ESRI ArcGIS Web Apps
This page is about creating web apps the ESRI way.
Overview
Entry level: This is from the ArcGIS Server documentation, so it's high level. About web GIS and from that same site, consider this article: Designing basemaps
Options
- Publish directly from ArcGIS Pro
- Use Web AppBuilder in ArcGIS Online or Portal, see ESRI overview
- Use the WebAppBuilderForArcGIS SDK
- Use the JavaScript API.
Web AppBuilder
Basically you can run Web AppBuilder on AGO or in Portal, using the version that ESRI installed for you, or you can install it and run it yourself.
ArcGIS Online
I don't care about this option at the moment. I am assuming it's a newer version of whatever we have in AGE Portal 10.6
Portal
This is what I am trying as the starting point.
Content -> Create -> App -> Template | Web AppBuilder
The template option gives you a bunch of templates. I picked Basic Viewer. I added my Taxlots layer and it picked OpenStreetMap as the base layer for me. I wonder how they make it so slow? I can click on a parcel and then eventually it creates a popup with every attribute in it. That's enough for templates.
The Web AppBuilder option launches and offers me tabs "Theme", "Map", "Widget" and "Attribute.
In Theme, I chose "Foldable Theme", then a Style, I chose GREEN because it's nice. I used the first Layout. Layouts don't appear to have names.
In Map, under "Choose web map" I switched to Light Grey Canvas. I zoomed to the county and set initial extent to "Use current map view". I set visible scales appropriately.
Web AppBuilder SDK
Downloaded and unpacked but not running it yet, coming soon.
