topic Re: Activate help link on home made widget in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Questions

Activate help link on home made widget

MathieuVILLEMONT1 — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 02:18:23 GMT

Generic web appbuilder widgets setting page displays a link to access the help.

However home made widgets do not display such link.

My solution is the following hack :

_help: '<my own help url>',

startup: function () {
     ...
     dojoQuery(".help-link").forEach(lang.hitch(this, function (node, index) {
          domStyle.set(node, "display", "inline-block");
          domAttr.set(node, "href", this._help);
     }));
}

Any other suggestions welcome.

Ce message a été modifié par : Mathieu VILLEMONT My initial post did not include the hack 😕

Re: Activate help link on home made widget

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 02:18:25 GMT

Mathieu,

I have discussed this with the development team last year at the Dev Summit. that custom widget developers need the ability to add help links to custom widgets. I informed them of the Hack I am having to use in all my widgets.

setConfig:function(config){
      //hack the 'Learn more about this widget link'
      setTimeout(function(){
        var helpLink = dojo.query('.help-link');
        helpLink[0].href = 'http://gis.calhouncounty.org/WAB/V1.2/widgets/eSearch/help/eSearch_Help.htm';
        html.setStyle(helpLink[0],'display','block');
      },600);

Re: Activate help link on home made widget

MathieuVILLEMONT1 — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:14:37 GMT

Robert,

Indeed because the <a> is there anyway it would be nice to simply set it with a variable instead of hacking the DOM.

Nice help page btw. Did you use a template ? Markdown maybe ?

Re: Activate help link on home made widget

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:38:33 GMT

Mathieu,

No I just took what esri had for their widget help docs (at one point in the past) and tweaked it from my needs.