feature-identify-widget

Repository for the Feature Identify custom widget for ArcGIS Experience Builder Developer Edition 1.21.

Feature Identify coordinates native web map popups and one or more REST-only identify layers so a single map click produces one predictable popup, with duplicate removal, native popup data actions on configured REST results, and on-screen diagnostics for troubleshooting on any device. The full feature list, requirements, and install steps are in the widget-level README inside the feature-identify folder, which is what ships in each release zip.

• Releases (downloadable zips): https://github.com/brianmcleer/feature-identify-widget/releases
• Esri Community post: (link to be added after the community post is published)

Repo layout

feature-identify-widget/         the repo
├── README.md                    this file, the GitHub landing page
├── LICENSE                      Apache-2.0
├── .gitignore                   ignores node_modules, .vs, etc.
├── publish.ps1                  one-command publish/update automation
└── feature-identify/            the actual widget (drops into your-extensions/widgets)
    ├── manifest.json
    ├── package.json
    ├── config.json
    ├── tsconfig.json
    ├── icon.svg
    ├── README.md                install steps and troubleshooting travel with the widget
    ├── LICENSE
    ├── CHANGELOG.md
    └── src/ ...

Quick install (for widget users)

Download the zip from the latest release, extract it, and drop the feature-identify folder into client\your-extensions\widgets so that manifest.json sits directly inside your-extensions\widgets\feature-identify, never nested a second level deep. Then run the standard client install (pnpm on Experience Builder 1.21 and later) and restart the client. Full steps are in the widget-level README.

The release zip and the editor shims

The zip is the widget only. The Visual Studio type shims in the repo (feature-identify/src/exb-editor-shims.d.ts, feature-identify/src/vendor-shims.d.ts) are left out on purpose: their ambient declare module blocks are not file-scoped and would rewrite the react, jimu and esri types for every other widget in your your-extensions folder.

If you clone the repository instead of using the zip, delete feature-identify/src/exb-editor-shims.d.ts and the other shim files listed above before building; nothing else depends on them.

Publishing workflow (for the maintainer)

The Experience Builder widget folder is the single source of truth. publish.ps1 mirrors it into this repo with robocopy /MIR, commits, pushes, and optionally cuts a release. Any change you want to keep, including dependency and security fixes, must be made in the EB widget folder first; a repo-only edit is overwritten on the next publish.

From a terminal opened in this repo folder:

• Normal update: powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\publish.ps1
• Update plus release: powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\publish.ps1 -Release v1.1.0

Version tags must increase and never repeat: bug fix v1.0.1, new feature v1.1.0, major change v2.0.0.

Languages

The widget follows the Experience Builder app language: the ArcGIS profile language, the browser, ?locale=xx in the URL, or the Language Switcher widget. Interface text lives in src/runtime/translations/default.ts (and src/setting/translations/default.ts for the settings panel), with language files for all 39 Experience Builder locales made by exb-i18n-kit.

• Esri's own Experience Builder translations are used first, so shared words match the out-of-the-box widgets.
• Other strings come from the kit's shared translation memory. Machine translations are marked for review.
• Anything not translated yet shows in English.
• Coverage per language: feature-identify/i18n/STATUS.md.
• To fix a translation for every widget that uses it, open a pull request on memory/<locale>.json in exb-i18n-kit.

License

Apache-2.0. Copyright City of Grand Junction, CO.