idea Web AppBuilder - remove dependency on arcgis.com or portal in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-web-appbuilder-ideas/web-appbuilder-remove-dependency-on-arcgis-com-or/idi-p/931241 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>When building web apps, I really do not like the dependency on on arcgis.com or portal in order to build web apps.</P><P></P><P>Please allow us to set up web apps internally, so that we can archive all of our projects.&nbsp; Example:</P><UL><LI>We publish a map service to our ArcGIS Server.</LI><LI>We open up flex builder on our server and create a map.</LI><LI>Users access the map on our server.</LI></UL><P></P><P>I am having a hard time understanding why we need to do additional work with ArcGIS.com</P><UL><LI>We publish a map on to our ArcGIS Server.</LI><LI>We publish the ArcGIS Server Map to as a map in arcgis.com again.&nbsp; THIS IS VERY UNFRIENDLY!&nbsp; I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE HAVE TO PUBLISH THE SAME THING TWICE.</LI><LI>We have to hope no one deletes our service.&nbsp; We can "prevent users from deleting the service" but that is not the same as being able to go back to our own backup system that we have control over.</LI><LI>We then create a Web App in arcgis.com.</LI><LI>We then need to download the web app and manually publish the web app to our server.</LI></UL><P></P><P>Why do we have to have all the silly extra steps?&nbsp; arcgis.com should be an service geared towards those that down own their own arcgis server.&nbsp; It should not be an additional requirement for those that paid for arcgis server!</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:04:58 GMT MarkVolz 2016-07-13T19:04:58Z Web AppBuilder - remove dependency on arcgis.com or portal https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-web-appbuilder-ideas/web-appbuilder-remove-dependency-on-arcgis-com-or/idi-p/931241 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>When building web apps, I really do not like the dependency on on arcgis.com or portal in order to build web apps.</P><P></P><P>Please allow us to set up web apps internally, so that we can archive all of our projects.&nbsp; Example:</P><UL><LI>We publish a map service to our ArcGIS Server.</LI><LI>We open up flex builder on our server and create a map.</LI><LI>Users access the map on our server.</LI></UL><P></P><P>I am having a hard time understanding why we need to do additional work with ArcGIS.com</P><UL><LI>We publish a map on to our ArcGIS Server.</LI><LI>We publish the ArcGIS Server Map to as a map in arcgis.com again.&nbsp; THIS IS VERY UNFRIENDLY!&nbsp; I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE HAVE TO PUBLISH THE SAME THING TWICE.</LI><LI>We have to hope no one deletes our service.&nbsp; We can "prevent users from deleting the service" but that is not the same as being able to go back to our own backup system that we have control over.</LI><LI>We then create a Web App in arcgis.com.</LI><LI>We then need to download the web app and manually publish the web app to our server.</LI></UL><P></P><P>Why do we have to have all the silly extra steps?&nbsp; arcgis.com should be an service geared towards those that down own their own arcgis server.&nbsp; It should not be an additional requirement for those that paid for arcgis server!</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:04:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-web-appbuilder-ideas/web-appbuilder-remove-dependency-on-arcgis-com-or/idi-p/931241 MarkVolz 2016-07-13T19:04:58Z