"Define the template" step in widget development not displaying in browser

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06-07-2015 09:38 AM
AndrewWallick2
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I'm trying to go through the steps in Widget Development in the Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Developer Edition), and in the "Define the template" step (Define the template—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Developer Edition) | ArcGIS for Developers ), I can't get the last part to show up.

It says:

Start the app through http://[your host]/webappviewer/?config=sample-configs/config-demo.json, and click the icon. The widget appears like the following:

Define the widget template

When I do this, however, nothing shows up. The blue loading screen comes on, but once it loads it's just blank. I have followed all the steps to the letter, so I don't think it's that I'm missing any of the files. I am typing in "http://glados:3344/webappviewer/?config=sample-configs/config-demo.json  " for the link (my computer name is glados). When I use Web AppBuilder, it runs from the link: http://glados:3344/webappbuilder/ .

Has anyone else had this problem, or have any idea what could be going wrong?

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AndrewWallick2
New Contributor III

Stan,

I'm not sure how to access the node.js console. When I look at the console in firebug, it only shows the e.manifest error.

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StanMcShinsky
Occasional Contributor III

The node.js console is the black box you have open in the background to run the developers edition like this:

AndrewWallick2
New Contributor III

oh okay. No I don't see any errors.

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AndrewWallick2
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Okay I got it to work now! The problem was a missing manifest.json file. Once I copied the manifest.json file from C:\[install dir]\client\stemapp\widgets\samplewidgets\Demo\manifest.json into my new "demo2" folder (in "samplewidgets"), the web appViewer worked.

Thank you everyone for all your help!

RobertScheitlin__GISP
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Andrew,

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