Integrate ArcGIS apps | Documentation

ArcGIS Experience Builder interface showing the integration of an instant app, dashboard, and story into a single web application.

ArcGIS Apps Integration app which integrates an instant app, dashboard and a story using ArcGIS Experience Builder.

ArcGIS apps, such as ArcGIS Instant AppsArcGIS Instant Apps is an app builder product that allows users to quickly create and share interactive web apps without any coding.Learn more and ArcGIS DashboardsArcGIS Dashboards is an app builder product that creates configurable dashboards to visualize data, communicate information, and analyze real-time data in a single screen.Learn more, can be integrated into ArcGIS Experience BuilderArcGIS Experience Builder is a highly configurable app builder product that creates immersive web apps by combining maps, data, and interactive widgets with little to no coding.Learn more to enhance the user experience and provide additional functionality.

Why integrate using Experience Builder?

Integrating ArcGIS apps using ArcGIS Experience Builder gives you the ability to create a seamless user experience, share data, and perform enhanced data analyses.

Seamless user experience: Experience BuilderArcGIS Experience Builder is a highly configurable app builder product that creates immersive web apps by combining maps, data, and interactive widgets with little to no coding.Learn more allows you to bring together multiple ArcGIS apps into a single web applicationA web app is a mapping, analysis, or data-driven application that runs in a web browser. In most cases they are configurable and are hosted in ArcGIS.Learn more. This integration provides a unified user experienceAn experience is a configurable web application created with ArcGIS Experience Builder that provides interactive maps, data, and media.Learn more eliminating the need for users to switch between different applications.
Data and functionality integration: Experience Builder enables you to pass attribute values, geometries, and other data between different ArcGIS apps. This integration allows for dynamic data sharing and synchronization, ensuring that all apps are working with the most up-to-date information.
Enhanced data analysis: By integrating ArcGIS apps, you can use the capabilities of different apps simultaneously. For example, you can combine the visualization capabilities of dashboardsA dashboard is configurable web application created with ArcGIS Dashboards that presents location-based analytics through interactive data visualizations on a single screen.Learn more with the analytical capabilities of surveys. This integration enables more comprehensive and insightful data analysis.

Example

The Integrate ArcGIS Apps with Experience Builder demo application above, a dashboardA dashboard is configurable web application created with ArcGIS Dashboards that presents location-based analytics through interactive data visualizations on a single screen.Learn more, instant appAn instant app is a configurable web application created with templates in ArcGIS Instant Apps that displays maps and data and supports mapping workflows.Learn more, and storyA story is a web application created with ArcGIS StoryMaps that contains digital narrative which combines interactive maps, multimedia content, and text to convey information or tell a story.Learn more were added to a web application created in Experience Builder. Instructions below guide you on how the demo web app was created.

Create an integrated web app

ArcGIS Experience Builder interface showing available templates to start a new app, helping users choose a layout and configuration for their project.

Start with selecting from a list of templates.

In Experience Builder, create a new web application using a template and add three new application pages.

Select a blank scrolling template.
Create three separate application pages that will contain ArcGIS apps.

Embed ArcGIS apps

ArcGIS Experience Builder interface showing the Embed widget used to add an ArcGIS app to a web application.

Embed widget allows you to add an ArcGIS app to your experience.

Using the Embed widget, you can embed any ArcGIS app in an Experience Builder web application.

Each application page will use the Embed widget.
When a web application is built, the Embed widget will be compiled into an HTML IFrame.

Tutorials

ArcGIS Experience Builder showing a starter widget setup with the base widget implementation ready for customization.

Create a starter widget

Learn how to build the base implementation for a widget.

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ArcGIS Experience Builder app showing a custom widget that adds new data layers to the map.

Get map coordinates

Learn how to display the latitude and longitude, scale, and zoom level of the map in a custom widget..

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Add layers to a map

Learn how to add layers to a map from a custom widget.

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ArcGIS Experience Builder tutorial app showing an interactive web map about housing in America.

Get started with ArcGIS Experience Builder

Build an interactive web app about housing in America.

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