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Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

RodWoodfordOld — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:21:17 GMT

Hi,

Would it be possible for ESRI to develop a customisable WAB Reporting Widget to generate reports that will contain a map and/or attribute information. Reporting functionality is a critical part of spatial workflows. It would be useful for any potential WAB report widget to be able to call upon nominated reports eg crystal reports, SQL reports, etc. Obviously the report and map would need a common identifier like the Objectid or land parcel identifier, etc.

If this is not possible how about a simple report builder widget that allows the administrator to bring together the nominated map, attributes, chart, etc from a resultant query.

ESRI you need to develop this widget as part of the standard widget interface in WAB. I realise one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to reporting but at least expose a simple reporting widget for clients to start to work with.

cheers

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

NikkiGolding — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:12:05 GMT

Hi Rod Woodford,

The Solutions team recently released a configurable AWAB widget that supports reporting as part of the workflow. As of now, it requires an AWAB Developer Edition deployment. Moving into the summer this will become part of ArcGIS Online. As part of the work, we've created a report dijit that will be part of the next version of AWAB 2.4 developer edition.

Moving forward we will begin to incorporate reporting as additional solutions like our Situational Awareness solutions.

Feedback and comments are welcome.

Nikki

Esri Solution Lead

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

RodWoodfordOld — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:19:45 GMT

Hi Nikki,

Thats great news. Look forward to working with it.

cheers

Rod

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

BillSpiking__GISP — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:07:16 GMT

Outstanding job on the widget! Look forward to seeing it in the next version of the AWAB.

One use case to consider for future development....

It would be nice if this widget allowed you to consume an output from the Analysis widget, either pulling the output layer in directly within the Report widget UI (preferred) or exporting a geojson of the analysis for import back into the widget. For instance, we use the Trace Downstream analysis to identify sensitive receptors (water intakes, wetlands, etc) downstream of an oil or hazardous material spill and it would be nice to be able to use the trace downstream analysis output to generate a report of sensitive receptors.

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

MichaelRobb — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:26:33 GMT

I believe the reporting that is described by Rod is of the ability to create custom PDFs with tables, images, maps etc. To be able to select specific parameters and have a customized templated PDF output for the user.

I also have had high client demand for reporting, as in, PDF export of tables / maps etc. which usually end up having to be complex custom, ground up .net items.

The reporting included in WABde 2.4 is a 'markup' - report an error in geometry 'reporting'. This workflow is for fixing data using the web interface. Click on a feature... review status, Notes, severity, reported by. This is a feedback widget to be used in conjunction with ArcGIS Data Reviewer for Server Extension. Quite different than what I think we are looking for. (e.g. ReportLab Plus - System PDF Generation)

what WABde looks like:

Configuring the Reporting Widget

Click on a feature... review status, Notes, severity, reported by.

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

BillSpiking__GISP — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:55:29 GMT

Hi Michael,

I don't believe the widget was included in WAB Dev 2.4. You'll need to download it from here: Environmental Screening | ArcGIS for State Government and add the "Screening" folder to your C:\arcgis-web-appbuilder-2.4\WebAppBuilderForArcGIS\client\stemapp\widgets directory.

Should look like this....

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

MichaelRobb — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:50:38 GMT

The widget you are highlighting was not included in WABde 2.4, however the direction (link) to the JavaScript was extremely helpful.

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

ShitalDhakal__GISP — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 16:29:37 GMT

Hi William,

Is this tool compatible with Web AppBuilder Dev edition 2.1 or below?

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

AliBarakat — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 06:27:31 GMT

Hello,

I was going through this app: ArcGIS Web Application

If you open the Situational Awareness widget you can see there is a report button that allows the user to generate beautiful reports.

Do you guys know where we can get the code for this?

or at least the person who did this app.

Thank you.

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

ShitalDhakal__GISP — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:21:18 GMT

I think the 'Situational awareness' widget is now available as out-of-the-box tool in Web AppBuilder. Here is the screenshot from WAB 2.4 Developer Edition.

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

johnbrosowsky — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:46:44 GMT

Those are nice tools, but not reports. Reports are like 8.5 x 11 PDF pages you can print out that shows charts, graphs, tables, maps, populated into a pre-configured template.

The dashboard template for WAB is terrific, especially with all of the new charts and infographic types. Now what it needs is not any more chart types, but rather a WAB widget enabling printed reports from a WAB Dashboard.

Somewhat confusing is that there is a WAB dashboard template, not to be confused with the new Operations Dashboard which looks extremely similar but seems not as customizable.

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

AliBarakat — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 10:17:03 GMT

Hi Shital,

yes the widget is available out of the box, but my question was regarding the report function inside the widget.

i guess this function was added by code

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

KevinMWright13 — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:47:51 GMT

Survey123 now has the ability to create your own report templates using Microsoft Word . It's a really great option that I *HOPE* gets adopted by other Apps on AGOL, specifically WAB. It's stil in Beta and has some issues related to the map and the fact that it can only report on a single feature at a time - Thus no reports that would include graphs or charts from data across features. But a great start!

I see that in earlier comments from Esri that updated reporting functionality was planned to be part of a recent release. I don't see anything new related to that in the most recent update (September 2018).

Esri, would you please provide an update on when we will be able create custom report templates in Web AppBuilder?

Thanks again for a great product!

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

ScottBeckstrom — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 11:43:40 GMT

Have you checked out Geocortex Reporting? It's very capable and likely provides the functionality you're looking for in Web AppBuilder.

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

berniejconnors — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:07:06 GMT

I'm with jtby on this - "Reports are like 8.5 x 11 PDF pages you can print out that shows charts, graphs, tables, maps, populated into a pre-configured template."

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

KaraUtter — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 21:35:09 GMT

I don't believe any of the above widgets are exactly the type of reporting that the original post is referring to. The original post refers to the ability to create a printable report, such as a parcel summary.

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

DavidForbuss1 — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 21:46:19 GMT

We've been mostly using Crystal Reports and connecting to our enterprise gdb via a odbc, but it seems you can't do that with hosted features (such as the ones created in with Survey123). A widget like the OP suggested would be a great addition in my opinion.

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

KevinMWright13 — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:38:14 GMT

Hi Esri (specifically ArcGIS Online Product Managers),

Any update on this for ArcGIS online? I've spoken to several Esri reps about this over the past year and was really hoping for some type of configurable reporting tool (like there is in Business/Community Analyst) to be included in Web AppBuilder and Operations Dashboard.

REALLY hoping to hear from Esri soon. Our workflow is incomplete without it.

Thanks again,

Kevin Wright

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

deleted-user-1_r2dgYuILKY — Fri, 10 May 2019 17:06:39 GMT

I would really like to be able to generate textual reports based on results from the District Lookup and Near Me widgets.

Re: Web AppBuilder Reporting Widget

WesleyCollins — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:43:34 GMT

There seems to be, as usual, a total disconnect between what ESRI delivers and what their clients actually need to produce deliverables to their clients efficiently. When is there going to be a widget that I can report a simple sheet of paper based on a a selected feature? Because following about 3 years of threads people keep requesting it and there is still no solution.