ArcGIS Experience Builder Blog

Here are some helpful resources that will help you create interactive and immersive web apps using ArcGIS Experience Builder.

The Select widget, group filter, and map URL parameters are available. Other improvements include the ability to search for and re-order layers in the Map Layers widget, getting statistics on numeric fields, and support for raster analysis in the Analysis widget. 

The Business Analyst widget features several new features in this update. 

We have added some great enhancements in Near Me in February 2024 ArcGIS Online update. The updates include adding more functional parities with Near Me, Situation Awareness, Info summary and Screening in Web AppBuilder widget. Major enhancements we have added are list virtualization to improve performance,  a configuration parameter to show map symbols in widget panel, use all features from a layer as input search area and many more small but valuable features. We also organize the configuration experience for greater usability and better user experience.

Summary of the key enhancements in February update

• The widget uses list virtualization to improve run time performance. Also, if you have lot of features in your web map, you may consider turning on the client side query option in the Map widget for your map to have better performance.
• In results, you can include map symbols representing the symbology of features that meet the analysis criteria.
• You have option now not to show input location address in the widget panel.
• You can use data added at run time with the Add Data widget as input data for analysis. As for example, if you have a shapefile or file geodatabase layer for you survey areas, you can upload the layer using Add Data widget and then use Set location data action to use that layer as input search area in Near me for finding features within your survey polygons.
• You can choose which sketch tools for drawing an input location appear in the widget panel at run time.
• You can create an input search area using all features from a layer through Map Layers widget.
• When any analysis only returns one feature, the widget now zooms to that feature automatically.
• When exporting to CSV format, the name of the input layer becomes the name of the .csv file.

Related resources

The following docs will be updated tomorrow (29th February, 2024) after ArcGIS Online update

• What's new—ArcGIS Experience Builder | Documentation 
• Near Me widget—ArcGIS Experience Builder | Documentation 
• Recreating Near Me workflows in Experience Builder | Blog article
• Recreating Situation Awareness workflows in Experience Builder | Blog article
• Recreating Info Summary workflows in Experience Builder | Blog article

Upcoming new features in ArcGIS Experience Builder in ArcGIS Online February 2024 release late this week.

Features planned for 2024

In Web AppBuilder, you can set up an interaction between the Group Filter widget and the Smart Editor widget to use the filtered value as a default value for attribute fields when you create new features. Learn how to recreate this functionality in Experience Builder using Smart Forms and Arcade.

This patch contains critical fixes for the Business Analyst widget for the latest Experience Builder Developer Edition (Version 1.13) release. 

The workflow mode in the Business Analyst Widget has been redesigned to bring new capabilities and accessibility for the October 2023 update. 

New Analysis widget and Near Me is out of beta. Other enhancements include related records editing, displaying multiple layer lists for the same map, pop-ups showing on the map when a feature is selected from another widget, filtering a table at runtime, new Extent navigate tool.