How to Export a Polygon Created with the Near Me Widget in Experience Builder to an Existing Polygon Layer?

[HafidaAttar]

Hello everyone,
I’d like to export the buffer created with the near me widget to an existing polygon feature layer.
My questions are as follows:
• Is it possible to export the polygon created with the Near Me widget directly to an existing layer? If so, could you provide guidance on how to achieve this?
• If the Near Me widget doesn’t support this functionality, are there any alternative workflows or widgets in Experience Builder or ArcGIS Online that could help me accomplish this?
Thank you in advance for your insights and suggestions!
Looking forward to learning from your experiences.
Best regards,

[JeffreyThompson2 · Accepted solution]

The Analysis Widget contains a tool to create Buffers that are added as a Feature Layer. You should even be able to trigger it with Actions from other Widgets. https://doc.arcgis.com/en/experience-builder/latest/configure-widgets/analysis-widget.htm

It is also possible to create Buffers with the Analysis tools built directly into the Web Map Viewer.

Note that either of these options will consume credits.

[HafidaAttar]

Thank you for this solution. We have to evaluate if this solution is practical for us.

[HafidaAttar]

I discovered that it's possible to create buffers with an Arcade expression in AGOL. Does anyone know how to do this?

[JeffreyThompson2]

https://developers.arcgis.com/arcade/function-reference/geometry_functions/#buffer

Arcade is typically used for low-intensity analysis for some text output like a Popup. As far as I know, analysis generated by Arcade can't be saved or added to a map.

Furthermore, Experience Builder does not currently have direct Arcade support. (It has some limited Arcade capabilities through related applications like Web Map Viewer.)