Latest Contributions by ZorbaConlen1

Hi, This is a general, best practices question. What is the best approach to sharing configurations between widgets? Let's say I have some configurations that several widgets need to access. Instead of repeating the configurations in each widgets own config.json file, it seems better to place them in a shared or common config.json file. Likewise for utility type functions that could be used by multiple widgets. Is there an approach others have used for this? Thanks ... View more

Hi, I'd like to apply a def query to a feature layer in my app. I'm running into an issue, I think with the expression I'd like to use. It's a bit complicated in that it uses the IIF sql function (returns one of two values based on if a boolean expression evaluates to true or false). No error, but no results are returned and the same expression returns results in sql (ssms). I'm guessing there are limits on what sql functions one can use, but not finding any documentation of that. Anyone know if it's documented as to what is valid expression? Thanks ... View more

Hi, I'm developing an editing app and extending the WAB Edit widget for some custom behavior. I'm programmatically launching the edit widget, but I don't want to make users pick the edit type from the template picker. Rather, I'd like to just allow them to start editing a hard coded feature layer. And I would hide the template picker as well. Struggling so far to figure out how to go about this. I know the edit widget uses the esri editor digit. I'm assuming there is a method that starts editing for that digit, but not finding it, so far...  Thanks ... View more

HI I'm hoping someone can shed some light on how widget config files are supposed to work. I'm extending existing widgets and creating new ones, and I found that I can't reference values in the config.json files (in the widget folder), either in widget.html or widget.js. My dev environment is using the pattern of writing code in source control, and using grunt to copy files to the sever. Using tools found in this esri git repo. After poking around at the deployed app, I see that the config.json file is not being used. The app is actually configured to use a config file like "...\server\apps\2\configs\FilterDateTime\config_widgets_FilterDateTime_Widget_21.json", which is not getting updated via my grunt task. Is this expected? Not really documented - esri docs just make it seem like you edit the config.json file in the widget folder and that's it. And not easy to manage, with the grunt task referenced above. It looks like I can modify the the app config so that it uses the config.json file in the widget folder, but not sure that is advisable. I'm assuming the  way this is set up is meant to optimize performance. Any clarification about this and about best practices for managing these config files would be appreciated. Thanks ... View more