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

Experience Builder for Portal Print Widget?

PlzHelp — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:27:59 GMT

Hello,

I am using Portal version 10.9.1. I have an app in Web App Builder that uses the printing widget. I am trying to recreate this same app in Experience Builder but do not see any print functionality. Is this expected? When I log into AGOL and look at Experience Builder, there is utility services section (symbolized with a little wrench) to add printing capabilities. Should I also see this wrench in the Portal version?

Thank you!

Re: Experience Builder for Portal Print Widget?

Richard_Purkis — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:50:22 GMT

Hi @PlzHelp

The documentation suggests it is not yet a supported widget in ArcGIS Enterprise. There is an existing enhancement request ENH-000133272 to have this functionality in Enterprise. The status is "In Product Plan".

If you have a workaround via utility services I would use that for now

Hope this helps

Re: Experience Builder for Portal Print Widget?

SteveCole — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:18:42 GMT

The sad reality is that developers are between a rock and a hard place. ESRI deprecated WAB before EB reached parity, and the differences between developer/AGOL/Portal are maddening. I'm in the same boat with a 3.x JS API app that I decided to migrate to WAB only to find out that WAB is getting replaced by EB. My migration to WAB got most of the way to what I wanted but there were some annoyances that I now know won't get enhanced due to its replacement by EB.

I've found EB to be particularly useless in the Portal environment. I can't implement any of my desired core functionality with where it currently stands. FWIW, here is a functionality matrix ESRI published about 2 years ago which is updated over time:

Functionality Matrix for WAB vs EB

The matrix does NOT differentiate between developer / AGOL / Portal versions of EB, however.

Re: Experience Builder for Portal Print Widget?

PlzHelp — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:42:26 GMT

Thanks for your input, Steve. Much appreciated.