Latest Contributions by ZorbaConlen1

Hi. Some suggested improvemetns in 4x api legend widget. Here is how the widget appears in my app, on a phone (screen shot below). I'm wondering why there is so much padding by default (yet at bottom, no padding)? Why is the widget container so much wider than the content? The legend takes up half of the map. It could easily be styled to display the same info in a fraction of the space. Also, nice if the widget had a collapse\expand interface. It would be useful to have more control in the widget of which layers are shown, and which text elements such as service name, layer name, sub-layer name and like that. You have only so much control in the webmap, especially when using a service you don't control, like esri live traffic. I don't think end users need to see that this is the 'North American Traffic' layer, but I can't hide that in the webmap, nor can I hide it in the legend (unless I use css to override the default style). On the topic of styles, it's pretty tricky manipulating the styles via css from what I have found. It would be cool if the widget had some properties related to style that one could use to tweak how it looks. Examples: padding, background color, title, arrangement (like instead of having text above the symbol, align it to the right, etc.), font sizes and similar. Thanks ... View more

Hi. I noticed that in the list widget, it's not possible to create a link, except as an image. Or perhaps its possible, but its not intuitive. You can add a link to an image, but the only option appears to be hard coding the link url. So, you can't use a field token, nor can you build a dynamic link comprised of text, field tokens and or arcade expressions. Pretty limited. So, the idea is to support more robust options for creating links either image or text based with dynamic options as described above. Thanks ... View more

It would be useful to be able to use arcade expressions in the following areas: Filters. The list of fields available to filter on should include any arcade expressions created for the layer. List templates. Again, really useful to use Arcade expressions to enhance data presentation in list widget. Image and text widgets. I'm hoping to see this extended in future releases of ExB. There are probably other widgets and interfaces where it would be useful as well within ExB. Thanks ... View more

Hi. I'd like to configure my app to display the feature info when user clicks a feature on the map. Not seeing how I can configure that. I have it so the feature is selected in the list, but then a user needs to click the button to show the feature info. I'd like to make that widget show immediately instead.  Is this feasible?  Thanks ... View more

Experience builder should have a search widget, separate from the search you can enable in the map or in a list. One obvious situation is that you want the search results applied to both the list and the map. That's not possible currently, as far as I can tell. Beyond that, you should have full control to configure search options, style the widget and control the placement. ... View more

Hi. I'm assessing the option of providing an mmpk for our field staff who use explorer. This is for our firefighters to access Prefire drawings of buildings that have details useful in emergency response. Currently, they use explorer with an online map, which is publicly accessible and secured via the map service, but they frequently complain about connectivity and also the need to sign in, which is cumbersome and time consuming when time is of the essence and your bumping along in a fire truck :-). This is iOS version of explorer. Latest version. So, I'm considering these options: A) Sideload mmpk to their devices and provide a launch link that opens that map from where its loaded in app storage. Since the map would be stored locally there would be no need to sign in to AGOL. Solves the sign in issue, but deployment is not easy. B) Set them up to access the mmpk via AGOL. Again, a launch link can assist with downloading the mmpk on first use, and launching it directly on subsequent uses. Users would need to sign in, but I'm thinking they can just stay signed in so that it's less hassle. This simplifies deployment and refreshes to the mmpk, too. Issues I'm running into: 1)  Address search fails when disconnected. If I turn off mobile data and wifi (or go away from wifi hotspot), I'm unable to search for addresses or places. Note that the feature search which i have enabled does work. The mmpk contains a vtpk that I have created from the esri world topo vector basemap. The docs for explorer indicate that address searching is supported by default - Prepare maps for download—Explorer for ArcGIS | Documentation. Under the heading "The following tips will help you make better MMPKs for offline use:"     "By default, maps allow you to search for places, addresses, and coordinates." Perhaps I missed something in creating the mmpk? Or is this a bug? 2) Launch link to the local mmpk fails when disconnected. It's like this - https://explorer.arcgis.app?itemID=MyMap. This opens explorer without signing in to agol as desired, but it fails to launch the map. If I'm online, it works as expected. 3) Regarding Option B above, the mmpk is only accessible once the user signs in to AGOL. This is expected. The issue is that if a user (who is not already signed in) attempts to access the offline map once they are in the field in a location without connectivity, they can't access the "offline" map, because they need internet access to sign in. Kind of defeats the purpose of an offline map. Is this an issue for others? How to address it? I'm thinking I would instruct users to just always stay signed in... Launch link like -  https://explorer.arcgis.app?itemID=MyItem&portalURL=https://xxxx.maps.arcgis.com Thanks for reading this long post. Appreciate any advice on this. zc ... View more