ArcGIS Experience Builder 2025 Roadmap

[Jianxia]

Last update on March 21. A new year, a fresh start! Here are features planned for 2025. In addition to migrating features from Web AppBuilder marked in orange, we are working on authoring Arcade expressions in Experience Builder. Keep in mind these features are subject to change please.

[DEWright_CA]

It would be good to see a break-down of the still missing WAB functionality compared to EXB, and the plan to still bring them into parity.

New functionality is good and all; but when you are deprecating a external product and forcing the customers to another and they can't replace it fully this is a hard pill to swallow.

[Jianxia]

@DEWright_CA , thank you for letting us know. Which specific features are you looking for? You may already look at these documents. Listed them just in case.

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-documents/individual-widget-functionality-ma...

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-documents/functionality-matrix-for-web-appbu...

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/web-appbuilder/latest/create-apps/wab-exb-widget-functionality-matrix.htm

[DEWright_CA]

Yes, but even as was noted in the Plenary at the UC was the acknowledgement that they still had gaps in functionality and were not in parity.

We still are not hearing where things are in parity.

[ClayDonaldsonSWCA]

Unfortunate to see yet another delay on batch editing. Hoping Q2 is a high confidence estimate.

[SteveCole]

Hoping the ability to sort the information within the Near Me report based on a field (or fields) will be included when it's released but I'm prepared to be disappointed.

[RobertBurke]

One of the most common questions students have for me during the 2-Day Arcade class is about if Experience Builder will eventually get an Arcade profile.  Great to see it listed in the roadmap!

[ElijahMlawsky]

@Jianxia

I just created a post inquiring about some missing functionality from WAB. Are there known issues with querying related data tables? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-questions/show-related-data-for-large-select...

[JudithWammack]

I was hoping that the draw widget would eventually display measurements in real-time as you draw, rather than only showing them afterward. Is this something that could be implemented? My clients aren't satisfied with the current setup where only a single measurement is shown at a time. They need the ability to display multiple measurements all at once when printing, and it’s important for the measurements to appear while they are drawing, not just after they’ve finished.

[JasonBOCQUET]

Hi @Jianxia happy to see this new roadmap. 

There is no plan to improve the filter widgets ? Like I ask here : https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-questions/2025-plan-to-improve-filters-on-ex...

Have a nice day

[Brian_McLeer]

Thank you @Jianxia. In the Map Layers widget updates, is the request from this community post being addressed? 

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-ideas/expand-grouped-layers-by-default/idc-p...

[AzizaParveen1]

@SteveCole  for the February 2025 release, we are not going to be able to provide runtime sort option for the report in Near Me, but we will be able to honor the sort option settings in the configuration.

Thanks,

Aziza

[SteveCole]

@AzizaParveen1 Ok, so it won't be in the Feb 2025 release but is ESRI implementing this in a subsequent release?

[RodWoodford]

Thank you @Jianxia , could you please include enhancing the Draw widget.  There has been a lot of commentary in this forum about improving its functions, eg display segment lengths on polylines and polygons, allow saving and reloading of drawn graphics, etc. Keep up the good work.

cheers Rod

[TimHaverlandNOAA]

@Jianxia @AzizaParveen1 

Thanks for this roadmap! It's important for us to see where EXB is headed!

One of the essential features of the WAB screening widget is the ability to report data based on unique combinations of attribute values. Due to performance issues with the screening widget, we had to "dice" our large, complicated polygon layers. When we analyze these diced layers, we can get multiple polygons returned with identical attributes, and the screening widget helpfully aggregates these to show the unique attribute combinations.

When we use the Experience builder Near Me tool to analyze a diced polygon layer, the resulting summary can show a unique "group field" value (e.g. GRN_GMM_ADU_MAT), but under that group value can be several duplicate rows showing the diced features. The red tic marks show the duplicate features.

Is the ability to report on unique attribute combinations in the works? This is critical to our use of Experience Builder Near me tool.

[ClintOffutt1]

Hi, is there any plans to enhance the measure widget?  It would be nice if there was either a log, or on screen label for MULTI part measurements, where each leg is individually displayed.  This is a basic operation on any GIS I've used for the past 20 years, whether ArcMap, ArcReader, Geocortex, Google maps, google earth, etc.

It would also be nice if you could add a freehand tool on the draw widget.  

Thanks for any consideration.

[AzizaParveen1]

Hi @TimHaverlandNOAA,

Is it possible to share your web map with me, also screenshot of proximity configuration settings? I would like to look into it and see if this is bug or not.

Another thing I would like to ask is, if all the attributes of the features are identical and are you talking about this setting in Screening widget?

Thanks,

Aziza

[MichaelMorisette]

Hi @Jianxia

There are a few major issues, that appear to still be missing from the roadmap, and that are preventing Experience Builder from being a suitable replacement of Web Appbuilder for our organization.

• Public Notification widget missing entirely (we really need to have this in EXB versus a separate app as our userbase relies on it being in our main map viewer)
• There seems to be a bug (as of the latest release of Developer Edition) where the basemap scales aren't getting detected properly, which results in a pixelated basemap as well as some scales not showing up entirely (this is not an issue in WAB, or any other Esri product that I've noticed)
• Some widgets (Geoprocessing and Elevation Profile that I've noticed) prompt users to login even though the underlying services they are hitting are publicly accessible and don't require a login in any other app we use them with
  • Also a bug?

Any thoughts for any of these? Thanks

[JustinH]

Is there any plan to make a trigger in the map widget to spatial filter data similar to the dashboard functionality? 

[AnitaB]

Along with others, I am pleased to see Arcade on the ExB Roadmap.  Will Experience Builder Express mode also gain Arcade?  and in the same time frame?  thank you!

[AKRRMapGuy]

Are there any plans for a 'follow point' mode? IE having the map zoom and pan with a selected point as the Real Time location updates. Right now, it seems to be impossible to make the map follow a feature. I think old Dashboards could do it but that doesn't really help me. 

[GEORGIOSCHALARIS]

Dear Jianxia, 

I keep following your team's work for the last 3 years very closely, since I am dependent on your efforts to maintain EXPB and introduce new functionality, very much needed by all of us.

I  have noticed that I face the same problems as with Michael Morisette (a post some 4 weeks ago) regarding Analysis widget  prompt users to login  to our portal while the underlying service  is publicly accessible and don't require a login by any means.  This is a major problem since we can not assign a viewer type of password to any external user due to security reasons.

I think this is a bug which prevents us from open up this web app to the public.  

Are you aware of that  and if yes what is your plan to fix it? 

Thank you very much 

George Chalaris 

[ÉricGosselin]

Hi @Jianxia @AzizaParveen1 ,

Do you know if there is any plan to fix the problem with the localizations files not copied over when deploying the app on a web server? this is planned?

Why is it necessary to ‘manually’ copy the fr.js files into the translations folders of different components?

We can see in the following example that I ‘fixed’ the 404 by copying the arcgis-experience-builder-1.16\client\dist\jimu-layouts\lib\translations\fr.js file to \application_name\cdn\1\jimu-core\lib\translations\

[ClintOffutt]

Dear Jianxia, 

Are there any plans to add a freehand tool to the Draw widget?  That would be nice to have!

One other thing that would be nice to have, would be a way to log or label individual segments on a multi segment measurement.  People who use the app for cadastral mapping need more robust measuring capabilities, either through the Draw widget or the Measurement widget.

[BrianLeroux]

The draw widget really needs a way to rotate symbols for points. All the arrows point up/North with no way to rotate which makes them useless for the most part. Even when you rotate the map they stay pointed Upward. I would think we want all symbols (lines, points etc.) to lock orientation when the map rotates with the ability to manually rotate any features. If I place an arrow and rotate it south I want it to stay south even when I rotate the map.