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3 weeks ago
NICK_COG
Occasional Contributor

Hello,

 

With the new June 2026 update, the Date Selector is no longer supporting combination of defined and date selectors. I have lots of users who use the dashboards to get quick numbers for monthly/quarterly/yearly reports, but also like to see events or information from a defined date range. It feels so clunky to separate these out instead of keeping the option to have the combination selector. 

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HollyTorpey_LSA
Frequent Contributor

WHY??? This will make several of my dashboards less functional. Why would the Dashboards team take perfectly good functionality away?

Likewise, the "Add none option" is now gone from category selectors. You can use the new Require Selection switch instead, but there's no way to make no selection the default, so now everything opens with the first option selected by default (definitely not my desired behavior). 

Add to that the fact that end users still can't sort table columns (a quick community search shows at least four ideas submitted for this basic functionality starting in 2022 with over 200 combined kudos).

I am beyond frustrated. Are they just trying to drive us all to Experience Builder? I have developed several EB apps as well and I understand its value and flexibility, but for many uses cases, Dashboards is just a faster, simpler option to stand up a functional web app. For a while it has seemed like Dashboards was being neglected, but now it seems like they're actively dismantling a perfectly good product. 

- Holly
CMSchelde
Regular Contributor

Holly -

Agree 100% with your point. Esri, please bring this functionality back. Thanks!

ScottHill
New Contributor

Another thing I have experience with my dashboards is it reset filters on indicators and charts and changed the attribute labels with unit prefixes. Currently trying to figure out the date selector for all of our dashboards but that is currently not working great. I have over 200 indicators and charts that were triggered off the combination filters.

MartinCopping
Esri Contributor

Thanks for the feedback, @HollyTorpey_LSA  - I appreciate your frustration with the changes and updates, but please rest assured that Esri is NOT dismantling ArcGIS Dashboards! The team is working hard to address incoming BUGS and will provide clarification on the modernization of Selectors and other capabilities in ArcGIS Dashboards.

Martin Copping
Product Manager, ArcGIS Online - Dashboards
HollyTorpey_LSA
Frequent Contributor

Hi Martin, thanks for the response. You've always been very receptive to feedback at the Dev Summit, so I feel a little bad for venting here. My frustration stems from the fact that I really rely on Dashboards and I want to see it continue to improve. I'm glad to hear that it's not on the chopping block.

- Holly
Markbe_utco
Regular Contributor

Bump the topic.  So is this a BUG or a modernization?

This is a key function on the dashboards for all my users.  On a similar vent, I don't think I have experienced so many bugs in an AGOL update, ever.  Every major app that I use: Survey123, Experience Builder and now Dashboards have been messed up or needed to find workarounds for things that were previously running smoothly.

EllenLester
Occasional Contributor

I'm confused by how this change is supposed to work. It seems like we'll need to add two date filters to all our dashboards. With this setup, it's very easy for a user to select conflicting dates and then nothing displays. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

Philip_Ohlinger
Regular Contributor

Yes, this has broken the way our dashboards work now. The combination picker was great, why would you change that? We have a dashboard setup for our fire calls. When the user opens the dashboard, it defaults to "This Year." I had a few predefined options setup, but then users could also select whatever date range they wanted. It worked perfectly.

Now, to achieve the same result, I would need to add two separate date pickers. But the real catch is if the user has set the predefined date selector to "This Year" and then goes to the calendar to pick dates outside of this year, no data will show up. They would first have to clear the predefined date selector. This is very convoluted and is going to confuse our users, especially when they were used to this working just fine.

On top of this, another one of our filters is not working and I can't figure out a workaround. We have a field in our call data for "non-emergent" calls. If it is non-emergent, it's marked "Yes" otherwise its left blank. Before, by default when the dashboard opened, it excluded all calls marked yes in that field. This no longer works because if i keep the filter on "Single" you cant un-check the option. And if I put the filter on "Multiple" i can uncheck it, but then it doesn't default to having it checked when the dashboard is opened. 

I don't understand changing the fundamental way some of the filters and selectors work is an update. You shouldn't be introducing an update that breaks a live dashboard without there being another way to achieve the goal, and without letting users know about these changes.

RyanStad
Occasional Contributor

I'm frustrated by this change as well.  I'd love to know the reason behind it.

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