Web apps allow you to share the information in your map or scene, or to display items and related information about a shared group. A web app is a customized user interface that focuses your map or scene for a specific purpose, message, and audience. For example, if you want to showcase your map, your app only needs a few basic navigation tools. If your map will be used to collect feedback from the public, it will need specialized data editing tools and instructions for how to enter the information.
For apps created from maps or scenes, any changes the author makes to the map or scene—including such properties as its extent, layers, or description—are reflected in the app. If a map or scene that was available to everyone in the organization is made private (or deleted), the map or scene no longer appears in the app.
For apps created from groups, any changes made to the group or items in the group are reflected in the app. If an item that was public or shared with the group is made private or is deleted, the item no longer appears in the app.
Share an app
To share an app, complete the following steps:
- Verify that you are signed in to your organization.
Your account must be a member of the default administrator role or a custom role assigned the set of privileges to share content.
- At the top of the site, click Content then click the My Content tab.
- Open the app you want to share.
- Share your app using ArcGIS Instant Apps, ArcGIS Experience Builder, ArcGIS Dashboards, ArcGIS StoryMaps, or ArcGIS Hub.
Note:
If your organization does not allow anonymous access, share the public URL to the app (https://www.arcgis.com) rather than the URL that includes your organization name (https://<organization_name>).
Share apps publicly that contain subscriber content
Sharing apps publicly helps extend the reach of your message. If the map used by an app contains content from ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, the app may require credentials to access the content. Most of the ArcGIS Living Atlas content is free and can be viewed by anyone. However, a subset of layers, tools, and services known as subscriber content requires an organizational account to access. Subscriber content includes Landsat 8 imagery and landscape analysis layers. Premium content is a type of subscriber content that also consumes credits. Premium content includes demographic maps and tools for geocoding and analytics.
To share an app publicly that contains subscriber content, you can configure the app to allow access to the content through your organizational subscription so that app users aren't prompted to sign in to access those layers in your app. You can track app usage and disable sharing later if needed. Configuring access to subscriber content in the app is an optional setting in some of the builders, such as ArcGIS Dashboards. Other app builders, including ArcGIS Instant Apps, ArcGIS StoryMaps, and ArcGIS Experience Builder, automatically authorize public access to subscriber content in the app and prompt you to authorize any premium content when you publish the app. To determine how a specific app builder handles subscriber content, refer to the respective app documentation.
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Any credits that users consume by accessing premium content in the app will be charged to your organization. If you do not want to consume credits on behalf of app users, do not enable any of the premium layers to be accessible through your subscription. This way, users will be required to provide their own credentials for consuming credits. However, keep in mind that if you do this, you will limit who can access your app to users who have an organizational account with privileges to access premium content and available credits. For public apps, you must either remove all premium content from the map or configure the app to have your organization incur the credit costs. If you want to minimize credit costs incurred for premium content in an app, you can limit the number of requests allowed for each premium content layer when you configure the app or modify the configuration.