Latest Contributions by shaylavi

Hi AI, I don't know much about other geocode systems as you mentioned, but you need to understand better how a geocoder works in ESRI to know how to implement such a solution, assuming that's what you're after. Short long story, a geocoder is a quicker way (using an indexed table) to find information for coordinates. When creating the geocoder, you also define its output structure, based on the available data that geocoder is attached to (which is an indexed table). Normally, a geocoder will return the data based on the coordinates. You can build your own geocoder and decide that it returns some kind of ID, but if there's an internal cache mechanism to monitor your calls and retrieve previous values? definitely not out of the box, but you can probably create one of your own. Also, when using ESRI's world geocoder / public geocoders, there are some legal requirements for billing purposes when using the geocoder over a certain amount of calls per month, so I don't see how that can work with the mechanism you mentioned when calling a public geocoder. There are online resources you can read about it - What is geocoding?—ArcMap | Documentation  Shay. ... View more

Hi Victor, The content of a portal item is saved as JSON at the database.. which can be seen using the ArcGIS Online Assistant tool. To reach its content for the creation of a new item sounds like a very complex task. The easiest way I can think of is to use the functionality of a session share widget, that can copy all the "meta-data" of one map to another, but that doesn't take care of the layers and symbology, which you also need I suppose. Shay. ... View more

Hi Kevin, I assume you mean by that to reading the URL for any parameters and trigger actions... I don't think that exists at this point. I'm curious to think how can such feature be implemented to such a dynamic/flexible platform, since in contrast to all the products you mentioned, the Experience Builder let the editor to determine the centric component/s, so there's a challenge on how to attach URL parameters to content that isn't fully determined. With that being said, it can be done with the developer edition, where you can create custom behaviors. Shay. ... View more

Hi Jessica, The ArcGIS Online Assistant is a tool used for editing of Portal/ArcGIS Online Items. There's no way to import/export pages or components from the Experience Builder, but you can save an Experience as a Template, and then all your content for that template can be reused as a base for new Experiences. Shay. ... View more

Hi Jeanine, Experience Builder is based only on web technologies and cannot be ported to native mobile apps. App Studio is a different product with different technology. To create native mobile applications you'll need to use App Studio, which provides great starting templates for native application development. The development is based on a language called QML. Also, you should know that there's a whole different licensing requirement when it comes to mobile applications development - AppStudio for ArcGIS license options—AppStudio for ArcGIS | Documentation  I assume you already know that Experience Builder supports custom mobile layouts. For advanced features, without the complexity of mobile development, it might be better for you to consider developing widgets for the Experience Builder that gives you what you're after. Shay. ... View more

The Experience builder is expected to receive the same widgets and custom web tool capabilities as the WAB - they've said it's in their road map, starting with the core and most popular widgets, which are partially there already. For just a 1-year-old product, I personally find it to be very impressive. The WAB cannot be switched over. It's very different and it wouldn't make sense to do so. With that being said, there is already an option to create WAB 3D apps, which I believe to be working with the new API, but I might be wrong - I never explored it. ... View more

Hi Adam, Could it be that you're logged in with a different user at the ExB? Might be helpful to see any errors you're getting at the console view. Shay ... View more

Hi Adam, The Experience Builder is expected to be integrated with ArcGIS Enterprise starting from 10.8.1 and above. You can access it through here - ArcGIS Experience Builder  Or download the dev' edition to host it locally. Shay. ... View more

I believe they mean to say that all new functionality and features will be delivered only to the new v4 API and not the old one. They won't flick off the switch when so many applications still rely on it, just like with ArcMap & Python v2, which was supposed to be retired by now. ... View more

ExB is just 1 year old, and personally I'm pretty impressed how much you can do with it for such a young product. It does have a learning curve but it's not that bad for a drag-and-drop experience.. Also, I wouldn't say it's meant to build mobile apps - you have AppStudio for that. ExB allows you to better customize the layout of mobile and once you understand the "best practices", I was pretty surprised to see how good it works. If you're referring to the coding aspect of it, then yes, it's definitely harder, but learning a new technology is rarely a easy/smooth thing to do. The new javascript API (v4) is already using a similar tech stack of react, es6 and I find it to be equally hard. ... View more

No worries, Gerard. Seems like you've done an impressive job there for someone who's not a JS developer. To use libraries like tinysoap that has dependencies, you would probably have to switch to work with the newer versions of javascript (es6), where you are able to use NPM as well. You can use ESRI's Yeoman tool to create an empty widget for you in es6 - GitHub - Esri/generator-esri-appbuilder-js: Yeoman generator to help customize Esri's WebAppBuilder  Then it should be straight forward on how to install tinysoap, but the rest of your code will need to be rewritten, so I'm not sure if it's worth it over finding a different solution. I just recently answered someone with a resource on how to code in es6 a custom widget. You can here's a live demo by ESRI on how to code a widget in modern javascript + typescript - Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS: Advanced Development tools and Techniques - YouTube  Might be good preparation for you when starting to work with version 4 of the javascript API Shay. ... View more