Buffer Widget Experience Builder

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11-16-2023 11:21 AM
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JorgeMorteo
Occasional Contributor

This is no believable. The Buffer widget in Experience  Builder only buffers from a point.  The basic geometric shapes use in GIS are points, lines and polygons. The buffer tool is useless if it can not buffer from the geometric features.  Please have the buffer tool buffer from Polygons and lines too. There is a web app builder tools that works great but it is not available in Experience Builder "Public Notification" . Make the buffer tool do the same please. 

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JorgeMorteo

Yes, but I believe it does not gives you a visual  polygon feature. I'll take a look. 

AlixVezina

@JorgeMorteo It should! 🙂

Make sure you've also enabled the following options when configuring the widget.

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Example result: 5 miles buffer around a point a sketched using the Analysis widget

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Jack_in_the_box

It's disappointing to see that the new program meant to replace the existing one is actually a step backward. It lacks several key tools and functionality that were available before. It feels like a basic principle of programming has been overlooked: don’t remove essential features unless you're improving or replacing them with something better. Please reconsider the direction this is going — users rely on these tools to get real work done.