topic Re: Enhanced Search Widget - Find points within selection in Web AppBuilder Custom Widgets Questions

Enhanced Search Widget - Find points within selection

NatalieScott4 — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 06:34:47 GMT

Hi,

I'm currently deploying the Enhanced Search widget in a developer version of Web App Builder and am having some trouble getting the functionality I need.

I have a layer of polygons (area boundaries) and a set of points (crash locations). I need users to select all the crashes that occur in a specific area polygon. Currently I can select the polygon (select by value), and I can select crashes that occur in a hand-drawn extent (select by shape), but I can't combine the two to say 'select the crashes that are inside the selected polygon'.

Looking at the help doc here I can see that it should be possible. The symbol outlined in red should be coming up.. but it's not. Yes, in the 'Edit Graphical Search Options' link I have checked the 'eLocate Widget Graphics' checkbox.

I feel like I'm missing something very obvious... any suggestions? I'm using the latest version of both WAB and the eSearch widget.

Many thanks,

Natalie

Re: Enhanced Search Widget - Find points within selection

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:54:19 GMT

Natalie,

The workflow you would use is to select the polygon area "by value" and then click the "by Spatial" tab and choose your crashes layer from the dropdown there, and then the "entirely contained in" or "intersected by" buttons.

Re: Enhanced Search Widget - Find points within selection

NatalieScott4 — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 23:12:25 GMT

Thanks Robert, I knew the functionality would be there somewhere. I appreciate your widgets, they make life much easier!

Re: Enhanced Search Widget - Find points within selection

smevans88 — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:00:40 GMT

Robert,

We have created a gp tool(Python) to select features from multiple layers, export to individual CSV files, then combine them as separate worksheets in an Excel workbook. Works great locally, then after publishing, and bringing into WAB for Poral, it errors out due to limitations of the WAB Portal environment.

Is this a functionality that can be used in your Enhanced Search widget?

Scott

Re: Enhanced Search Widget - Find points within selection

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:48:05 GMT

@smevans88 Scott your exact workflow is not supported in the eSearch widget. You can select multiple layers and export results as csv, but that is the extent of it.

Re: Enhanced Search Widget - Find points within selection

smevans88 — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:33:33 GMT

Thanks Robert. We are now exploring some other options. I will keep you posted on any progress.

Thanks