Custom Query on Selected Features

[MikeMacRae]

Hi folks,

I finally gained access to AGOL in my organization and I wanted to build an app with a custom tool. I'm used to developing in python quite often, but javascript is very new to me. I'm just wondering, at this point, what kind of objectivity I have access to using javascipt and web app builder. For example, I've been testing the 'Select' widget to make a spatial selection on a layer I've added. I'd like to be able to take the results of that selection and run a query on the attribute table of those selected features and then export/print/save to an excel spreadsheet. Does this sound doable? Any tips on where I'd start?

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Mike,

  If you are working with the AGOL version of WAB then customization is not a possibility. You will have to use WAB Dev if you are going to do any customization.

[MikeMacRae]

Thanks Robert. Yes, I'm working with WAB Dev as we speak.

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Mike,

   What you want to do is very possible but will likely be difficult for someone with no JS experience. The attribute widget does listen for selections that occur on a layer (so it does respond to selections using the select widget) and the AT widget does have the ability to export to a csv. So there may be no need for any custom development.

[XanderBakker]

The space where you will want to look is: Web AppBuilder Custom Widgets‌

I will include 2 resources compiled by Rebecca Strauch, GISP that are very valuable:

• /blogs/myAlaskaGIS/2016/03/09/web-appbuilder-developer-edition-customization-resource-list and
• /blogs/myAlaskaGIS/2016/04/04/web-appbuilder-developer-edition-help-and-training-links