Open widget at startup

[KlasÖstergren]

Is far as I know (I am not a developer), it is not possible to send extent x,y in a url parameter. Is there any way to have the bookmark widget open on application startup?

[RobertScheitlin__GISP · Accepted solution]

Klas,

  For the x,y in the url this is NOT built into the WAB Stem App. But here is a link to where I detail what has to be changed to make this work:

https://community.esri.com/message/399090#399090

As far as making the bookmark widget open at startup that is as simple as editing the config.json to include

"openAtStart": true

so the widget element look like this:

     {
        "position": {
          "left": 55,
          "top": 45,
          "width": 400,
          "height": 410
        },
        "placeholderIndex": 1,
        "id": "_5",
        "positionRelativeTo": "map",
        "name": "Bookmark",
        "label": "Bookmark_2",
        "isThemeWidget": false,
        "uri": "widgets/Bookmark/Widget",
        "openAtStart": true
      },

[LarryStout]

For widgets in the Widget Pool, there is a bug with the openAtStart behavior.  I logged it as WebApp-001095 and a few hours ago someone else logged it as WebApp-001126.  You can see them here.

[TaraEvoy]

Was this bug ever resolved? The page in the link you provided is unavailable. If you could let me know that would be great, thank you!

[LarryStout]

Neither bug report has been resolved.  I worked around it by putting the widget pool widget I wanted to open at startup as the first widget in the widget pool.  Later, I stopped using the openAtStart config parameter in favor of a widget I wrote that is an onScreen widget and can open as may widgets at startup as I want.

[TaraEvoy]

Thanks for your reply Larry! Good to know its not just me. Although I cannot get open at startup param to work for me no matter where the app it resides in the widget pool for any widget (even a basic built in widget like the basemaps). Did you do anything else additionally to finally get it to work?

[LarryStout]

No, as far as I know, Robert's answer still works.

[GregoryMeyer1]

How about using "openAtStart": true  for widgets in the side control panel?  I can only get this to work for off-panel widgets.

I would like the Layer List widget in my sidebar to be open when app starts-- to create the typical map and toc look. 

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Gregory,

   This involves a bit of code. See these threads

Load In-Panel Widget onStart of the application

How to programmatically open a widgetOnScreen widget