topic Re: WAB-Query customisation in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Questions

WAB-Query customisation

MatthewWeed — Mon, 04 May 2015 06:30:28 GMT

Hi Robert,

I was going through the document which you have published for configuring WAB. I wanted to further customise my application by having a login page and later open user based authorised maps(layer definition) thereafter.

I am finsing it difficult to understand complete architecture and page flows of the WAB. Kindly guide me how to preoceed further on this.

Thanks,

Tanya Bisen

Re: WAB-Query customisation

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Mon, 04 May 2015 15:46:52 GMT

Tanya, check out Web AppBuilder Developer Edition – Customization Resource List for a list of many resources to get you started.

Also, you may want to remove your personal email from your post (you can edit your post). Responses will come through this site and the email registered with the username you used to post the question.

Re: WAB-Query customisation

MatthewWeed — Tue, 05 May 2015 04:44:50 GMT

Hi Rebecca,

Thanks for your response.

I tried going thru the links suggested by you infact the live application samples developed thru WAB are great.

How do i change the home change as shown in different examples.e.g. In your neighbourhood application.

Thanks,

tanya

Re: WAB-Query customisation

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Tue, 05 May 2015 04:56:43 GMT

Hi Tanya, I'm glad the link was helpful. I'm actually not the author of any of he live samples, just trying to help others find what is available.

i 'm not exactly sure what change you are looking at. It may help if you can include an image of what you are wanting to do and include it here. If you don't have tools available for the snapshot, maybe a link to the neighborhood application you are looking at and what part of the home page you are wanting to change. are you maybe referring to a "splash screen"?

Re: WAB-Query customisation

MatthewWeed — Tue, 05 May 2015 05:14:42 GMT

Hi Rebecca,

I found the the file responsible for customising loading page of my application.I will try cusomisng it and get back to you incase I face any issues. I will start wioth simple customisation of my loading page and probably later try to add login screen to it. I might need you guidance withh this. Later once the user logins somehow I need to customise my map getting displayed in WAB based on user roles e.eg. If he is a Territory Manager, he should be able to view only his territory map. I know this is possible thriugh layer definition but how do I achieve it thrugh WAB as it accepts webmao and initialises the application.

This is the link to the neighbourhood webiste. In Your Neighborhood

Re: WAB-Query customisation

MatthewWeed — Tue, 05 May 2015 09:39:27 GMT

Hi Rebecaa,

I was trying to deply my application onto my webserver but while testing the proxy page I am geting below error:

{error: {code: 500,message:"Unable to connect to the remote server http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/?f=pjson"}}

We do have our corporate proxy running.. Do I need to specify ANYTHING DIFFERENT IN PROXY.CONFIG FILE.

Re: WAB-Query customisation

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 05 May 2015 12:32:02 GMT

Manish,

The "http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/?f=pjson" error is one you will always receive when the JS api checks a server for CORS. this is an ignorable error. When the api finds that CORs is not supported then it uses a different means to do its work. You can find more info on CORs by using this link:

ArcGIS API for JavaScript - CORs

Re: WAB-Query customisation

MatthewWeed — Wed, 06 May 2015 07:58:37 GMT

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the information. I will explain you about my requirement.

I have configured my WAB using Arcgis organisational account. I have already created one application using WAB and after downloading the code when I ry to import my project into Visual Studio-2012 while running the application it says access denied.

As per my understanding there is some proxy issue which I need to follow and therefore I was trying to configure the prxy page for my application.

Kindly advise how to run my downloaded application into an IDE. Attaching screenshot for your reference.

Thanks,

Tanya

Re: WAB-Query customisation

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 06 May 2015 11:59:11 GMT

Tanya,

Honestly I have never even considered trying to bring a WAB website into Visual Studio. I have always done my development in Brackets (a free JS IDE). I am not sure where to begin in helping you with the VS issue.

Re: WAB-Query customisation

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 06 May 2015 14:17:46 GMT

Tanya, I would have to agree that Brackets is straight forward and free http://brackets.io

When you downloaded the app from WAB, where did you put the files? Also, are you downloading WAB from Online or from the Developers edition?

Have you tried running the web page in a web browser? It's probably good to test to see if it's running using the default setup before starting to customize it more.

Re: WAB-Query customisation

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 06 May 2015 17:08:41 GMT

Tanya, look at Robert's explanation of his pattern for developing

Re: Debugging WAB App in Visual Studio 2012

The title suggested Visual Studio, but Robert explains his use with Brackets.

Re: WAB-Query customisation

MatthewWeed — Thu, 07 May 2015 04:07:56 GMT

Hi Rebecca/Robert.

Thanks a ton for your quick responses... I am using developer edition of WAB. As suggested by you both I will try and debug the code using Brackets IDE and get back to you incase I get any issues.

Thanks,

Tanya

Re: WAB-Query customisation

MatthewWeed — Thu, 07 May 2015 04:26:48 GMT

Hi Rebecaa,

my major concern for using VS IDE was to understand the complete flow of pages of widgtes used in WAB. As explained to you earlier since I need to add login screen as my starting page of my application, I need to be sure which is the page in use so that I can go further for customisation.

With Brackets I will try how much I can achieve and incase you have any other resolution, kindly let me know.

Thanks,

Tanya

Re: WAB-Query customisation

MatthewWeed — Fri, 22 May 2015 05:16:05 GMT

Hi Rebecca,

I was going through Do you have to use AGOL to use WAB? thread. I managed to incorporate the login screen and then load the webmap based on authentication. The above thread says incase we want to incorporate our ARCGIS Server services in WAB we need to make changes in config.json file.

I tried doing he same but my map doesnt seem to load i.e. WAB is failing to load the layers. If I provide the "itemid", it seems to work fine.I want to apply layer definition to the dynamic map service I load, Can you please help me out in how to go about it. Do i need to make any changes in any .js files.

Thanks,

Tanya

Re: WAB-Query customisation

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 22 May 2015 09:59:14 GMT

Tanya,

You will notice that there is a big bold statement on that thread that the thread was for WAB when it was is Beta and is no longer relevant to the released WAB.

Re: WAB-Query customisation

MatthewWeed — Mon, 25 May 2015 08:33:06 GMT

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the information. One more query,I was trying to configure LocalLayer widget with the default widget configuration in my application.

I followed the steps as mentioned in the readme file and have kept default ESRI layers in the cinfiguration file but when i run my application layers fail to load in the layerlist.

I made necessary changes in the config.json and LayerInfo.js file for Mapservice.

Do i need to further remove my itemid ?? Incase you have any other doc/link for the widget configuration,kindly share it with me.

Thanks,

Tanya

Re: WAB-Query customisation

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Mon, 25 May 2015 15:37:11 GMT

Tanya, it's been a couple months since I wrote this, but check out Tips for using the custom LocalLayer widget with WAB-Dev edition And Tips (LocalLayer widgets) for more customization and Updating (may help with others too)

Also, if you haven't checked TAPAS DAS post yet, there us a lot of good info here Installing Robert’s Enhanced Search Widget for the Web AppBuilder The title is misleading....much more in the doc than just the enhanced search widget.

Re: WAB-Query customisation

MatthewWeed — Tue, 26 May 2015 06:07:23 GMT

Rebecca,

I am unable to configure custom widgets onto WAB. Basically I am trying to configure LocalLayer widget/Enhanced Search widget onto my existing application. I have gone through all the links as mentined by you and followed the steps but still unable to see the widhets in my widget pool. Attaching screenshots for your reference. How do i start my node.js server as I have tried restarting them manually but the repository items doesnt seems to get refreshed. I want to add these widgtes in my existing application.

Re: WAB-Query customisation

LemaoWu — Tue, 26 May 2015 09:56:38 GMT

Hi Manish,

I think you need specify the position property for the widget. And if you want to add the widget to WAB, the config.json file to edit is in this folder: \arcgis-web-appbuilder-1.1\client\stemapp\predefined-apps\default\. If you want to add the widget to an existing app, the config.json of the app is the place to edit.