Latest Contributions by TaraHaynes

Hi! Firstly, I am very excited to finally see a search widget in Experience Builder! Not sure if anyone else has run into this, but the search widget is currently producing two drop-downs that seem to have different functionalities.  (Original post - scroll down for update) For context, I am reading both my own hosted layer, "Landscape Units", and the ArcGIS World Geocoding service. I have set it so that the Landscape Units should appear at the top of the drop-down: Initially, when using the search bar, the drop-down does not respect this ordering: (Landscape Units are at the bottom) Selecting "Castle" will filter the associated layer, but will not select it. After clicking the selection, a second drop-down appears, this time respecting the set ordering: When "Castle" is clicked in this drop down, the associated feature is selected, and actions related to that selection are carried out. What I would like to see: I would like to see only the functionality of the second drop-down. That is, you search for a record, the drop-down respects the order set by the user, and the feature is selected upon clicking the item in the drop-down. I do not think that filtering the layer should be a default functionality of the search widget - currently, there is no way to turn it off, and if I wanted filtering I would just use the filter widget! If anyone has more info on this, I'm all ears! Hurray for the search widget, appreciating this update so far!   UPDATE 2021/09/17 The order of the search items is now being respected, thank you! However, I am still getting two drop-downs. I have also added images to show the map behaviour - note that I am running the search widget on a white layer that underlies the black boundary lines as a workaround for the filtering issue I mentioned Initial view of map, with "halo" effect: First search, 'Castle' selected: Map filters layer, but does not select (note that the "halo" effect is only around 'Castle' now): Now, the second drop-down only shows 'Castle', but I still need to click it in order for the selection and related actions to occur: Upon clicking, selection occurs: ... View more

(Note: this is not fixed as of the September 2021 EB update) The 'sorting' setting does not seem to apply properly to the table in the widget. Steps to produce: 1. Add Table widget > New Sheet > add desired sheet 2. In drop-down, go to settings for the chosen View (I tried both the Default view and creating a new view) 3. In 'Sort', identify sort fields. Check preview to confirm desired effect, and all is well: 4. 'Apply Changes' 5. Changes do not appear in table within the widget: I have also tried this only sorting on one field (BEC_Subzone), but with the same result. Not sure if I'm missing a step, or if this is simply a bug - any help would be appreciated! ... View more

I was attempting to add a blockquote using the button in the 'Configure Pop-up' window:   However, when I view the pop-up, it appears as such:   I did not edit the HTML directly prior to this. In other apps I tried (new Map Viewer, Field Maps), the pop-up does not show the HTML but also does not read the blockquote. I am not sure if support for Map Viewer Classic is continuing, but if so it would be nice to see this fixed, and if not I think that the options that are no longer viable should be removed from the configuration window / a warning should appear for users (eg. the new Map Viewer has a warning that pop-ups built there may not appear as expected in all apps). ... View more

Issue: when attempting to download an offline area in Field Maps, the error "An error occurred downloading the map area" appeared, and the offline area could not be downloaded. After some testing, it appears that this error is being caused by the existence of a 'copied' layer within the map. This is evidenced by the fact that the download does not work when the copied layer is present, and works once the copied layer is removed. Note: For anyone experiencing this issue, a workaround was linked in the comments: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/collector/field-mobility/same-layer-offline-twice-collector-feature-layer-views/  However, allowing copied layers to be downloaded would still be useful from a data management / ease of use perspective - at the very least, making it readily apparent that a map containing copied layers cannot be taken offline would be helpful. Workflow: Layers added to the map A layer is duplicated: In the copied layer, there is no option 'Show Item Details' where offline settings can be enabled. 'Description' takes the user to the REST Services Directory for the original layer: Map refreshed in Field Maps app, and 'Add offline area' selected. Selection screen appears: Area is selected for download. Download commences: Within 1 - 10 seconds, download is abruptly ended and error message appears at bottom of screen:   When the copied layer is removed from the map, the download is completed as expected. ... View more

In working with multiple pages in Experience Builder, there are sometimes changes that need to be made across all pages for consistency - for example, the appearance and placement of a menu, or buttons. While Sections can allow Views to be used within the same page for that type of consistency, I sometimes need things outside of the Section to be different between different pages (eg. having a Filter widget appear on the sidebar). Having some way to establish a "framework" element that could be edited for all pages simultaneously, or applied to all pages (similar to how, within the List widget, alterations to the 'Regular' appearance can be applied to the 'Selected' appearance) would be very useful. ... View more

In the Experience Builder list and text widgets/elements, it would be nice to have options to allow text elements to scroll, rather than only having the tooltip display for longer text (as shown below). Scrolling feels cleaner and more user-friendly. This could be presented as a style option to set the CSS values of overflow-x (and possibly overflow-y) to scroll, hidden, auto, or visible. Alternatively, overflow could automatically be set to scroll. ... View more

So, I am currently struggling to understand Actions and their interplay with each other in Experience Builder. Some examples of issues I have run into are: 1. Actions conflicting with each other / strange Action loops. Ie. an action in the map triggers an action in the framework, which then triggers an action in the map. 2. Actions not following through. I have tried setting it so that a record selection change on the map changes the framework, as well as a map on a separate page. But, when I click a button to go to that separate page, the record selection reverts to the first record in the attribute table, rather than the record that was originally selected. I cannot find any rhyme nor reason for this. It is difficult to describe the issues I am having as they seem specific to the dataset / aren't repeatable across separate EB projects. I am also struggling to make sense of Actions in general, which brings me to the "idea". I am not sure exactly how these types of issues could be resolved, but if there was a way to 'prioritize' Actions (eg. one Action will always occur over another when there is conflict), or to see an overview of all current actions and change them in one space, rather than needing to go through each element, that might help a lot. Especially if that overview had some built-in error checking to prevent users from setting conflicting Actions. The element-by-element approach becomes difficult to keep track of after a certain point. In addition to that, I am wondering if there is some documentation somewhere that goes into detail about best practices for using Actions. Actions are a very powerful and exciting concept, and I really love the potential of them, but at the moment I can't tell if they are still rather buggy, or if they just aren't intuitive to me. ... View more

Currently in the Filter widget, the 'contains' operator only returns features where a given field contains all selected values.   I would like to see an operator that would return features where a given field contains any of the selected records.   For example, with a field containing a list of values:   ObjectID Land_Use 1 agricultural, industrial 2 residential, agricultural 3 educational 4 recreational, industrial, residential   Land_Use contains any of agricultural, industrial would return features 1, 2, and 4. ... View more

Currently in the Filter widget, the 'contains' operator only returns features where a given field contains all selected values. I would like to see an operator that would return features where a given field contains any of the selected records. For example, with a field containing a list of values: ObjectID Land_Use 1 agricultural, industrial 2 residential, agricultural 3 educational 4 recreational, industrial, residential Land_Use contains any of agricultural, industrial would return features 1, 2, and 4. ... View more

Currently in the Filter widget, the 'contains' operator only returns features where a given field contains all selected values. I would like to see an operator that would return features where a given field contains any of the selected records. For example, with a field containing a list of values: ObjectID Land_Use 1 agricultural, industrial 2 residential, agricultural 3 educational 4 recreational, industrial, residential Land_Use contains any of agricultural, industrial would return features 1, 2, and 4. ... View more

I have noticed some discrepancies in how the Filter widget functions in Experience Builder vs. Web App Builder. The "idea" is that I would like to see consistent functionality for the Filter widget; I have two examples of areas where they seem to differ significantly.   The first is that Filter doesn’t seem to have an option to ‘zoom to selection’ in Experience Builder. I have tried to find a way using Actions, but the Filter does not have any ‘Action’ options, and the map cannot be made to zoom to itself through Actions (which makes sense, as Actions are set where the event occurs, not where they are carried out). I am not sure if I am missing something with this, or if it is just currently unavailable, but it would be a useful option to have.    The second difference is that you cannot set a ‘predefined’ input type (or any input type) for the filter value in Experience Builder, which is an option that is available in Web App Builder: My use case for this is essentially working with spreadsheets where a field contains a list of values. The ‘predefined’ values option allows list items to be separated, and also allows a label to be set to reference each value.   Survey123 results are a good example, as without predefined values they will display like this: With predefined values, I can make them display like this, which is more user friendly: Edit to add -  I found another inconsistency. In Web App Builder, it is possible to have an expression filtered by a previous expression. This does not seem to be possible in Experience Builder, but would be fantastic to have! ... View more