topic Re: What widget do you want most in Web AppBuilder Custom Widgets Questions

What widget do you want most

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:45:35 GMT

I have been working on a few custom widgets for the Web App Builder, but I would like some input as to what widget/functionality people are wanting most.

The WAB has several great OTB widgets but what (realistic) widgets are missing and would be (in your opinion) great to have?

Re: What widget do you want most

TimWitt2 — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:46:41 GMT

Wish I had access to the beta, I might be able to tell you then

Re: What widget do you want most

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:47:28 GMT

Did you not request access?..

Re: What widget do you want most

TimWitt2 — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:49:04 GMT

I did, but I only have a free developer account. You need one of the paid accounts to be able to get access.

Re: What widget do you want most

RAVENELJulien — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 13:58:51 GMT

Hi Robert,

I use a lot of your Flex widgets.

Thanks a lot for your great job.

By order of preference for me :

1. Enhanced search widget

2. Identify widget

3. Enhanced Draw widget

4. Basemap Fader-Enhanced Map Switcher widget

5. Export Map widget

6. Google Street View widget

7. Enhanced Bookmark widget

8. Enhanced locate widget

...

Re: What widget do you want most

JssrRR — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:03:20 GMT

Hi Robert,

Can we have a

1. Buffer a point widget that allows the user to put in a value for distance

and would be great if it can even select features within the buffer distance!!

Thanks.

Re: What widget do you want most

MichaelSu1 — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:48:19 GMT

An interactive filter widget would be super useful. You can select a field, pull all values from the server, and let user select one and then dynamically generate a definition query and apply it.

Thanks

Mike

Re: What widget do you want most

deleted-user-yA_w_FC9FKe5 — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:27:28 GMT

I like the idea of an interactive filter as well. I thought that was going to be what the query filter was going to do. I thought when it was asking for unique values that it was going to show the users a drop down box to choose what to query by. It would be great if it did a multi select box. So they could select five states to highlight.

I also saw the inbetween for value and thought it would allow users to select between two different values. For example select all states where population was between 1,000,000 and 5,000,000. Would be great if it created an inbetween slider

And to be super awesome it would be nice if it created its own layer that went into the data grid. This would be the best feature ever!

Re: What widget do you want most

BrianLomas — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:58:54 GMT

I'm wanting a simple measure tool that will work on a phone. The default widget doesn't work very well on a phone.

Re: What widget do you want most

BenAller — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:37:32 GMT

I'd like to see an improved measure widget as well, with more options to configure measurement text font, line/area measurement symbology, and length/area units, etc. We've been using http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=36a80475e5d740279854398d3f7b6d01‌ for our flex apps which allows us to see measurements on the line segments that we draw rather than in the measurement tool dialog. We use projected data so that's also a consideration in the development of measure widget.

Re: What widget do you want most

GreggCornetski — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:57:11 GMT

Filter widget/functionality like that already built into the AGO Javascript map viewer: where in the latter you go Content->click the drop down arrow next to the layer->context menu opens with Filter option->Filter dialog opens and enables end user to create|execute|edit their own query on a series of expressions.

The WAB Query widget looks similar to the AGO Filter tool, but former doesn't allow end user to build their own query (as far as I can tell). Moreover, the WAB Query widget at beta 2 is so buggy and unusable, I'm not able to make sense of it.

At WAB beta 2, seems ESRI could just take the AGO Filter tool and add it to WAB (and even replace most of the Query widget code with AGO Filter code).

Re: What widget do you want most

USFS_AGOLAdministrator — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:07:31 GMT

A widget that allows us to display attributes from one-to-many related tables in a popup window. In addition to configuring the popup window with attributes from the layer in the webmap, this widget would allow the user to configure the popup window to display attributes from related tables. So you have a layer being displayed in your webmap that is related to several different tables. This widget would allow the user to configure which attributes from which related tables to display in the popup, along with the attributes from the original layer itself.

Re: What widget do you want most

GreggCornetski — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:16:47 GMT

It is odd the WAB popup doesn't even have the Show Related Records tool already built into the AGO Javascript Map Viewer.

Re: What widget do you want most

USFS_AGOLAdministrator — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:17:57 GMT

The filter template in AGOL is about useless if you have a large number of filters. First enhancement to this template would be to allow a drop-down box to define the field name to filter on, so the user doesn't have to type it in. Second would be to add a check mark next to each filter. This check mark would then enable that filter, so you can test different scenarios in your data. Currently every filter must be evaluated in order for it to run, which is very cumbersome when you have a large number of filters to evaluate.

Re: What widget do you want most

USFS_AGOLAdministrator — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:19:56 GMT

I wasn't aware of a Show Related Records tool already built into the AGO Javascript map viewer. Which template is it a part of?

Re: What widget do you want most

GreggCornetski — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:25:06 GMT

Show Related Records appears at the bottom of the popup window when you click a feature. On click Show Related Records the related records are displayed in a table.

Re: What widget do you want most

MattSheehan — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:40:47 GMT

Robert, wondered if you could post the feedback from this discussion somewhere. A list a preferred widgets. Thx

Re: What widget do you want most

JeffPace — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:47:51 GMT

1. Table of Contents

2. see #1

Re: What widget do you want most

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:51:39 GMT

Jeff,

What feature(s) of the LayerList Widget are missing in your TOC widget desire?

Re: What widget do you want most

DavidColey — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:52:58 GMT

Robert-

I would agree with Jeff-