What's new

The ArcGIS Instant Apps update includes the new features, app templates, and enhancements listed below.

New apps

• Basic includes standard options such as a legend and bookmarks to provide your audience with a straightforward way to view and interact with a map or scene.
• Chart Viewer displays bar charts, line charts, histograms, and scatterplots to complement a map. Up to three charts can be viewed side by side or stacked, but you can access and view all the charts that are authored in the map.
• Countdown displays a list of locations in a map or scene ranked by values for a specified field. You can provide a summary for the ranked locations and information about the feature order. App users can pin feature information to compare and contrast with other features in the ranked list. You can apply layer effects to differentiate between active and non-active features in a list. When adding a section, you can import the settings from another section in the app for consistency.
• Exhibit—Exhibit provides a sequential presentation that tells a story using interactive slides with different map extents, which you can import from bookmarks. For each slide, you can change layer visibility and the basemap, include a pop-up for a specific feature, apply a layer filter, and provide a title and notes. You can configure the app's control panel to include tools and options, such as allowing users to play a slideshow, jump to any slide in the app, and share the current slide by exporting it as a PDF or copying a direct URL.
• Sidebar displays a map with a side panel that contains tools to edit, filter, and interact with data. It also includes a setting to export the map and feature pop-up content as a PDF. You can choose which layers to include in the layer list when you enable it for the app. You can also provide a basemap gallery and basemap toggle for users to change the basemap. For supported maps, you can include the new Utility network trace tool.
• Slider displays historical, live, or future data using any time interval. App users can play or move a time slider to animate data based on numeric values or changes over time to see how the data evolves. Choose from preset themes for the slider colors and, optionally, customize the appearance using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Updates

• You can now access Instant Apps from Scene Viewer and from the Create Web App menu when creating apps from scene item pages and group pages. When you start with a group or scene, the app gallery is organized with applicable templates at the top.
• Use the new Instant Apps filter when browsing ArcGIS content. Item details also include a new Instant App label and icon so you can identify apps created with Instant Apps.
• Try the new Suggestions feature on the Browse All tab of the templates gallery to help you choose an app based on answers to questions about your goals, the app audience, and the content you're using. As you answer each question, it filters the gallery to show applicable templates.
• The My Apps tab includes a new option to create a native app from your apps that were created from a template that has a corresponding ArcGIS AppStudio template (Nearby, Zone Lookup, and Attachment Viewer).
• When configuring apps in Express setup mode, you can now search all the settings available for the app. You're prompted to turn off Express if a setting isn't included, so you can go to the selected search result and access the setting in full setup. Use the new Express button to turn off Express setup mode any time you want to access all settings.
• Most apps now include the setting to add a find location tool that can detect the user's physical location and zoom the map to it.
• You can now set the sharing level of your app directly from the configuration window instead of going to the item page. It uses the same sharing options and will prompt you to synchronize the sharing level of the source map or scene and its dependent items that you have permission to update.
• New theme settings are available in Countdown, Portfolio, and Sidebar. You can choose from a set of predefined themes to style the app, plus options to choose fonts and custom colors.
• 3D Viewer includes a new tool for visualizing common weather types, and it can be used in conjunction with the daylight tool.
• Attachment Viewer now supports related records. If a feature has a related record, app users have the option to view its pop-up information. There's a new configuration setting that allows users to update feature attributes on editable layers. Feature-by-feature browsing in the gallery is now more intuitive because you can choose to focus on only features with attachments. When you enable the social sharing component, the link now includes parameters that preserve the current appearance of the app, such as the map extent, visible layers, and selected features, so users can share what they see.
• Interactive Legend, Nearby, and Zone Lookup now support applying layer effects to features.
• Nearby now allows you to include related records to display corresponding information appended to the feature's pop-up in the results panel. You can also provide the option to export the search results as a PDF that includes the map and pop-up content of returned features.
• Portfolio now offers three layouts: carousel, tabbed, and accordion. The new accordion layout displays expandable sections in a side panel, allowing more space for detailed descriptions. The new tabbed layout replaces the minimize option for the original carousel layout and works well for content without thumbnails. You can also add sections for web pages that support embedding.
• Zone Lookup now allows you to provide filters to narrow search results based on values associated with the feature. You can also include the options for users to draw a zone on the map, include related records in the results panel to view its pop-up information appended to the feature's pop-up, and export the search results and map as a PDF.