Experience Builder - Next Steps: Elevate Your Application

Recommended prerequisites:

  • Foundational Experience Builder Knowledge: Completion of Experience Builder – Develop Your Application by Connecting it with ArcGIS Online (or equivalent experience creating basic Experience Builder apps).
  • Working Knowledge of Widgets & Data: Familiarity with adding data sources, configuring basic widgets, and using the builder workspace.
  • Intermediate GIS Concepts: Basic understanding of spatial queries, filtering, and data relationships.

Overview:

Designed for app creators ready to move beyond standard templates, this session focuses on building sophisticated, responsive, and highly interactive web experiences. You will explore advanced builder tools to fine-tune application behavior and user flows without writing custom code.

Key Takeaways & Topics Covered:

  • Triggers & Actions: Linking widgets together so user interactions in one element (e.g., selecting a map feature or filtering a list) dynamically update other widgets.
  • Mobile & Responsive Optimization: Customizing app layouts for desktop, tablet, and mobile screen sizes using adaptive layout controls.
  • Advanced Structure & Navigation: Working with multi-page setups, views, sidebars, screen groups, and sticky headers for seamless user navigation.
  • Theme & Branding Customization: Applying consistent color palettes, custom typography, and corporate styling across all pages.
  • Custom Experience Templates: Exporting custom-designed applications as organizational templates for future reuse.

Contact information:

Please contact researchdata@rice.edu if you have questions about the Data@Rice workshop series.

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Fondren Library Basement B43A (Collaboration Space)
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