I am looking for a widget that has drop down tree similar to the layer list. I am wanting to modify it to set links to metadata for my arcmap project I am displaying in web app viewer. I am not very good at writing code, but can modify code...
David,
The enhanced Bookmark widget may be a good starting point then:
https://community.esri.com/docs/DOC-6889-enhanced-bookmark-widget-version-23-21417
There are quite a few free open source. have you ever looked at jstree? it is simple to plug in dealing with JSON data. It will look at this:
You can customize easily by change font, icons etc.