topic Integration Custom Widget in Web AppBuilder Custom Widgets Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/web-appbuilder-custom-widgets-questions/integration-custom-widget/m-p/815875#M6996 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi WABers</P><P>I am looking to build a custom widget to accept messages from a local desktop C# app and pass those messages to the Data manager to be processed by other custom widgets.</P><P>What I am looking to do is have the widget, load on startup and register some sort of handle for the web app instance with the C# app. Then the C# app at some point down the track could send a message back to the widget using the handle. Don't know if this is technically possible, but thought I would ask to see if anyone knows if this can be done.</P><P>My fall back position would be for the widget to poll a local file for some content placed in it by the C# app, but I would like to avoid the polling approach if possible.</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 04 Jun 2015 06:57:30 GMT MarkTurnbull 2015-06-04T06:57:30Z Integration Custom Widget https://community.esri.com/t5/web-appbuilder-custom-widgets-questions/integration-custom-widget/m-p/815875#M6996 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi WABers</P><P>I am looking to build a custom widget to accept messages from a local desktop C# app and pass those messages to the Data manager to be processed by other custom widgets.</P><P>What I am looking to do is have the widget, load on startup and register some sort of handle for the web app instance with the C# app. Then the C# app at some point down the track could send a message back to the widget using the handle. Don't know if this is technically possible, but thought I would ask to see if anyone knows if this can be done.</P><P>My fall back position would be for the widget to poll a local file for some content placed in it by the C# app, but I would like to avoid the polling approach if possible.</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 04 Jun 2015 06:57:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/web-appbuilder-custom-widgets-questions/integration-custom-widget/m-p/815875#M6996 MarkTurnbull 2015-06-04T06:57:30Z Re: Integration Custom Widget https://community.esri.com/t5/web-appbuilder-custom-widgets-questions/integration-custom-widget/m-p/815876#M6997 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I don't know how does the browser app handle native app message, but maybe webdriver can give some help.</P><P></P><P>This is a link about Selenium webdriver: <A href="http://www.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/" title="http://www.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/">Selenium WebDriver</A> </P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 05 Jun 2015 02:27:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/web-appbuilder-custom-widgets-questions/integration-custom-widget/m-p/815876#M6997 JunshanLiu 2015-06-05T02:27:58Z