idea Granular Scriptable Control over Web AppBuilder Widget Configurations. in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-web-appbuilder-ideas/granular-scriptable-control-over-web-appbuilder/idi-p/934080 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>After asking around, it seems that there is no good way to fully control the configuration of a WAB website down to the individual widget settings, other than manually.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>We ideally&nbsp;need&nbsp;an api that exposes all the various settings for WAB widgets, (at least the out of the box ones,&nbsp;&amp; would be great if external widget developers could also implement it in their widgets) so they can be controlled via python (preferably) scripts. In an environment where there are&nbsp;many&nbsp;staff working on various things, and many WAB websites for different parts of the client base that are 'supposed' to be configured the same way - it's hard to keep Dev, Staging &amp; Prod all in sync, and prevent any one-off changes from a standard baseline.&nbsp; We're in the beginning stages of trying to implement a CI/CD process for controlling all our web apps and servers via scripts, but so far WAB seems to require human intervention via a GUI for most everything.&nbsp;Having a&nbsp;way to periodically run some reconfig scripts across each WAB website to ensure everything remains consistent would be ideal.&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 18 Apr 2019 20:45:44 GMT JuliaHarrell1 2019-04-18T20:45:44Z Granular Scriptable Control over Web AppBuilder Widget Configurations. https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-web-appbuilder-ideas/granular-scriptable-control-over-web-appbuilder/idi-p/934080 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>After asking around, it seems that there is no good way to fully control the configuration of a WAB website down to the individual widget settings, other than manually.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>We ideally&nbsp;need&nbsp;an api that exposes all the various settings for WAB widgets, (at least the out of the box ones,&nbsp;&amp; would be great if external widget developers could also implement it in their widgets) so they can be controlled via python (preferably) scripts. In an environment where there are&nbsp;many&nbsp;staff working on various things, and many WAB websites for different parts of the client base that are 'supposed' to be configured the same way - it's hard to keep Dev, Staging &amp; Prod all in sync, and prevent any one-off changes from a standard baseline.&nbsp; We're in the beginning stages of trying to implement a CI/CD process for controlling all our web apps and servers via scripts, but so far WAB seems to require human intervention via a GUI for most everything.&nbsp;Having a&nbsp;way to periodically run some reconfig scripts across each WAB website to ensure everything remains consistent would be ideal.&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 18 Apr 2019 20:45:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-web-appbuilder-ideas/granular-scriptable-control-over-web-appbuilder/idi-p/934080 JuliaHarrell1 2019-04-18T20:45:44Z