topic Re: Widget Configuration in Web AppBuilder Custom Widgets Questions

Widget Configuration

HamishKingsbury1 — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 04:33:26 GMT

Hey there

I've made a widget, now I'm trying to setup the customization (to specify URLs ect). I've got the template all set up with the necessary fields ect. How do I now pass these through Setting.js into Widget.js. The documentation on this step is extremely limited and I have found it very unhelpful.

Cheers

Re: Widget Configuration

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 12:31:21 GMT

Hamish,

From inside your Widget.js you can use "this.config.YOURPROPERTY" it's that simple.

Re: Widget Configuration

HamishKingsbury1 — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:10:46 GMT

Thank you Robert!! Your help has been fantastic.

Re: Widget Configuration

HamishKingsbury1 — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:31:39 GMT

So i'm having issues with this, I managed to set a 'test' config value, which will come up in an alert(). But when i change the value in config.json it remains the same. I have restarted the server, used incognito mode, copied the widget from app/4/ to stemapp but none of these show the changed value

EDIT Okay, so I found where I was going wrong, changed the wrong config file. I feel like ESRI really really needs to improve their documentation on this...