topic How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup? in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Questions

How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

MelanieHammond1 — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 21:23:24 GMT

I've seen several threads but it doesn't seem like anyone has come up with a good solution. My apologies if it is out there and I simply missed it.

I'm sure I'm like many users who created a map, published to server, shared to ArcGIS Online, but only shared internally and not PUBLIC. When I made my Web Map in AGOL I did the same thing. I shared it internally with some groups but did not share publically. I did the exact same thing with the app that I created in AGOL for use in WAB (what gives me the App ID).

Once I built my app in Web AppBuilder Dev edition I deployed to my Web Server. Site opens fine but asks for AGOL sign in. How do I configure this so that it does not throw that dialog and allows viewing?

I've tried following all of the proxy docs and the threads I have found and edited the proxy as well as the config in my app. Still no luck. Why is this so difficult? Why is it not on the Esri site somewhere?

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 03:00:52 GMT

If your services in AGOL are not public, I'm not sure that you can get away from the AGOL login (but I haven't tried a AGOL token or proxy), but if you have services from ArcGIS Server, a pricy should work, if you have the app hosted on your local web server. The application you created on AGOL to get the AppID to register WAB should not be causing any issues.

i would check out Summary of ArcGIS Server SSL Issues to maybe get some ideas about dealing with SSL/secure service issues. Also, if you haven't seen it already Web AppBuilder Developer Edition - Customization Resource List which also includes a link to Using the Web AppBuilder which is a very detailed document on many WAB issues.

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

MelanieHammond1 — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:05:48 GMT

Not sure if I am following. The only way to add a map to Web AppBuilder is from an AGOL web map. So my app contains that map which is not public. Nor is the app that I created in order to get the app ID to even start Web AppBuilder. Just wanting to know if that being the case means I will always get the popup? Surely Esri would not design things that way.

I'll continue digging through the documentation to see if I can find an answer. So far none of the proxy things I have tried have worked.

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

TimWitt2 — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:12:52 GMT

Melanie,

the webapp builder can only be used with an AGOL map. Which means to prevent the pop-up is making the AGOL map and its layers public.

Tim

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

MelanieHammond1 — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:46:37 GMT

Wow. That seems insane to me. Means I can't create any apps for my internal users. I'm going to reach out to Esri.

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:17:10 GMT

There are ways to use your own local services, and not use a AGOL map, look at LocalLayerWidget and AccessifizrWidget and the other links I listed above.

WAB does require access to a basemap from AGOL, (which many times will be public anyway), but if you have your own local services with ArcGIS Server, you can have a bit more flexibily with internal access, especially if you don't upload your developer edition WAB back to AGOL, and instead host it on your own network (e.g., with IIS)

Once it is strictly on AGOL, with non public services, I think you are restricted to the "named-user" restrictions, and therefore it's probably going to ask for login. However, if you find a workaround from esri, please post a summary. Thanks.

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

JonathanQuinn — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 17:16:26 GMT

I'd suggest you just make your webmap and web app public, (share with everyone). If your services are internal, that means that external users won't be able to reach your services, so it won't matter if they open your webmap or web app. They won't be able to see your content. By making your webmap and web apps public, your internal users will be able to open them without logging in and will still be able to see your services as they're in your internal network.

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

MelanieHammond1 — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 21:07:36 GMT

I submitted a ticket to Esri and was told that basically a map on AGOL must be shared publically to prevent the AGOL sign in from popping up. Sure hope they are planning on allowing a map from Server soon or else the whole WAB becomes fairly useless to us. I'll update if I hear something different.

And Jonathon I like your suggestion but we have some services that will need to be public and others that don't. I will think on that some more and see what we might do with that approach. We actually have that in play now, but wanted to move away from that. I hate the thought of multiple maps/apps published and made public and users opening but seeing no data. Just not a very clean approach.

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

C_EHoward — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:29:19 GMT

send me a PM and I will forward you a workflow I have that will help you do this. I had the same issue and had to push Esri and the several analysts assigned to me to see this through.

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

NartTamash — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:48:16 GMT

Could you please publish that workflow in here, or share it with me as well?

I am having a similar problem, the only difference is I am using Portal (10.3.1) and WAB 1.2 Dev Edition. I have a public app that works on top of a public map with many public services, however there are some layers that are restricted to certain named users/groups. When an anonymous users accesses the app he gets a 'Please sign in to continue' prompt. If you cancel, the map loads fine without the restricted layers (and if you ok it, it'll have you log in, obviously). I want to get rid of the prompt altogether and just load the app/map without the restricted layers.

Does your workflow apply?

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

C_EHoward — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:42:53 GMT

It did until the inconsistency of having the login screen came back. I am actually working with Esri support again on this matter. Hopefully I will have a resolution that is more permanent this time

But basically my workflow sets the AGOL user name/pass in the proxy and also references the proxy and any secure services in the applications config.json file. Supposedly, the user/pass you use cannot be any AGOL user, it has to be the one that is the content owner. But my issue with a log in screen persists even with a different web map owner/user.

When it works its great and when it doesnt, its frustrating.

You may have more flexibility since you are using the developer edition

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

C_EHoward — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:57:35 GMT

Here is my workflow......apparently there is a new blog post too on using proxies with WAB

Setting up a proxy with Web AppBuilder Developer Edition | Support Services Blog - very similar to my workflow

1. Download the most recent proxy from here (Download ZIP): https://github.com/Esri/resource-proxy
2. Convert it to an application and test that it is working. Use the readme (https://github.com/Esri/resource-proxy/blob/master/DotNet/README.md)

for DotNet in the GitHub repository

3. To proxy an unshared web map add the following serverUrl to the proxy.config: Example below.

<serverUrl url="http://OrgName.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items"

username = "UserName"

password = "password"

matchAll = "true"

4. Add a proxy rule to your WAB application in the config.json file to use the proxy when going to get the web map. Example Below.

"httpProxy":{

"useProxy": true,

"alwaysUseProxy": false,

"url" "http://ProxyServerUrl/DotNet/proxy.ashx",

"rules": [{

"urlPrefix": "http://OrgName.maps.arcgis.com",

"proxyUrl": "http://ProxyServerUrl/DotNet/proxy.ashx"

}]

}

5. Next, add proxy rules for secure services in the proxy.config file: Example Below.

<serverUrl url = "http://ArcGisServer.domain.com/arcgis/rest/services"

matchAll = "true"

username = "UserName"

password = "password"

6. Add a second rule to the config.json file for the WAB application to go get this service when the app request it, note the syntax for multiple rules:

Example:

"rules":[{

"urlPrefix": "http://OrgName.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items",

"proxyUrl": "http://ProxyServerUrl/DotNet/proxy.ashx"

{

"urlPrefix": "http://OrgName.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items",

"proxyUrl": "http://ProxyServerUrl/DotNet/proxy.ashx"

}]

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

MegPeterson — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:09:27 GMT

This thread was invaluable to me. Got rid of the sign-in.

Internal ONLY Web Map Sharing Issues

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

C_EHoward — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:07:49 GMT

I am glad this thread is helping people and making it more clear that you do not have to share all of your AGOL resources in order to have the data and layers display in applications.

I am following my own advice here and still have the intermittent login/no log in required issues. Is anyone else having the issue where sometimes things work and other times it does not? Support seems to be stumped too-- jsut when we think things are fixed, it is not.

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

JonathanQuinn — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:07:29 GMT

It seems unlikely that requesting the same resource or resources wouldn't prompt most times, but sometimes would. Might be difficult to do, but if you run Fiddler or the developer tools while you use your application, you may be able to catch the request that requires a token, and then verify that your proxy is configured to proxy to that resource.

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

C_EHoward — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:31:25 GMT

Thanks for the reply. I went through a lot of these types tests with support yesterday (original analyst & a proxy expert) and everything appeared to be functioning. When I do get the login screen, I can log into the app just fine by merely refreshing the page- which does not make sense to me. It works fine for a time and then login required, but its haphazard. Only thing I can think of is there is some sort of time limit on an token(s) the proxy issues in order to bypass the AGOL credentials. But so far, no dice in consistency. I have another support date this afternoon....hoepfully will get to the bottom of this

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

BrianO_keefe — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:00:30 GMT

It also can depend on which version of the proxy you are using. Make sure to use the most up-to-date version for sure. Finding that information can be half the hassle too.

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

Naga_BilwanthGangarapu — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 23:35:36 GMT

Hi,

I followed the same steps as you said, still no success to skip the message "Please Sign in to continue". I am not the owner of the webmap content. I am having permissions to view the webmap and utilize the same with web app builder development. The issue I am seeing after deploying the app in IIS. Could you please list what kind of access permissions should I required to access the private web map content.

Thanks in advance for your help

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

DanSenner — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:46:54 GMT

Good Morning Jonathan, I came across the forum post below and wanted to follow up with you. I had followed the same set up you said in this forum, prior to doing so our IT department had us reach out to our ESRI rep and confirm that this sharing process was in compliance. Our rep indicated to us that this was and grey area and that it was headed down the wrong path. I have seen many other users saying they are doing this same process to share maps and apps. Are you under the same impression that this process is a grey area and headed down the wrong path regarding compliance? Our IT department determined from our ESRI rep response that we should not follow this process. It would seem to me that maybe others are getting different information because they are already doing this. Any additional information you could provide would be very helpful.

Thanks
Dan

Re: How to prevent deployed app from having ArcGIS Online Sign In popup?

C_EHoward — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:13:10 GMT

Very interesting, Dan. I have not encountered that ("gray area") in any of my (many) discussions with support analyst. Initially some told me the answer was to share with everyone, but when I explained that does not work and I need a solution, we got the proxy situation to work....and its been great. There is often a need to share information with various audiences that are not 'everyone' so there should be opportunity and support for such a workflow. I know we are supposed to embrace the open data 'eveyrone' concept and that largely is OK (people love our open data site), but if I make a story map to show sensitive locations of potential projects, my audience is not 'everyone.' We do not use Portal so this is how we do it.