topic Re: Edit Widget - Form integration in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Edit Widget - Form integration

YS2388 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:28:52 GMT

Hello,

Would anyone know why (in my case at least) the edit widget does not respect my Map Viewer form configuration? Specifically the form title. Instead showing a proper, dynamic title when a selection is made, the widget displays the layer's "Display Field".

I don't understand why this is the case and have not found a fix.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

MaryEllenPerko — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:11:35 GMT

Hi. Piggy-backing on this question as I think I have a similar issue. Specifically, I want to use an expression (concatenation of several fields) for the titles of the features listed in the edit widget from a map selection. I published (using Pro) the feature layer with an expression in the display field and it shows up in the map viewer layer properties in popup and fields. But, the edit widget only shows a single field value for each feature. It may be the first field in the expression, but I'm only guessing because I don't know where the title/description is coming from. Is this as designed/expected or am I missing something.

Thanks.

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

AlixVezina — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:32:05 GMT

Hi @MaryEllenPerko and @YS2388 ,

This is a known limitation right now. As @YS2388 described above: instead of showing the dynamic title when a selection is made, the widget displays the layer's "Display Field" that was defined when the service was published. Here's another similar post: Solved: Re: Edit widget - Untitled feature - Esri Community

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

YS2388 — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:27:14 GMT

Hi Alix,

Thanks for the information and confirming the limitation. As an aside - this limitation is present only when the Edit widget is configured for "Attribute Only" editing. When it's configured for "Geometry and attribute" editing the web form's title (dynamic or not), group names are all respected.

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

AlixVezina — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:32:00 GMT

@YS2388 Thanks for clarifying! Yes, the "Attribute Only" case in the Experience Builder Edit widget may behave differently. In this case, are you editing a Table layer that has a smart form configured?

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

YS2388 — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:36:20 GMT

No I am editing a map layer's table, but do not wish to display (or edit) geometry in the widget, hence the "Attribute only" configuration.

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

AlixVezina — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:56:57 GMT

If you are only looking to update attributes for a feature layer that has a smart form configured and is found in a web map, the smart form should show up as expected when you edit those features.

Two things to consider:

1. Make sure to connect the Edit widget to the feature layer that is found in the web map data source. That will be important if you have created the smart form from within the web map and it has not been saved against the feature layer.

2. If you are connecting the Edit widget directly to the layer itself, you should go to Map Viewer, and from that layer's properties, you'll want to hit Save. This will save, against the feature layer itself, any changes you've made to this layer from within the web map (such as symbology and the smart form).

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

YS2388 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:39:12 GMT

Hi Alix,

Thanks again for your help. I have followed your 2 steps and am still having issues. For the smart form, the Edit widget respects the fields configuration and any group names, however, the form's title is entirely not displayed and instead the "Display Field" appears.

Another observation - any changes made to the smart form are not visible in the Edit widget until I "save" the webmap. If only saved against the feature layer as in your Point 2, the changes are not visible.

Thank you.

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

AlixVezina — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:51:54 GMT

@YS2388 ,

Please are you able to share a screenshot for " For the smart form, the Edit widget respects the fields configuration and any group names, however, the form's title is entirely not displayed and instead the "Display Field" appears." showing what you are seeing and what you'd expected to see?

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

YS2388 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:16:28 GMT

This is what I am seeing:

And this is what I wish to see.

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

AlixVezina — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:02:12 GMT

Thanks for sharing @YS2388. I'll touch base with the team on this one and get back to you.

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

AlixVezina — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:17:54 GMT

Hi @YS2388 , looping back to confirm that there is a bug and the form title is not displaying at the top for the Attributes Only case. We're working on fixing it with the coming ArcGIS Online update.

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

YS2388 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:09:34 GMT

Thank you for the reply Alix! Looking forward to the update.

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

AlixVezina — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:35:58 GMT

@YS2388 Just wanted to let you know that with the upcoming fix for this, the smart form title will be displayed at the top of the form (in the example below the smart form title is "Asset ID: 1674"), but the display field will still be shown in the header next to the back button. This is a known limitation for now.

Re: Edit Widget - Form integration

YS2388 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:43:16 GMT

Hi Alix,

Thank you for the follow-up, I appreciate it. I've had to switch my project to WebApp Builder due to Experience Builder not having a batch-editing functionality. Hopefully this will be implemented in Experience Builder in the near future.