The latest release of the Advanced Draw Widget introduces practical improvements across both the Draw and My Drawings tabs, designed to enhance accuracy, flexibility, and usability in GIS workflows. Key updates include a real-time measurement system with support for custom units and advanced calculations, dynamic tooltips that provide immediate feedback during drawing, and enhanced snapping functionality for precise alignment. The updated interface streamlines drawing tools with clear mode indicators and expanded text styling options, while layer management now offers runtime visibility toggles and customizable naming. The My Drawings tab adds robust storage options, including local storage and import/export features, as well as comprehensive tools for organizing, editing, and managing drawings. With an accessible design and performance optimizations, this release refines the Enhanced Draw Widget into a more reliable and versatile tool for professional map-based projects.     ... View more

The Right Click widget adds contextual map tools to ArcGIS Experience Builder. When a user right-clicks on the map, a menu appears offering a set of configurable actions. This provides quick access to functions like zoom, measurement, coordinate copying, and reverse geocoding, without cluttering the interface. ... View more

What's New is a custom Experience Builder 1.20 widget that adds the familiar bell-and-red-dot notification pattern to public-facing map applications. It drops into any spot of an Experience (header, body, or footer) and displays a small red dot whenever there's a new announcement. Users click the bell, see what changed in a popover or centered modal, and the dot disappears for them across browser sessions. When the next update goes out, bumping the Announcement ID (a "New ID" button in the settings panel drops in a timestamp) brings the dot back for everyone on their next visit. Content is either Rich HTML pasted directly into the settings or an external URL, and the widget is pure client-side with no backend. Seen-state lives in each user's localStorage, so there's nothing to maintain. The widget solves a recurring problem: every time improvements are pushed to an Experience, users have no idea anything changed because they tend to bookmark the map and use it the same way for months. What's New gives them a quiet, dismissible signal built right into the app. ... View more

Hi there everyone! We've been working on a traverse widget for a couple of weeks now and figured since it is functional we can now add it to the EXB community. @ncramer11 and I have developed this with some help from ClaudeCode, and we're still in the process of updating it. Big thanks to @TomSellsted for helping us build the original Web AppBuilder widget. Features still to come: Cardinal direction simplified entry course specific units popup suppression ... View more

My team is in the middle of transitioning King County's main public-facing GIS application, iMap, to ArcGIS Experience Builder. After exploring everything Esri offered out of the box, we quickly realized it would not deliver the same user experience as Robert Scheitlin's (@RobertScheitlin__GISP) Enhanced Search widget in Web AppBuilder. With our tech lead out for three weeks, I had a window. I decided to use it. I started with Esri's Query widget as a base, took design cues from Robert's Enhanced Search, and used Vector Coding to go from concept to what you see here. My team has tested these widgets extensively, with a handful of enhancement requests in the backlog. QuerySimple is designed to explain itself so users can work confidently without reading documentation. Every mode, every control, and every state has a plain-language description of what it does and why something may not be available. For those familiar with the old Web AppBuilder, the advanced query and draw functions lived separately. I brought them together under one roof in the Spatial tab. While I am biased, I think the result is fairly intuitive. I have been building this for what feels like an eternity. There are a lot of little things baked in that you will discover as you use it. Every time I said "I'd prefer this to be done this way," I made it a configurable item, because not everyone likes it my way. The features listed here are the highlights, but the details are in the demo. Try It Live https://exb-sample.mapsimple.org https://exb-sample.mapsimple.org/#pin=2223059013 https://exb-sample.mapsimple.org/#major=222305 When you open the demo, look at the layer list. The magnifying glass icon is a persistent result layer controlled by the layer list, like any other operational layer. The funnel icon is a widget-managed graphics layer that appears and disappears based on the widget's state. Both are live in the demo, so you can see the difference in action. HelperSimple ExB widgets only exist in the DOM when they are open. A collapsed widget is not listening. HelperSimple solves this by running independently of widget state, continuously monitoring the URL, and opening QuerySimple and firing the appropriate query when a matching parameter is detected. Always mounted and always listening Maps ShortIds (e.g., pin) to technical field names (e.g., PROP_KEY_NUM) Hash fragment (#) support for page-reload-free navigation Auto-generated info button per layer: when a ShortId is configured, a help icon automatically appears next to the layer title, showing users the exact URL format for both hash and query string deep links QuerySimple Hierarchical two-dropdown UI: group 30+ queries without list fatigue Typeahead and suggest: configurable per query Results mode control with contextual helper text: each mode (New, Add, Remove) displays a plain-language description of its behavior so users understand the outcome before executing Execute on Enter with input-driven validation Dynamic zoom control with user override at runtime High-volume result loading: full result set at once, no lazy-loading Label point centering for irregular polygons Duplicate button: clone queries with all settings preserved Mobile per-breakpoint configuration overrides Result layer modes: widget-managed graphics layer or persistent layer list layer Selection styling: color, opacity, outline, marker style per query Multi-source results support: parcels, address points, wetlands, school districts, and more can all coexist in a single result set. Open Table opens all source tables independently. Export zips each data source separately, preserving the original schema per layer. Spatial Query Tab Two modes with plain-language descriptions: Operations and Draw each display a description of their purpose when selected Smart tab default: if no results are loaded when the Spatial tab is opened, the widget automatically defaults to Draw mode Contextual disabled state messaging: when Operations mode cannot execute, a plain-language callout explains why and directs the user to the correct action Operations mode: use results as source with real-time geodesic buffer preview on the map as distance changes Draw mode: 7 tools, including freehand line and polygon, geometries accumulate Multi-target layer selection: run a single spatial operation against multiple target layers simultaneously, and the results from all layers come back together in a single execution 7 spatial relationships with context-aware warnings: when a selected relationship combined with the current geometry or buffer is likely to return zero results, an amber warning explains why before execution Spatial relationship help: most relationships include a built-in visual diagram showing geometry type compatibility, plus a plain-language description Spatial-only query layers: configure layers for spatial operations without exposing them in the attribute search dropdown Results mode control (New/Add/Remove) available on the Spatial tab Configurable draw symbol color and buffer preview color   Performance 93.4% query latency reduction via Universal SQL Optimizer (21.1s to 1.4s on 2M+ record layer) 93% memory reduction per query Developer Glass Box debug logging via URL: ?debug=all or specific flags Independent versioning and config migration GitHub: https://github.com/MapSimple-Org/ExB-Simple-Public Docs: https://mapsimple.org/samples/querysimple-helpersimple-widgets/ ExB Developer Edition 1.19.0+. 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