topic Re: Identify widget for Instant App Web Edtor in ArcGIS Web Editor Questions

Identify widget for Instant App Web Edtor

jakek — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:41:00 GMT

Identify widget missing from the Instant app Web Editor (Beta). Can you add this option to the Instant App?

Re: Identify widget for Instant App Web Edtor

CraigGillgrass — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:44:44 GMT

hello @jakek can you clarify what you mean by Identify widget? Is this a widget in another Instant App template? Or another Esri web app? Or something new?

Re: Identify widget for Instant App Web Edtor

JessicaSchneider — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:27:58 GMT

I just came here to ask the same. I would assume when you click on a line and the popup comes up? A feature you may not want to edit, just look at the data?

Re: Identify widget for Instant App Web Edtor

CraigGillgrass — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:35:39 GMT

In Web Editor and the Instant App, you can access the popup through the Selection dialog, for any selected feature. We have not implemented a way to access the popup without selecting the feature, as we wanted to focus on editing interaction and pan.

We haven't received a lot of feedback to implement a "popup" or "identify" state to Web Editor or the Instant App but could consider it if we get more demand.