Sidebar Custom - Auto Expand when using "Add to table" or "View in Table"

[Brian_McLeer]

Update on 2/23/26:

Widget now supports auto expansion for widget controller or view/add in table. 

Have collapsed sidebars expand when using "Add to table" or "View in table"" to show Table widget within sidebar. Also supports auto-expansion for widget controllers. 

Comes from an idea and great solution by @JeffreyThompson2 at The Automatically Opening Attribute Table.

sidebar-custom.zip

[ElisabethFenn]

This is a great improvement! As I'm testing it out I'm seeing an issue that I don't have with the original sidebar app. When I go to add a layer to the table, it gives me the table option twice. I've confirmed this is the same table listed twice and not a second table in the app. Have you seen this happen?

[Brian_McLeer]

Thank you @ElisabethFenn. I have seen the double table you are seeing occasionally, but it was before I created the sidebar custom. Are you using the out of the box map layers widget or a custom one? I have a modified custom one, which is why I though the double table option was an isolated issue. 

[Brian_McLeer]

@ElisabethFenn, I think this may be a bug. I created a testing application in DE 1.19 using all out of the box tools. The issue does not appear in DE, but it does on a deployed application. I may have to create a ticket with Esri support. 

DE:

Deployed testing application:

[ElisabethFenn]

@Brian_McLeer Interesting. I am using the out of the box map layers widget.

Yesterday I hadn't published yet and was just using the preview function in exb dev 1.19 and was seeing the double table issue.

Today I confirmed the double table is still there in preview, then I deployed my test app and I do not see the double table issue with the deployed version.

That's the opposite of what you're seeing though. 

[Brian_McLeer]

@ElisabethFenn interesting we are having the same issue but in opposite scenarios. I will keep you updated on results of my support case. 

[Brian_McLeer]

@ElisabethFenn Esri Support was able to replicate the issue on their end using DE 1.19 with no custom widgets. It may be logged as a bug pending more testing, and then a bug may be posted on Esri's bug site. 

[Brian_McLeer]

@ElisabethFenn this has been logged as BUG-000182651. I think you can create a support ticket and ask to have your account associated with the bug to get status updates and see it from the My Esri support site. 

[Brian_McLeer]

Update on 2/23/26:

Widget now supports auto expansion for widget controller or view/add in table. 

Have collapsed sidebars expand when using "Add to table" or "View in table"" to show Table widget within sidebar. Also supports auto-expansion for widget controllers.