topic Re: Search in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Questions

Search

mattstutts — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 18:12:12 GMT

A colleague has put together a web app using Web AppBuilder and is simply configuring options (no coding.) His app has uses a bunch of hosted feature layers that are public. However, the Search widget is acting oddly. If the user is signed into AGOL, the widget shows up. If they aren't, the widget does not appear on the map. I've tried this in various browsers and that doesn't seem to matter. I can't find anything online suggesting a user needs to log into an account to use this tool. And the tool works fine (and appears) when logged into AGOL. Not sure what's what...

Re: Search

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:58:03 GMT

Matt,

Can you take a screenshot of the errors that are likely present in the browsers web console and share here.

Re: Search

mattstutts — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:27:36 GMT

Absolutely. Keep in mind...this isn't my app. I didn't configure it. I see there's an error here specific to the search widget but at first glance, I'm not sure what is the issue.

WebApp link (in dev). Try it logged in and logged out of AGOL.

Re: Search

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:50:33 GMT

Matt,

So based on that error the Search Widget is not getting access to one or more featurelayer sources that were configured in the search widget. So you need to look at the config_Search.json and see what featurelayers they configured and then determine why those are inaccessible.

Re: Search

mattstutts — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:52:45 GMT

Is that what the 'null' is referring to? yeah, I'll see if he'll let me have edit access to his app to go through it.... Thanks for your feedback and I'll write again after I inspect it closer.

Re: Search

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:54:31 GMT

Matt,

Is that what the 'null' is referring to?

Yes, some featurelayer source they added.

Re: Search

mattstutts — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:45:26 GMT

Yeah, so it looks like under the Search Widget's layer source for one of his layers, it's set to a service URL that isn't actually part of the underlying web map. I'm going to ask him to set it to the service URL that his web map actually points to and we'll see if that fixes it.

I probably should have mentioned earlier that this is all hosted by AGOL. He's not using the developer edition or hosting locally. I'm not a full-time developer but given that, I'm not sure how I can browse config_search.json.