What's new in Near Me in Experience Builder in November 2024 ArcGIS Online update

[AzizaParveen1]

New features added in Near Me for November 2024 release,

New functionalities:

• Added support for Subtype group layer data
• Added support to view related records
• Added a loading icon that is interactive so user can cancel out analysis process when analysis process takes longer.
• Support data actions at the selected feature level(Zoom to, Pan to, Show on map, Set location and Plan route when Direction widget is configured).

WAB functional parities:

• Automatically update results based on map area extent. This functionality works with Map widget's Extent change -> Filter data record message action and Near Me's Current map area search method, when these are configured, Near Me will automatically update results with extent change. Another suggestion in this scenario is, please enable client side query in the Map widget for better performance.
• Show results on map for all configured layers regardless of their visibility status (added new configuration parameter in the Results section)
• Near me to return only intersected features (configuration parameter that will only available for polygon features when configuring Closest or Proximity analysis)
• Add support to use Near Me result as input location (configuration parameter added in the results section)

[JwHayes]

@AzizaParveen1 ,

Thank you for the update. It would be great if "Show results on map for all configured layers regardless of their visibility status" could be added back to the Search Widget - it was native functionality to WAB. 

Most of my users use our map with most of the layers off. Creating an option to turn on layers in the Layer List Widget once a search is completed on that layer in the Search Widget would be amazing. Example, user completes a survey number search and zooms-to that feature, the survey layers in the layer list automatically turns on. Thx!

[kronezone]

Hi everyone,

I’m working on an ArcGIS Experience Builder app that -attempts to- integrate the Near Me and Analysis widgets. The goal is to use Near Me to identify intersecting features from multiple layers with a project area and buffer to generate a report using a custom print service (similar to the process described here: Recreating the Screening Widget Workflow). 

This workflow works well for most of the layers in my webmap/app, but a subset requires additional processing—specifically grouping, summarizing, and pivoting the results before inclusion in the report. Recently I have been exploring the possibility of using a custom geoprocessing service in the Analysis widget to handle this, but I am unsure if the resulting outputs from the Near Me analysis can directly provide the input data required for a custom script in the Analysis widget (at this time). I see the note above about how support was added recently to use Near Me results as an input location via the configuration parameter, but I haven't been able to get it to work so I'm not sure if it's something I'm doing wrong or if the widget interactions/functionality just isn't quite at that stage yet.

Does anyone have experience using Near Me to dynamically feed results into the Analysis widget, or have ideas about an alternative approach for processing intersected features in a similar way? I am certainly open to other ideas that might streamline this workflow. Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you, I greatly appreciate your help on this!