I've been having a blast playing around with the new Web AppBuilder, and have taken a few cracks at putting together some custom Widgets that I'd like to share with the community. I hope these can assist in everyone's future Mappmaking endeavours!
September 28 2017 : LocalLayerWidget v2.5 released: This major release includes the following enhancements for the widget. Thanks to everyone who's donated!:
Release LocalLayerWidget 2.5 · cmndrbensisko/LocalLayer · GitHub
November 14, 2016: LocalLayerWidget v2.2 released: This major release includes the following enhancements for the widget:
Release LocalLayer v2.2 · cmndrbensisko/LocalLayer · GitHub
May 18, 2016: LocalLayerWidget v.2.0 released: This substantial change for Web App Builder v.2.0. removes the need to edit any core files in the Web App Builder, unlike previous versions. A slight change will still be necessary for the AttributeTable widget to work properly with LocalLayerWidget layers.
Mar 29, 2016: LocalLayerWidget v.1.3.1 released; Contains bugfixes to v.1.3. related to custom rendering for Feature Layers and toggling sublayer visibility in the LayerList widget.
Mar 22, 2016: LocalLayerWidget v.1.3 is now available! (Note the version naming change; Version 1.3 refers to its compatibility with v1.3 of the WAB - This is indeed the latest version of the widget as of March 22, 2016). Be sure to read the github page to see what tweaks need to be made to ensure that everything continues running smoothly in version 1.3 of the Web AppBuilder.
Feb 10, 2015: LocalLayerWidget v.1.5 is now available! This release contains full support for adding Tiled layers to your application directly from ArcGIS Server, in addition to the Basemap, Dynamic, and Feature layers available before. Feel free to grab the widget from our Release page located at https://github.com/cmndrbensisko/LocalLayer/releases.
Feb 2, 2015: LocalLayerWidget v.1.2 is now available! This release provides a great GUI developed by Robert Scheitlin to more easily add Feature, Dynamic, and Basemap layers to your ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Applications. Take it for a spin, and please keep us informed of any bugs or desired enhancements through our Github Issue Tracker located at https://github.com/cmndrbensisko/LocalLayerWidget/issues.
Jan 12, 2015: Note that LocalLayerWidget v.1.1 is now available, which provides Click-To-Identify support and the option to add Feature and Basemap layers in addition to Dynamic layers.
The LocalLayer Widget is intended to allow the direct addition of MapServices to an ArcGIS Web AppBuilder application, without needing to wrap the desired services in an ArcGIS Online/Portal Web Map.
https://github.com/cmndrbensisko/LocalLayerWidget
Basically, your basemap will still need to come from Portal/AGOL, but otherwise you just provide direct URLs to your own MapServices in the widget's configuration settings. The MapServices should load and display as usual in the map, and cooperate with the Legend, LayerList, and Attribute Table widgets. Click-To-Identify functionality won't work currently, though, because the current WAB implementation relies on Portal for all the popup info. As stated in the January 12th 2015 release, popups are fully customizable. Note that it's not an in-panel widget, so you'll need to follow a few extra steps in the project's Readme file.
Let's make Mapps accessible for everyone! With an eye on WCAG compliance, the Accessifizr Widget is designed to help make web applications keyboard navigable without having to modify core application code and UI.
https://github.com/cmndrbensisko/AccessifizrWidget
Information about how to configure this widget is available in the core Accessifizr.js library project available here, but the gist is that you create a JSON-based 'roadmap' detailing the keyboard navigation of your web application, and how it should change in response to users entering modal menus, hitting the escape button, etc. For applying descriptive alternate text to page elements, the widget leverages dojo's built-in internationalization support to specify multilingual alternate text strings. The end result is a web app that, hopefully, is a bit easier to use for people with mobility or visual challenges.
Hi all -
Will LL2.0 work with WAB DE 2.1 following the same readme.md installation instructions?
Thanks, Meg
Meg,
Yep works fine
Hmm, I just discovered that when I add an ArcGIS server mapservice layer via LocalLayer widget as a feature service (http://server_name/service_name/FeatureServer/0), so that I could use the edit widget also, then it does not display the layer visually correctly.
Instead this: the layer appears as this:
Any ideas for a solution?
The Javascript API can be pretty bad at rendering complicated symbology on FeatureLayers; Unfortunately this might be what you're running up against.
One sneaky way to do it is to add the same service as a MapService, so that the layer gets rendered properly on the server-side, and also add the same layer as a FeatureService, but give it an empty or invisible symbology. This makes the layer selectable, and you get to see your complex symbology from the MapService layer. Just a thought.
Yes, drackleyad, I've solved my cases several times like this, but this time it is not suitable, because the layer symbol in the Edit widget stays still faulty.
Thanks anyway
Hi Adam Drackley,
Can the LocalLayer Widget be used with OGC (WMS, WFS, WMTS) web services?
Thanks
Baba
Unfortunately not yet, Babatope. I had made a note to phase in support for these last December, but I haven't done it because I wasn't hearing much demand. Maybe this would be a good addition for the next release.
Thanks Adam,
that would be a great addition given the "Open data" mantra........Am sure a lot of people would love to include it but given the ease to use them in ArcGIS Online, peeps are not to concerned
Baba
Hi Adam,
There appears to be no way to add Image Services (un-tiled, using pyramid layers for fast display) via the LL widget. Is that true? If so, could that capability be added to LL widget in the future?
Best regards,
Barnaby