topic Re: Smart Editor Widget - will not work with attribute driven symbols? in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Questions

Smart Editor Widget - will not work with attribute driven symbols?

DanAllen — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:49:04 GMT

I have a hosted feature service in an arcgis.com map. When it is set to single symbol it shows up in my smart editor feature template pick list in Web AppBuilder. When I change the symbology of my layer to draw based on the values in an attribute field (ex. inspection complete = Yes/No), it disappears from the smart editor widget, and you can't make any edits to the layer. I have tried removing the widget and adding it again, and tried every single check box in the settings of the widget, but it wont work. As soon as i switch back to single symbol, it shows up in the smart editor widget again.

Is this a known issue, or is there some configuration change I need to make?

Re: Smart Editor Widget - will not work with attribute driven symbols?

DanAllen — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:29:26 GMT

So I figured out the problem. I published this service to ArcGIS.com originally as a single symbol. Once in ArcGIS.com I changed it to attribute driven symbols. So web appbuilder was confused over which feature template to use for editing. The solution is to add your hosted feature service to a new blank arcgis.com map, set the attribute driven sybmols the way you want them, then hit Edit / Manage and update the feature template. As soon as i did this, the smart editor widget in web appbuilder came back to life and showed all my symbols for editing.

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/share-maps/manage-feature-templates.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_AF3434562C3442F393C942E8952A3673

Re: Smart Editor Widget - will not work with attribute driven symbols?

DerekPhyn — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 03:27:19 GMT

Thanks Dan Allen, This is a weird one. I had the same issue in that the original service was published in the process of creating a S123 form using S123 Connect and the resulting hosted feature layer only had a single symbol by default. Once I changed that symbol to attribute driven in the webmap I wanted to use the Smart Editor widget in the app using that webmap just showed an empty circle symbol instead of the attribute driven symbols I wanted. While I was skeptical of your solution I tried it and, waddaya know? It works! Cheers!

Re: Smart Editor Widget - will not work with attribute driven symbols?

RyanBohan — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:11:22 GMT

Wish I read this hours ago! Works great, stupid stupid bug