Web AppBuilder

Leveraging Sections and View Navigation to Enhance Experience Builder Apps

Leveraging Sections and View Navigation to Enhance Experience Builder Apps

It is official: Esri has announced that ArcGIS Web AppBuilder will be retired by the end of 2024 and replaced with ArcGIS Experience Builder. All apps built in Web App Builder will need to be rebuilt in Experience Builder, which means it’s time to revitalize your existing web applications and take advantage of the new and exciting features that Experience Builder has to offer. One of the new features that is unique to Experience Builder is the ability to create Sections with multiple views of content on an individual page.

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When C.O.T.S. Works (and when it doesn't)

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When C.O.T.S. Works (and when it doesn't)

Even though we have all become more technically adept, the idea of customized programming is still out of reach for most users. However, that does not stop us from wanting the shiny buttons and slick applications. Enter COTS software. This very blog is written on COTS software. Long gone are the days when a solid grasp of HTML and CSS are needed for a great website. Squarespace, Wix, Google Sites along with probably a dozen other site builders exist to enable YOU to create your own slick website for your company, organization or department.

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Spring Clean Your Web Apps With Group Layer Lists in Web AppBuilder

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Spring Clean Your Web Apps With Group Layer Lists in Web AppBuilder

Esri plans to implement group layers for ArcGIS Online feature services in the future, but until then, here is an alternate method to clean-up content in a web app by configuring Group Layer Lists to organize layers in Web AppBuilder.

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Building a Hoops Tracker App with ArcGIS Solutions is a Three-Point Play

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Building a Hoops Tracker App with ArcGIS Solutions is a Three-Point Play

Hoops Tracker is a Esri Story Map that displays information for the 2018 Class 1A and 2A Boys Basketball Tournaments in separate web mapping applications, paired with a view of IHSA's interactive ScoreZone web page and other IHSA links.

Dashboards - No Sweat

Dashboards - No Sweat

Most of us are familiar with this idea of dashboards. A quick overview of a set of data, system or project with supporting charts, dials or graphs that emphasize particular points about the data or view. There are some ESRI tools that have been around such as the Operations Dashboard, or the analysis-focused Insights. And now as of the June 2017 update, Web AppBuilder now has built-in functions for quickly creating configurable, informative dashboards on top of your web GIS.

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5 Ways to Add a Finishing Touch to Your WAB App

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5 Ways to Add a Finishing Touch to Your WAB App

The Web Map and Widgets are the foundation of creating apps in Web AppBuilder (WAB), but there are customizations you can make to add a finishing touch to your app and make it unique.

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Prairie State Playlist: A Story Map Music Tour Through the Land of Lincoln

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Our travels here at Cloudpoint take us to many places throughout the state of Illinois (as well as many other states). In the spirit of our connections to the Prairie State, as well as our varied tastes in music, here is a Story Map that focuses on a selected set of songs that contain Illinois place names in their titles-The Prairie State Playlist.

The Prairie State Playlist is constructed using Esri's Story Map Journal template. Maps of each location comprise the "Main Stage", while information and a link to the song are in the "Side Panel." The maps for the Prairie State Playlist were created in ArcGIS Online as webmaps, and then converted to apps using Web AppBuilder, which allows for a better interface and the inclusion of widgets such as a Legend, Basemap Gallery, etc. The webmaps alone can also be included as content in the Story Map, as well as videos, images, and web pages.

Please browse the Prairie State Playlist and enjoy the music tour through the Land of Lincoln. Along the way, you might pick up some information about Bob Dylan, Tornadoes, and an EPA Superfund site.

 

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Extend your Apps with Custom Widgets in Web AppBuilder

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Extend your Apps with Custom Widgets in Web AppBuilder

Cloudpoint has successfully upgraded a number of Flex mapping applications to Javascript applications in the past year using Web AppBuilder (WAB). Some of the components that make these apps stand out are widgets that improve the user experience with the app. . Esri packages a number of basic widgets in WAB, but some developers have designed custom widgets that extend the functionality of these applications. A number of these custom widgets were available in the Flex apps and we wanted to honor our client's wishes to provide the same tools and functionality. Here we highlight a few of the custom widgets we configured for our clients.