Latest Contributions by ZorbaConlen1

The out of the box themes in ExB seem to be quite limited. For instance, switching from 'Default' to 'Ink' results in the following changes to the appearance of may app: Background color of the search bar button changes and background color of the legend changes. That's it.  I would expect to see a bit more of an overall style difference. Like buttons, icons, maybe header background, fonts, etc. The dark styles do a bit more, as they change the map widget styles, but it still seems very haphazard. So, I'd be looking for a couple of styles that apply different color palettes across the entire interface and create noticibly different look and fee. I'm aware that I can create a custom theme with the developer edition, but I'd prefer to just have more useful options out of the box. ... View more

In the Interactive Legend app, one can configure searching on layers within the webmap. After a successful search, the feature is highlighted, zoomed to and a popup displays. The main issue is that it's a generic popup, rather than the popup configured for the webmap. For example, I have configured popups to display like this for my TMP layer: The popup shown after a search for a TMP feature, is like this: I'd like the search to show a popup like in the first image. As it stands, users don't see the information they need. In order to see it, they need to do several extra steps, like clicking on the feature and paging through popups. All of which is completely redundant. Also, note the difference in how the feature is highlighted. The search result highlight symbol is different. It's too subtle and should be the same as how features are highlighted after clicking on it. I believe what I have described above should be the default behavior. If not, at least allow app authors to configure it this way.  Not sure how it works with other instant apps, but if they work similar to interactive legend, they should also be changed as indicated. Thanks ... View more

Hi, I'm wondering about the themes available in ExB. It seems they are quite limited. For instance, switching from 'Default' to 'Ink' results in the following changes to the appearance of may app: Background color of the search bar button changes and background color of the legend changes. That's it.  I would expect to see a bit more of an overall style difference. Like buttons, icons, maybe header background, fonts, etc. The dark styles do a bit more, as they change the map widget style, but it still seems very haphazard. The attached screenshot shows the 'Violet' theme, which does apply that color palette to the buttons or other icons in the header. I'm aware that I can create a custom theme, but I'd prefer to just have more useful options out of the box.   ... View more

Hi. Does anyone know if it's possible to change the default sorting for features in a hosted feature layer? In my case, I need to sort by 2 fields, like Address and Date, say. This is for a feature layer hosted in AGOL.  Thanks ... View more

Administrators can define unique value lists for fields of hosted feature services, in order to simplify data entry and maintain data integrity. This is useful, but it appears there is a gap in capabilities. The only way to create the list is to manually enter the codes and values one by one. There is no way (that I can find) to import the picklist. Manual input is ok if one has only a handful of values, but not really practical for a large set. So, the idea is to provide a capability to import the list from another table or data source.  Thanks ... View more

Hi. I noticed that Google has added some nice accessibility features to their api for developers. Point marker icons are now accessible via keyboard. One can tab through icons, activate the popup, etc. - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/improved-accessibility-maps-javascript-api. It's a pretty nice, intuitive implementation too. This seems like a big jump ahead in terms of accessibility, as previously users who are unable to use a mouse were unable to do much with a map besides pan and zoom.  So, wondering the following: 1) Is esri looking into doing something similar in the esri jsapi? 2) Is esri considering building in this type of capability to their apps like WAB and Exp Builder, etc.? Thanks @Anonymous User  ... View more

Hi. It would be great if ExB supported url parameters similar to WAB. In that app, one can pass parameters to the app which control default layer visibility, extent, selection of features and similar.  Additionally, the share widget provides an interface to easily generate short URLs using these parameters. This allows non-technical people to create their own custom launch links.  And there are other behaviors that would be useful to enable via url params, including default active widget, basemap, title or sub-title or other text values in the app, query expression, etc. I feel like this is one of the best features of WAB and disappointed that it's not implemented for ExB. There are many use cases. As an example: a single app can replace multiple single purpose apps. Suppose a city has a separate map for Zoning and another for Capital Projects and another for Parks ans so on. All of the layers could be combined into a single ExB app, and separate launch links could be generated to launch the app to mimic each single purpose app. The one for zoning would load with zoning layers visible by default and the title could be changed to "Zoning".  Thanks ... View more