A better way to run geoprocessing tasks in Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS

[Music] hi my name's Paul and Aaron I'm the Technical Marketing lead here glad to Geographics today we're going to look at using the sea of processing activities found within workflow designer is showing how easy it is to run these tasks within a folder for arcgis let's get started ok so here we are web app builder for arcgis what i'm going to do first is just simply walk through the experience of adding the out of the box to your processing widget that comes with web web builder and compare that with adding a geo cortex workflow that contains the geoprocessing tasks so our activity I guess so I'm just gonna go ahead and and the out of the box do your processing widget first and just kind of show you the ad experience here it's gonna ask for the URL just using the message in a bottle service that ESRI offers very simple example I'm gonna validate it looks good so here are some options that we have these are is just the out-of-the-box options that are available using this widget we have some labels a tooltip and here's our options that we can choose from to kind of feed the workflow or sorry feed the widget it's data so I can choose a point on the map provide a shapefile select the layer on the map or can configure it a URL feature set URL to choose a point on the map that's the easiest here you also have the the ability to change the days so this is just the message in a bottle kind of experience where you choose the number of days that you want the bottle to travel basically right so I can change that default value as well that's really it that's that's what comes with the widget itself and I'm just gonna hit OK and there it is so it's it's added anything beyond this is going to be custom code and it's gonna you know require a little bit more effort to make changes or to add additional functionality that you'd like to see especially in this example this doesn't do a lot but it is quite valuable if if you add some cool tools and and the easiest way to do that is to use work geo cortex workflow so it's gonna add just show you the experience of adding at your cortex workflow to web app builder so here we go we've added the widget choose workflow and then I'm just gonna use the message in Nevada bottle sample and I'll just hit okay it's added here and we can see it running so just showing you the it's very similar to what what the out-of-the-box do you have processing widget is right now but the idea here what I want to show you is the the amount of options that you have to configure this so this is this is the basic example but here's the workflow itself and to give you an idea here's the display form that we are first prompted with and here's all of our options that we have to to choose from to kind of configure this so we have options to you know choose a time picker list box file picker add some images all this is just in the display form that's initially shown then it captures the information then we have in our in our try what we're doing is running the geoprocessing request here so there's some this is obviously try-catch so if it doesn't work it's going to provide an error message or you are prompt to you know fix the the problem that you've run into things like that just doesn't fail without any kind of warning it kind of gracefully fails for you so that's the kind of thing you can do you can imagine - as well like in this workflow if I run it here I'm just gonna just add a location here submit just a little note here - you can app you can change the symbol symbology as well so the the workflow allows you to change that symbology to whatever you want pretty easily you can imagine though in a real-world example if you wanted to sort of trace this line and do a buffer and select some parcels and things like that those are all things that you can do with workflow that that aren't exactly easy to do without writing your own custom code and you can run into difficulties with with upgrades and things like that right so a lot of automation can be done with workflow as well and all of those things can can be done within here and you can have us almost 200 activities here to choose from at all kind of complete various tasks and functionality so offers a lot of flexibility and and changes made here are reflected instantly in here and your web app builder site there's no change no need to kind of recompile or anything with your code it's the changes are made in instantly so just wanted to show you that this is just an easier way to to run these geoprocessing tasks and make them a little bit more a little bit more functionality without a lot of difficulty so that's it for today have a good one [Music]

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Length: 5min 13sec (313 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 23 2018