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.
How do you add more fields to the content in the infotemplate?
"content": "<p><strong>Name:</strong> ${NAME}</p><p><strong>Address:</strong> ${ADDRESS}</p><p><strong>City:</strong> ${CITY}</p><p><strong>State:</strong> ${STATE}</p><p><strong>Zip:</strong> ${ZIP}</p><p><strong>Latitude:</strong> ${LATITUDE}</p><p><strong>Longitude:</strong> ${LONGITUDE}</p>"
I'm having problems adding hyperlinks though.....any help would be appreciated.
Hyperlink to a webpage?
"content": "<p><strong>Name:</strong> ${NAME}</p><p><strong>Address:</strong> ${PROPERTY_ADDRESS}</p><p><strong>TOTAL: $</strong> ${TOTAL}</p><p><a href='http://mypage.com'>myPage</a></p>"
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Adam,
I have made the pull request for my UI work.
Adam,
Just installed Portal. How do I get your custom widget into Portal's Web appbuilder?
Thanks
Hey Anthony; I haven't experimented with Portal yet, so I'm not sure I can give you the exact steps, but if Portal comes with its own built-in Web Appbuilder, there should be support to build-in custom widgets with it. If you can find the directory where the Portal Web Appbuilder is located, you should be able to follow the standard steps to add a custom widget.
Keep me informed with what you find, and if you run into any specific roadblocks!
Just an APB to anyone interested; As mentioned in the original post, the widget has been merged with Robert's awesome GUI work, and LocalLayerWidget v.1.2 is now live! Head over to Github to grab a copy and check it out!
Adam/Robert, great work on the LocalLayer Widget 1.2.
I have successfully added my proxy, a local basemap and two local dynamic (one secure, one public) services. I am using Alaska Albers as my projection, which is the projection of the basemap and dynamic services. If you are able to view the attached .swf (flash) movie, you will see that on reload of the page, the basemap displays, then vanishes. My guess is it begins by seeing the services as Alaska Albers, but then flips back to WMA? or it thinks something is overwriting it (which shouldn't blank out the full base).
Any suggestions? Should I enter this as a "bug" on the github page? Or is it just something I need to tweak in the code?
Also, how would you like us to offer suggestions for the readme.md and/or help pages (if one is being written)? There are a few steps that new developers might need to know (and I had to figure out....might be nice to include those couple things in the readme).
Thanks
Hi Rebecca,
Have you had any luck with the Attribute Table displaying your secure services? The Layer List and Legend work fine for me with secure services, just having issues with the Attribute Table.
Thank you,
Bill
Bill, I hadn't tried that until you asked, and I'm just getting a spinning "loading" icon. My guess, is the proxy needs to be input into that widget too. Once I figure out my basemap issue, I'll look into that myself.
I'm getting the same result with the spinning "loading" icon. I'll do some testing with the proxy as well.