topic Re: Customize 'Home' widget for each user in Web AppBuilder Custom Widgets Questions

Customize 'Home' widget for each user

RogerF — Tue, 17 May 2016 21:03:03 GMT

I need to develop a widget which can save extent(home) of webmap for each logged in user in database table. So whenever user clicks on 'Home' button, saved extent from database table can be extracted and webmap needs to be zoomed. Is there any widget that does that ? What is the way to save data from javascript ?

Re: Customize 'Home' widget for each user

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 18 May 2016 17:19:25 GMT

I would take a look at Larry Stout 's custom apps Larrys Custom WAB Widgets and More

If you check out his live preview and go to the Wha't's new page, you will see a user's preference reference

which might be what you are looking for.

I know Larry has changed jobs and is not necessarily working on this project anymore, and it may need some tweaks to work with the latest WAB, but he has quite a bit of information available on using his custom environment, so worth a look.

For this and other custom widgets, you may want to checkout my Web AppBuilder Developer Edition - Customization Resource List I typically keep it up to date, in not necessarily well formatted due to limited time.

Re: Customize 'Home' widget for each user

RogerF — Thu, 19 May 2016 21:04:27 GMT

Thank you for you response Rebecca.

My requirement is to save that information in database table. Is there any widget which saves and retrieves information from database table (sql/oracle) ?

Re: Customize 'Home' widget for each user

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Thu, 19 May 2016 21:40:32 GMT

Not that I can think of offhand, but that doesn't necessarily mean there isn't on out there...or something that could be adapted.

Re: Customize 'Home' widget for each user

RogerF — Wed, 25 May 2016 17:25:02 GMT

Thanks Rebecca. After discussing it with my team, we have decided to develop a web service which will save app and map states information (extent, definition query, graphics etc) in database.