feature layer's default popup configuration by clicking "Add new data" and browsing to the service.
Under "Source" in the Feature Info widget configuration panel, choose "Selected features" from the dropdown.
Add the Search Widget, then click "New search source"->"Layer source" and add the layer with addresses you want to search. (If you don't want the features you're searching to be filtered by the Search Widget, create a data view of the layer and use that as the source.)
On the Action tab in the Search Widget, add a trigger for "Record selection changes"
On the Action tab in the Search Widget, click "Add action", select the Framework as the target, then choose "Select data records" and set your address layer from Step 2 as the Trigger data, then set the layer you want to pull the popup from as the Action data (these may be the same).
On the Action tab in the Search Widget, click "Add action", select the Map as the target, then select "Zoom to".

*You can pull information from multiple layers using Arcade FeatureSets into a single layer's popup configuration, but that's another topic.

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

JonathanLee — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 20:20:06 GMT

This is great! Can you provide more info on using Arcade with the Feature Info widget?

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

JRhodes — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:47:47 GMT

Hey Jonathan,

What are you trying to do exactly? The FeatureInfo widget just uses a popup configuration, so really you're just using Arcade to configure a popup, which is a pretty broad topic. If you have a specific goal in mind, I'm happy to see if I can help.

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

JonathanLee — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:54:41 GMT

Thanks for the reply, Joseph. I actually realized this very thing this morning when I woke up, randomly. At the time I asked the question, I was thinking you meant we could do Arcade customization within Experience Builder. Ha. Thanks again.

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

GeorgeBrown1 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:28:05 GMT

Using the new Experience Builder within our Enterprise/Portal for the first time. I have been searching for an answer to my Search widget within Exp Builder using only one of my locator utilities. I can't seem to find a setting for the Search widget to tell it to only use ThisLocatorService. Instead, when they type an address, it show the list for all of our locator services. Thank you for any assistance you can provide.

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

JonathanLee — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:09:16 GMT

Hi @GeorgeBrown1, if I understand correctly, you only want one search source to be used in the search widget. To do this, you would remove any other search sources in the widget configuration aside from the ThisLocatorService.

Below is a search widget with two configured search sources:

If I only wanted the first search source to be used, I'd remove the second one from the widget configuration.

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

GeorgeBrown1 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:23:26 GMT

Hey Jonathan,

Thank you for the reply. I believe the issue is I have yet to find how to add a Search widget to the map canvas. The only Search option I have been able to find is the one located Under the Map 1 Content that shows as a radio button under the Tools section for what you want displayed on the Canvas. There is nowhere, I can find yet, to allow me to access the settings you have above. If you click on the Seach tool on the map canvas, it has no response. If you click on the Search radio button under Tools, it will only allow you to turn the tool on/off. If I go to the Left pane, hit the Insert icon (+ symbol) it shows the Insert Widget list as New/Pending. Under New I would have thought there would be a 'Search' widget to drag to the Map1 canvas, but there is not. Thinking this is what is missing?? Does that make sense?

Thanks again.

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

JonathanLee — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:59:25 GMT

Hey @GeorgeBrown1, I believe I understand. The search tool (in the Tools section) is pretty limited so I turn that off and use the search widget instead. But I believe the issue for you may be that you are missing the search widget altoghether. This could be due to the version of Enterprise you're on (https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/search-widget-in-enterprise-experience-builder/td-p/1231681) because the search widget was not available in the original version of Experience Builder. I'm using Experience Builder in AGOL so I didn't even think about this until I did some brief research.

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

GeorgeBrown1 — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:32:05 GMT

Hey @JonathanLee , that makes complete sense; different versions! We are on Enterprise/Portal 10.9.1, using the built in free EB. After review of your link, and some more web searching yesterday, it looks like our Enterprise Dev License should allow us to install the Dev edition to get all the missing tools that the AGOL has.

Thanks again!

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

jschuckert — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:08:26 GMT

@JRhodes this got me close, however I must be missing something. I get as far as search, click a search result --> map zooms, highlights (and/or also flashes) in my case the selected parcel however no pop-up.

The Feature Info widget displays the configured pop-up which is good, however in some cases we may not this docked window but rather the traditional pop-up on the actual map feature.

I do have pop-ups configured as I can then click the feature on the map, or another feature, and see the same pop-up as the docked Feature Info widget--duplicate info at that point.

Something this common in terms of map/data functionality should not be this complicated or difficult to enable! What am I missing?

Jared

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

JRhodes — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:28:36 GMT

HI Jared, here's what I do in that case. I create a second web map just for the FeatureInfo popup configuration (you could also just configure the default popup on the service, but I noticed some buggy behavior doing it that way). Then on the main map I either disable the popup on the layer being used in the FeatureInfo widget or just make the popup say something like "see details in left pane", so the popup isn't duplicated. Then add the new map to your ExB project and point the FeatureInfo widget to the layer on the new map and make your Search widget and map widget select its records when searched/clicked. Here's an example.

To my knowledge, it's not currently possible to automatically show a feature's popup on the map when returned as a search result. The FeatureInfo widget is an imperfect workaround.

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

Su_C — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:11:49 GMT

Hello!

I wanted to inform that ENH-000150230 is included in the product plan.

Synopsis: This enhancement aims to provide the functionality to show a pop-up when the feature or location is found for the search widget in Experience Builder.

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

EricPescatore — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:09:54 GMT

@Su_C wrote:
Hello!
I wanted to inform that ENH-000150230 is included in the product plan.
Synopsis: This enhancement aims to provide the functionality to show a pop-up when the feature or location is found for the search widget in Experience Builder.

I want to be clear here. Are you saying that there is no way currently to have a Pop-up when a feature is selected wtihin the Search widget? A functionality that has existed since time began on both Dashboard and WebApp Builder?

As i read through this entire post and was simply confused as to why the user was being told to use a Feature info widget.

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

apgis16 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 21:22:34 GMT

Even with the standard ArcGIS Locator in WAB, the search widget will show this. Is there a workaround to configure this in experience builder?

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

JonathanLee — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:17:30 GMT

Hi @EricPescatore, based on my testing (as of today), the current behavior is that the search widget can zoom and pan and select the feature that is searched in the Search Widget but a pop-up will not activate. Yes, unfortunate, but at least it is an enhancement request.

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

JRhodes — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:32:29 GMT

FYI to all, the functionality to open a popup on search results (or from any widget-initiated selection: query, list, etc.) was included with the last AGOL update. It's a setting in the Map widget ("Show popup upon feature selection"). However, there's a bug that causes the popup to be blank if the feature service was published from Pro (instead of directly in AGOL): BUG-000162942 for ArcGIS Experience Builder (esri.com)

@EricPescatore @apgis16

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

EricPescatore — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:39:18 GMT

Thanks Joe for the assist and pointing out that critical bug that I will need to keep track of and will ask ESRI to escalate it as well form our organization.

The popup, there it was under the Map Widget options. I had not at all considered that was were the setting would be to define how/when pop-up interacted with the map.

For those wondering: Now search will trigger a pop-up. use actions on the Search widget to further refine how it interacts. Again this may not answer the original question of this post but it got me past this step. Thanks Community.

Not where i expected it to be...

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

jschuckert — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:58:39 GMT

Thank you @JRhodes !! I have an open case with ESRI with lots of back and forth over the last month trying to understand why the new pop-up configuration settings work with some data (ESRI Living Atlas for example) but not my production data. In my case everything was published from Pro so now this makes sense.

To other folks on the thread, I am also blown away it has taken up until now to have this functionality available and "built in" to the new ExB product. I feel often times there is too much focus on new development and functionality where the core capabilities of a product needs to be apples to apples first, as priority one. I have found this to be the case over the years with Pro where a common and core functionality is missing for years before being added.

Re: Experience Builder Search widget help with creating custom pop up

JohnPantzlaff1 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:14:35 GMT

I see that the bug has been fixed (BUG-000162942 for ArcGIS Experience Builder (esri.com)). However, my searches still won't generate an automatic pop-up for me. I have to click on the address bar below the search bar to generate a pop-up. Can you confirm if it works for you or if this is the fix? Thanks for any help you can provide.