What’s New

5.12 - 14 April 2021

New Features

• Added the ability to show and hide components and menu items within an application based upon individual users or groups within the Esri Portal or ArcGIS Online organization. While not true security, this provides a significant tool for tailoring actions and information to different types of users within your organization. Common use cases include:

  • Providing a limited set of tools and information to anonymous users and expanding what is available once a user has signed in.

  • Making role-specific workflows, reports, and tools available to users within a specific group, while hiding them from others.

  • Creating an application that has more focused UI options for various groups of users.

  • This feature controls the visibility of UI elements on the client side; it does not prevent the content from arriving at the user's client application. This feature focuses on UI; for control over map data, use Access Control.

  • In addition to Esri identity users and groups, this feature includes a few built-in system values for: All Users, Anonymous Users, Authenticated Users.

  • This feature follows standard Deny-before-Allow patterns. This means that if a user is in two groups, and one of those groups allows them to see Component A, while the other group does not allow them to see Component A; Deny "wins" and the user will be unable to see Component A.

• Social sharing features via URL are now available in Geocortex Web. A new Get Sharing Link command generates a URL that includes the map center point, map scale, selected basemap, and selected layers allowing you to share the URL via e-mail, or social networks to have someone else see the same map view you were viewing. Behind the scenes this was implemented by introducing new URL parameters that are also available for use:

• center-default URL parameter defines the map's center point. This provides maximum accuracy when moving between desktop and mobile devices with a sharing link.

• scale-default URL parameter defines the map's scale.

• basemap-default URL parameter defines the map's basemap.

• layers-default URL parameter defines the visible / not-visible state of the layers on the map.

• Save / Load Project is now available in Geocortex Web. This file-based feature focuses on saving and loading the complete map and data of an application between working sessions. A project file will save the following information:

• Map location - center point, scale, and rotation.

• Map layers - basemap selected and visible / not-visible state of layers.

• User-added layers from Portal or ArcGIS Online.

• User-added layers from CSV, XLSX and Shapefile.

• User-added drawing / markup / redlining.

• User-added measurements.

• Current results set from search or identify operations.

• Current selected feature.

• Active layout in multi-layout apps.

• Layer Catalog functionality is now available. A new Portal service has been added to Web Designer. The application author can include one or more tags which will restrict the add layer interface in the application to content that matches the specified tags. This tag-based approach allows application authors to create tag-based collections of authoritative data in their Esri Portal or ArcGIS Online organization and then include one or more of those tags in their apps. For ArcGIS Online, those tags can also match layers outside your organization. When configuring this in ArcGIS Online, we recommend you use sufficiently unique tags such as gcx-layer-catalog-myorg-forestry.

• Significantly improved the UX for working with components or sub-trees of components between layouts in your application or between applications. The Add Component button at the bottom of the configured component tree now contains additional options to copy components from another layout in your app, or from another application. In both cases a new side-by-side interface is presented making it easy to drag components, or trees of components between layouts or between applications. Behavioral changes to be aware of:

• Unlike the existing options to get or export configuration that focus only on the component configuration and ignore layout settings; this new mechanism copies both component configuration and layout properties.

• In multi-layout apps, when adding a new component or copying components between layouts if it is possible to link component configuration between layouts; we will do so by default.

• Basemaps now support linking to metadata. In the Basemap Picker component UI, each configured basemap now has an interactive info icon. Clicking this icon brings up a list of all layers contained in the basemap. When the layers have a properly configured Esri metadata configuration behind them, they are rendered as hyperlinks so you can directly access the configured metadata (opens in a new browser tab).

• Added configuration options for enabling Search and Identify on layers within configured Custom Basemaps. Search and Identify are disabled by default.

• Pinpoint Search in Web Designer is now permanently docked in the empty area left behind when the application preview is popped-out for use on a second monitor.

• The Map ID is now included in the help text for the Map component. This makes locating the ID far easier for use with the Workflow Set Map activity.

• Added a print preview for 3D scenes. Previously you could print web scenes, however, you did not have the option to visualize and adjust your settings prior to the print being initiated.

• Added support for the Workflow Run Print activity.

Behavioral Changes and UX Improvements

• Updated the Capital City data set used as the default in our templates. Improvements included replacing the tax parcels layer with an attribute-rich neighborhood layer to better support demonstrating charts and KPI cards and the introduction of relationships between fire hydrants, water lines, and buildings to better demonstrate the navigation behavior of related data.

• Improved the behavior of polygon Identify operations in 3D scenes. Previous behavior was to take the center point of the polygon and perform the Identify. The improved implementation should identify any shape that intersects with the identify polygon (on the ground surface).

• The chart and KPI Card components have been updated with navigation links making it easier to explore and locate places in your app configuration that may be updating the content of your chart or KPI card.

• The Map ID is now included in the help text for the Map component. This makes locating the ID far easier for use with the Workflow Set Map activity.

• Updated the behavior of application deployment management so that portal admins can now deploy content to previously deployed environments even if they are not the direct owner of the items that will be updated.

• Pinpoint Search indexing is now separated into a quick, most-common mode by default with the ability to request a full map data crawl which might take many seconds on a large web map.

• Modified what happens when you attempt to open an app not owned by you in Web Designer. You are now prompted to save a copy of the app immediately so that resources from the original can be copied over to the newly created portal item.

• Modified the configuration interface for startup and event-based workflows to allow for the configuration of a title and icon, which may be desirable in certain use cases.

• Added a new configuration pattern in Web Designer supporting simple lists of single values. This prevents requiring a drill-in action to change a single value. A good example of this new interaction is the list of Resolutions within the Printing component.

• Changed how application deployment management writes test, staging, and production workflow items so that the View Application action in the Esri portal now takes you to the test, staging, and production versions of the workflow.

Technology

• Added support for asynchronous Arcade script. In practice, this means that any Arcade script you configure in Esri's map viewer interface will work correctly regardless of whether it is a synchronous or asynchronous Arcade script.

• Added touch support for the map context menu for tablet and handheld devices.

• Updated the code that passes information to Printing and Reporting to pass the title of the template for naming of the PDF output.

• Strengthened security checks on custom sub-domains. Geocortex Web will no longer load if an unregistered sub-domain is specified in the URL.

• The Workflow runtime version is now logged at startup in the Geocortex Web console log.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue in tasks.identify where it was not properly respecting the sources argument. This prevented the configuration of Map.onHover map tips from being limited to a specific set of layers in the application [44560] .

• Resolved an issue that prevented multi-field type charts and XY plot types when using Workflow as your data source [44853].

• Resolved an issue that prevented the measurement tools from functioning correctly when the app was configured in projections other than Web Mercator/WGS84 [44396].

• Resolved an issue where layers with SQL Function Fields cannot be converted to Arcade features [45153].

• Resolved an issue where events configured to run a Workflow would incorrectly close another Workflow displaying a form [45002].

• Resolved an issue that prevented certain types of imagery layers from hanging on app load in Web Designer [45197].

• Resolved an issue where Listbox form item output was handled differently in Geocortex Web than in Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 [45202].

• Resolved an issue where field token names were displayed instead of field token values in configured web map pop-up configuration [45110].

• Resolved an issue where not all configured pop-up attribute fields were showing up correctly in Geocortex Web for raster layers [45354].

• Corrected the API logic around the display of the description text in pop-up configuration to match Esri's documented rules [41522].

• Resolved an issue where the bookmarks component was incorrectly creating additional copies of bookmarks when toggling back and forth between a 2D map and a 3D scene [45314].

5.11 - 10 February 2021

New Features

• A brand new layer comparison tool, also known as the swipe tool, has been added to the map component. In addition to standard Esri swipe tool behavior, this tool supports labeling each side of the divider that can be dragged, and an option to allow end users to add and remove layers, making this a valuable layer comparison analysis tool.

• Significant improvements to the default search behavior. The algorithm was improved to allow for results outside the current map extent to be included. Results within the map extent will receive a higher ranking in the results. This change includes an adjustment to ensure that clicking on a geocoder suggestion gives you a more exact match.

• Enhanced the tabs component to allow greater control of where the tabs appear in your layout. Instead of being fixed at the top, tabs can now be placed horizontally or vertically along any of the four sides of the layout area.

• External links, also known as feature hyperlinks, are now configurable for each layer in a map component. External links support token representation of attribute data for the feature and location of the feature. This creates an effective way to link out from a Feature Details view to an external system with contextual data as part of the URL. Common use cases include opening a new browser tab showing street level imagery at the feature location, or opening an enterprise business system with the feature's ID already specified.

• Added a basemap clicked event for each configured basemap in the basemap picker. This allows the default behavior to be extended. For example, if you wanted to load a particular layer preset when a particular basemap is selected by the end user.

• Added a new geolocation.get-position operation for use by command chains and workflows.

• Added a 3D point cloud identify provider to enable configured content to appear in Feature Details for identify actions on point clouds.

• Added support to display RasterInfo information in Feature Details for ImageryLayer layers.

• Added a mandatory privacy policy element. By default this will appear as part of your user component. You can change the location via configuration if another location better suits your application. If an application detects no privacy policy element it will be automatically added at runtime in an application footer area. In addition to a link to the Geocortex privacy policy, there is a configurable markdown text area that can be used to display your own privacy and legal conditions, links, logo images, and so on.

Behavioral Changes and UX Improvements

• The action buttons that can appear at the bottom of a Workflow form are now sticky. In longer forms, this ensures the buttons and the actions associated with them are always visible to the end user.

• When the measurement system is configured to Auto, you will now see the type of units that have been automatically detected, that is, (Metric) and (US Customary).

• The notifications subsystem that places snackbar notifications at the top of your application now supports auto-dismiss timer capabilities. Success and Info notifications will now auto-dismiss by default, while warning and error notifications will continue to require manual dismissal.

• Esri's default map attribution information now appears at the bottom of each map and scene.

Technology

• Significant improvements to our shapefile import code to allow a wider variety of shapefile formats to be accepted even if they don't have objectIDs (we generate them) or specify a coordinate system (we automatically determine as best we can).

• You are now able to manually add language strings to your app.json configuration to supply missing language strings, or to override existing language strings with an improved description or translation.

• Identify was updated to optionally use existing, client-side data already present from loading the visible map extent, rather than re-querying services for data. This results in significantly increased performance for identify.

• The underlying code that saves layer configuration (extensions) was extended to ensure that when a map component contained both a map and a scene, the complete union of layer configuration across both the map and the scene would be saved.

• When importing configuration from other apps in Web Designer, apps older than your current version will now be automatically upgraded in memory to ensure correct syntax for your version.

• Improved security of IIS HTTP headers to a more modern mechanism using X-Content-Type-Options.

Bug Fixes

• Verified the resolution of an Esri bug that prevented ArcGIS Identity authentication in Microsoft Edge [31186,14307].

• Resolved a visual alignment issue in the rendering of Item Picker radio buttons in a Workflow form [44140].

• Resolved an issue with 3D hit test that caused an identify to return the next-to-closest instead of closed 3D object first [37895].

• Resolved an issue that prevented XLSX and CSV exports on results that were in the RD New projection [44141].

• Resolved an issue preventing apps from loading for 'viewer' level Portal identities [42434].

• Resolved an issue that prevented the highlights.add command from working properly with multipoint geometry types [44184].

5.10 - 2 December 2020

New Features

• Geocortex Web now supports Buffer tools, which locate nearby results. These tools include:

• An out of the box Buffer Identify tool.

• An out of the box Buffer Results tool.

• A new buffer.geometry operation.

• A new geometry.show-settings command that prompts users for the Buffer Units and Buffer Distance to use when buffering.

• New Geometry service settings in Web Designer, Buffer Units and Buffer Distance, allowing the configuration of default application behavior.

• Updated the Map Coordinates component to allow application configuration of the default coordinate system display, as well as decimal places and precision options.

• Added MGRS, USNG, and UTM as coordinate formats to display.

• Added the optional ability for the end user to select the coordinate format to display.

• Extended the Measurement service in Web Designer to allow default application measurement units to be set. Auto Scaling units remain the recommended default.

• Extended the Measurement tool in Geocortex Web to allow end users to set their preferred measurement units. Measurement units set by the end user are stored between sessions as part of user preferences. Auto Scaling units remain the recommended default.

• A dedicated Geocortex Inline component has been added to Web Designer. This component wraps the Geocortex Inline product to make it far easier to add and configure.

• When basemaps contain layers, those layers can now be configured to display in the Legend if supported. As Esri's default is to show basemap layers in the Legend, existing applications will now show basemap layers in the legend. You can easily update your app to disable this if desired. For new applications, the default behavior is not to include basemap layers in the Legend.

• Added commands and operations to allow for Workflow-driven control of the Basemap Picker component. These include: basemap.get-all, basemap.get-current, and basemap.set. These and a new onClick event for the Basemap Picker component will be exposed in the next version of Web Designer.

• A layer icon can now be configured for each layer. This optional icon is used by several components including the Layer List and Results List to create a visual identity for a layer.

• A failure behavior is now configurable on each layer. This allows the application creator to determine what happens when a specified layer is inaccessible or fails to load. Options include Halt Map Load, Warn End User, and Silent Failure. Warn End User remains the default behavior.

• An action to unlink components that are currently sharing configuration is now available. Soon you will have the ability to create your own shared configuration between components in addition to the examples below that are part of the out of the box application templates.

• One example is feature actions on Results List and Results Table. By default, configuring feature actions in either component changes a shared set of feature actions. Sometimes you may wish to configure the feature actions on results list and results table independently.

• Another example is mutli-layout templates. Components appearing in both layouts often share configuration. Configuring the component in one layout automatically updates the component in the other layout. In some cases you may wish to configure the components in the different layouts independently.

Behavioral Changes and UX Improvements

• Updated the file download tools to ensure the downloaded data is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), reflecting what is visible to the end user within Web Designer.

• It is possible for workflows to specify the target component to run within. Now Web Designer provides you with a list of valid targets in your app to choose from. The default behavior has been left as Auto determine.

• Extended the 'on Save' validation checks within Web Designer. Checks now include:

• Looking for and reporting any missing or inaccessible Esri portal items.

• Looking for and reporting any invalid config item references. Invalid references occur most often when something in your app is referencing something else that has been removed.

• Enhanced the information provided to include specific item IDs when Web Designer is unable to deploy the app to the next environment due to items existing across multiple Esri portals.

• There is now a visual busy animation displayed over a workflow form when it is busy or in progress. This improves the end user's experience by removing uncertainty about state.

• Updated colors in the Dark theme to darken and create greater visual contrast. Existing applications will receive this change the next time you make any adjustment to your branding color.

• When a Map is returned as part of your Pinpoint search results, it is now always listed first to make it more readily accessible.

Technology

• Refactored the 2D/3D map swap functionality to significantly improve performance. The swap is now nearly instantaneous.

• Refactored the index building for Pinpoint search in Web Designer to significantly improve performance.

• Updated and improved the SDK sample demonstrating embedding a synchronized third-party map (Mapillary).

• Add a new SDK sample demonstrating how to wrap an ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.x widget and make it a Geocortex Web component.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue that caused ArcGISTiledImageServiceLayers to be incorrectly written to configuration, causing the app to break. This issue was resolved and released in a 5.9.1 hotfix. [43333]

• Resolved an issue that caused the Results Table to function incorrectly when trying to display an expression-generated attribute field [43471].

• Resolved an issue that prevented workflow-generated feature sets from properly displaying in the Results Table [43386].

• Resolved an issue with the Tabs component where it would sometimes leave an empty, disabled tab behind when the content was deactivated [43476].

• Resolved an issue that caused visual flickering of content in Workflow auto-complete content [37385].

• Resolved an issue that caused Workflow auto-complete to incorrectly switch focus away from auto-complete while entering keystrokes [40780].

• Resolved an issue that prevented the correct display of complex symbology for some layers [43706].

• Resolved a naming consistency issue for Workflow form element CSS classes, making it easier to apply high level CSS styling to Workflow forms [41946].

• Resolved an issue that prevented Partner-supplied templates from loading properly in Web Designer that were configured to store items in an Esri Enterprise Portal [43508].

• Resolved an issue with French language strings where some of the translated strings had reverted to a test string of nonsense characters [43626].

5.9 - 7 October 2020

New Features

• On-hover map tips are now available in Geocortex Web. This was a frequently requested feature in previous Geocortex viewer frameworks. This new feature appears in the Web GIS - Default template and is actually comprised of several new smaller capabilities.

• Added Map Hovering and Map Hovered events to the Map component.

• Added a new Popup slot to the Map component model.

• Added a new Result Summary component, which provides a more compact and abbreviated view of a single feature than the existing Result Details component.

• Added a new Add Layer tool that allows end users of a Geocortex Web application to browse their Esri Portal or ArcGIS Online to locate layers and then add them directly to their map. This new tool contains a new portal.choose-layers command that provides a UI for browsing and filtering portal content by the end user.

• The application deployment pipeline within Web Designer for Development - Testing - Staging - Production management now fully supports Geocortex capabilities products for Workflow, Reporting, and Printing. The next time you deploy your Development app forward in the deployment pipeline, Web Designer will now create and manage copies of the workflows, reports and print templates used by your application. This means that you can continue to develop and test your workflows without affecting your deployed Production application. This also means that if you want to make a change to a Production workflow, you must modify the workflow connected to your Development application and then use the Deploy Pipeline to push that change through to Production. You will continue to have the same easy, iterative flow for rapidly adjusting and re-running your workflows as part of the design experience of your Development application.

• Added support for Esri's new layer blending capabilities.

• Added new tilt options for map markers to allow 3D markers to show not only direction but also tilt angle. This enables additional use cases for map markers when they are used to represent a particular point of view from a linked third-party application such as Mapillary.

• Added a new results.intersect command. The primary use for this command is to remove results from the results set that are currently filtered out in the Results Table view.

• Added style configuration to button components. Previously, buttons self-styled depending on where they were. Buttons on the map had one appearance, and buttons in other parts of the application had another appearance. You can now set the style of buttons directly to Square or Rounded.

• Added support for the new Workflow Run Report activity ability to send a serialized version of the current map view to the report. This supports a commonly requested use case of including a WYSIWYG map image from the end user's current application session as part of a report.

• Added support for the new Workflow Switch Map activity which allows running workflows to change which map they are targeting at runtime. This enables use cases where a workflow is to focus on specific maps, or even to iterate through a series of maps that are contained in a Geocortex Web application.

Behavioral Changes and UX Improvements

• Extended the Save logic in Web Designer to perform additional checks and provide additional feedback.

• When a settings property and its form are in a visible error state, a save operation is no longer permitted. For example, you are configuring a component and enter 'bob' as a margin value when it should be numeric.

• When a save is requested, there is now a check for broken configuration item references. If found, the save is prevented and the user is informed. For example, a component is added to a layout, and then a button is configured to activate that component, but the component is then removed from the layout. The button contains a reference to something that no longer exists.

• Significant improvements to the visual representation of the component tree in Web Designer to make it more immediately obvious what is collapsed and expanded, and which items are grouped together within the hierarchy.

• Re-organized and improved the visual representation of settings of each component. It is now far easier to visually connect settings with their section heading. It is also now easier to visually identify collapsed sections that contain additional settings, such as Events.

• When configuring a command the options to create a new workflow or create a new report are no longer in their own Create New tab. These options have moved to be buttons at the bottom of their respective Workflows and Reports tabs.

• Enhanced the Get Configuration component import feature to allow you to specify the intended parent of a dependent component. For example, if you are importing a Compass component which depends on a Map component into an application that has three maps, you will now be able to select which map you want the incoming component to be associated with.

• Moved the Add Component button from above the component tree to below the component tree to better match a user's natural tendency to look for buttons and actions below content.

Technology

• Geocortex Web has been updated to use the ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.16.

• In anticipation of upcoming work to allow for internationalization of report and print output, Geocortex Web now passes the user's locale to our Printing and Reporting products.

• Improved the application and map initialization logic to ensure that a map is fully initialized before a startup workflow is run upon it.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue that caused coded domains within sublayers to incorrectly display their code rather than their value [42178].

• Resolved an issue where the autocomplete action in a Workflow form would cause a loss of focus to that field [42342].

• Resolved an issue preventing the correct clearing of temporary geometry markup when a workflow ended [40842].

• Resolved several small but incorrect behaviors related to Workflow numbers and Workflow radio group behaviors [42201, 42205, 42206].

• Resolved an issue where the Workflow number picker was not respecting the Required property [42301].

• Resolved an issue on click actions not being supported for charts driven directly from configuration. This prevented developers from using the charting library to build custom charts and still have interactivity with them. [42942].

5.8 - 5 August 2020

New Features

• Added a new Plot Location Marker feature which makes it easy to mark a location on a map or scene, and to see that same location indicated on all other maps and scenes within the application. This is particularly helpful in confirming you are looking at the same geospatial location in both 2D and 3D.

• Added commands and operations for adding layers to the application from CSV, XLSX, and ShapeFile. This can now be done programmatically, via a workflow, or by the end user of the application.

• Added a new viewer operation, viewer.get-capabilities, which provides information about the height, width, pointer/touch/hover support, aspect ratio, and orientation. This information is useful for many things, but the primary use case is to use the Application Initializing event when the application starts up to assess the capabilities of the viewer 'device' and select the optimal layout from the application.

• Rebuilt and improved the User component. The component now takes up less visual space in your application and has a fly-out that can include components as well as hosting a configurable actions menu.

• Added a new hybrid workflow-parameterized report template that illustrates the common pattern of using workflow to gather user input parameters and then run a corresponding report.

• The Delete Application dialog in Web Designer now also shows you workflows, report templates, and print templates referenced by your application. This allows you to easily clean up referenced portal items that you have generated, or that are no longer needed. These items are not checked by default.

• A short, unobtrusive tutorial option has been added to Web Designer to highlight the most important aspects of the configuration interface to help new users get started.

• Updated Workflow forms rendering in Geocortex Web to support the new collapsible sections in Workflow forms.

• Several new workflow templates have been added that you can generate directly from Web Designer to jump start your workflow efforts with a working example. These include:

  • Address Lookup (no context required)

  • Get Position (no context required)

  • Draw on Map (no context required)

  • Route Between Points (no context required)

  • Buffer Feature Geometry (feature context)

  • Reverse Geocode Feature (feature context)

  • Get Map Context (map context)

  • Buffer Point (map context)

  • Reverse Geocode (map context)

  • Route to Location (map context)

Behavioral Changes and UX Improvements

• Updated the rendering behavior of the Expand layout container to better automatically resize based on the size of its content.

• Updated the matching logic in our swap layout tool in Web Designer to automatically match up components between two layouts if there is only one component of that type, even if the IDs are different.

• The two toggle buttons that change how results are visualized (grouping and detail level) in the Results List are now backed by user preferences and will be remembered between application sessions.

• Improved the display of configured workflows in Web Designer so that instead of seeing a large block of JSON, you now see just the configured workflow name and a small block of JSON for input arguments.

Technology

• Improved the code that determines when and how a configured workflow is run. This resolved both some significant edge cases, but also a few important primary use cases such as returning to the parent workflow form once a child workflow form was closed.

• Added the ability in Web Designer to allow international partners to supply country-specific contact information on the sign-on page, and country-specific app templates for the dashboard view.

• Updates to the subsystem handling results to allow for use cases where applications need to contain multiple results lists or results tables each containing different sets of results.

• Updated the schema for results.from-graphics to allow the specification of attribute data. This allows workflows to supply data back to Geocortex Web that contains attribute data for display.

• Extended the concept of Tools (a named command chain pattern) in Web Designer to allow them to be defined and registered. This enables developers to build and register their own tools that will be respected by Designer.

• Significant work in Web Designer to better handle broken configuration when loading Designer. For example, if the web map that your application was referencing no longer exists you can now still get into your application in Designer in order to update your web map.

• Optimized the code that renders graphics generated from a workflow to significantly improve performance.

• When the debug URL parameter is used with Geocortex Web, Workflow debugging is now also turned on.

• Added support for proxyRules and proxyUrl as defined in the Esri API so that if they are configured (manually, no UI yet) they will be passed to the Esri API.

Bug Fixes

• Internal WCAG AA compliance testing found a number of issues that had crept in. Approximately 5 issues were resolved. These issues were related to keyboard control and navigation.

• Resolved an issue that prevented web map attributes derived from configured expressions from being included in exports [41510].

• Resolved an issue where exports were not respecting the field order configured in the web map [39750].

• Resolved an issue where the initial order of fields in the Results Table did not respect the field order configured in the web map [39720].

5.7 - 10 June 2020

New Features

• Added a new Compact View capability to Geocortex Web that allows for greater information density in an app by reducing white space in components such as Layer List, Results List, Results Table and Result Details.

• Added a new User Preferences component that can be included in your app layout. This new component allows end users to specify the visual theme, measurement system and the information density of their app. These settings are remembered and applied the next time the app is loaded.

• Added a new Dialog component that can be included in your app layout. This new layout container allows components or workflows to be displayed in a modal dialog on top of your app.

• Added a new multi-layout app template to Web Designer. This new template features two different layouts, shows how to switch back and forth between those layouts, and demonstrates how to use the Application Initializing event in the App service to specify which layout you want to be the default layout on app load.

• Added tools to support map filter effects that are part of ArcGIS API for JavaScript. These new tools, and their underlying commands can be configured within your app to provide alternate map-based visualizations to the standard highlighting and focus behaviors within Geocortex Workflow. For example, you can configure your app so that hovering over a chart element fades out all map features that are not represented as part of that chart element.

• Added a new Switch Layout tool in Web Designer to make it easier to configure a layout switch action.

• Updated the Expand component options and behavior. Expands will now automatically close if the user clicks outside the expanded area, or on another Expand component. Adjusted the Expand pop-over logic so that it is not confined to the map area; this allows a larger and more natural pop-over behavior when working in smaller map spaces. In addition to an icon, Expands can now be shown in the app with a text label, or both an icon and a text label.

• Web Designer now has a Measure service that allows you to more easily customize the color of measurement markup in your app. Also updated the rendering of measurement markup so that it has properly contrasting double line borders for WCAG AA accessibility compliance.

• Web Designer now has a Draw service that allows you to more easily customize the color of red line and drawing markup in your app. Also changed the app default color from black to red.

• Pinpoint Search in Web Designer now includes inline help descriptions to make it even easier to locate what you are looking for. Where applicable, the help descriptions also include direct links to relevant documentation.

• For customers who want to extend the functionality of Geocortex Web using Workflow by coding custom components, we are pleased to announce the Geocortex Workflow SDK, samples, and API documentation are now available at our Geocortex Developer Center.

• Supporting the new SDK, in the File menu of Web Designer, you will find a new Upload Library interface that allows your custom code to be uploaded and stored as an app item resource.

• The Download App action within Web Designer now includes any app resources from your Esri portal app item, which may include images or custom libraries uploaded through Web Designer.

• Several new commands and operations were added to make it faster and easier to build workflows that can filter and interact with Charting and KPI Card features. These include:

  • charts.get-definition

  • charts.get-features

  • charts.update-definition

  • kpi.get-definition

  • kpi.get-features

  • kpi.update-definition

  • results.get-features

  • results.filter

Behavioral Changes and UX Improvements

• Updated visual display of Feature Details to ensure better use of available space. These changes include a more compact and consistent rendering of feature action buttons, reducing white space, and a new responsive rendering of feature attributes, file attachments, and related records that will better use left-to-right space by displaying these elements in columns as horizontal space grows.

• Charts have been updated so that hovering over a chart element automatically highlights the relevant features on the map.

• Multiple improvements to the component-editing interface were made in this release based upon end-user feedback. These improvements include:

• Configuration fields for text and numeric entry will now automatically submit their contents after a brief delay when you finish typing. This removes the need to "click away" to submit the last field you were editing.

• A brief visual 'Applied' now appears in the interface each time a configuration setting is modified and applied. This helps make it clear that configuration is being applied to the live preview, and also helps in understanding which settings have changed.

• Significantly enhanced error state visualization so that a configuration interface containing an error will always be visible even if that error is scrolled out of the current view. As additional changes to configuration settings are not applied until the error state is resolved, changed settings that have not yet been applied are also now uniquely highlighted.

• A persistent Close button has been placed at the bottom of the configuration interface to provide an easier way to indicate you are finished with the interface and ready to move on. This Close button does exactly the same thing as the existing Back button at the top of the configuration interface.

• A visually unique highlight has been added to the last component interacted with in the Components panel. This makes it obvious when a component is added or moved. This also ensures when you use Pinpoint Search to locate a component and return to the Components panel, the last component you were viewing is clearly visible.

• Added an explicit Delete interface to the File menu as a more discoverable mechanism to delete apps within Web Designer.

Technology

• Geocortex Web has been updated to use the latest ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.15.

• Added an optional argument to the supported arguments used to run a workflow. This allows a workflow invocation to target a specific map in those layout configurations where the target map cannot be automatically inferred based on the layout hierarchy.

• Added a new capability for command argument merging. In practice, this allows a command in a chain of commands reference previous information, while still being able to uniquely define its own information.

• Optimized API module dependencies for performance and clarity.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where 3D highlights were not properly respecting Z values [39157].

• Resolved an issue where modifying the web map layers could break layer presets and make it impossible to configure layer presets in Web Designer [40012].

• Resolved an issue that prevented several types of WMTS services to load with a spatial reference error. [39391].

• Resolved an issue where when a workflow form ran a sub-workflow with a form, upon completion of the sub-workflow, the original workflow form was no longer accessible or visible [40116].

• Resolved an issue where the Results Table was not respecting the web map pop-up configuration controlling the visibility of feature attributes [39720].

• Resolved an issue that caused newly generated workflows for Get Related Records to be non-functional [39581].

• Resolved an issue in workflow auto-complete logic that caused strange focus behavior and prevented proper JSON conversion for Alerts [40600, 40602].

• Resolved an issue that prevented manually configured lengthUnits and areaUnits from properly serializing [40631].

• Resolved an issue with sublayer lookup that was not respecting non-numeric layer IDs [40439].

5.6 - 1 April 2020

New Features

• In addition to the charting capabilities, you now have a component for displaying Key Performance Indicator (KPI) cards. These KPI cards can be included as part of your application layout and feature key numbers along with time-based increases and decreases. These KPI cards can also contain a title, an icon, and support conditional formatting. With KPI cards you can create dashboard-like web GIS apps and, because they are based on Geocortex Web, you still have full access to the growing collection of tools, workflows, reports, and more that are unavailable in other dedicated dashboard frameworks.

• New tools and the underlying viewer commands were added for downloading results from Geocortex Web to CSV, XLSX, and Shapefile. Due to technical limitations, this feature does not work on iOS devices prior to iOS 13.

• Convert default command tools (command chains) to Geocortex Workflow. Configurability is a key value of Geocortex Web. The default command tools shown in Web Designer are made up of smaller building blocks that are chained together. Within Web Designer, you can view and modify these JSON command chains in Web Designer. You can now take an additional step and convert these command chains into a workflow. The generated workflow behaves the same way the coded defaults of Geocortex Web behave as a starting point for your extension and enhancement. To try this today, create a new app with the Web GIS Default template, open the Toolbar component, and click the Identify tool. Click the Customize icon to view the JSON, then click the Convert to Workflow icon to generate an equivalent workflow.

• Generate Report from map layers. When adding feature actions to layers in Web Designer, in addition to being able to generate workflows from templates, you are now able to generate a default features Report from a template. The generated report will be pre-configured to connect directly to your layer data source and is a great starting point.

• Expanded the number of Geocortex Web events that are configurable through the Web Designer interface. In many cases, these events are initially hidden and can be accessed by expanding the Events section.

• Application events: Application Initializing and Application Initialized.

• Layout events: Layout Loading and Layout Loaded.

• Feature Details events: Result Added, Result Removed, Result Shown and Result Hidden.

• Map events: Map Clicked, Map Initialized and Map Viewpoint Changed.

• Search events: Search Cleared and Search.

• Results List / Results Table events: Result Clicked, Result Added, Result Removed, Result Shown, Result Hidden, Result Hovering, Result Hovered, Result Selected and Result Deselected.

• Predefined Map tool: Identify Details (available in the Map Clicked event and Context Menu).

• The Web Designer interface now offers an interactive Desktop/Tablet/Handheld preview sizing control that includes presets for the most common devices on the market. Complete with an orientation toggle, you can now rapidly see what your interactive application preview looks like on a variety of devices.

• A new Margin layout attribute was added to components in the Web Designer interface to allow you to add additional space between a component and its surroundings.

• The Branding service in Web Designer now allows you to specify both the title and the icon of the browser tab for your Geocortex Web applications. Prior to this, you always saw Geocortex Web and the Geocortex Web favicon.

Behavioral Changes and UX Improvements

• The Results List component visualization was updated to responsively make far better use of available horizontal space. As the results list grows in size, two or even three columns of data are displayed.

• The Locale menu in Web Designer has been modified to present only languages (for example, en) rather than languages and locales (for example, en-FR), and is now named the Language menu. This change was made because the majority of users do not need region-specific locales and don’t understand standard internationalization fallback. In practice, administrators were mistakenly configuring a locale when they really should have been configuring a language. It is still possible to manually add a locale if you really need it. Work was also done to write system default values to language strings as new languages are added.

• Re-design of Sharing Permissions and Delete App dialogs to ensure consistency of information and action. For example, you now see sharing metadata and can open the item in the Delete App dialog, where previously that was only available in the Sharing Permissions dialog. We also removed the simple assign permission menu and replaced it with the ability to open the collection of items in your Esri portal. This enables you to set permission on all or a selection of the items, and includes the Esri interface for sharing items with groups.

Technology

• Introduced a new pattern within Geocortex Web that allows components to be Initialized so that they may listen for events without actually being Activated.

• Pinpoint search results were updated to use display virtualization. This dramatically improved overall performance of Pinpoint search when rendering results.

• Geocortex Web now uses TypeScript 3.7.

• Geocortex Web now uses Material-UI 4.

Bug Fixes

• Added help descriptions for components in Web Designer where they were missing.

• Fixes to 3D hit test to return items in non-reverse order when possible [38948].

• Fix to our Arcade expression evaluator so that Arcade-derived values no longer show as #INVALID [38607].

• Anchor content will now show as hyperlink / e-mail links. Geocortex Web generally disallows HTML formatting in pop-ups for security reasons, but we have relaxed this restriction for anchor content that represents hyperlinks and e-mail links. These will now show as interactive links in Geocortex Web [38473].

• Resolved an issue that caused errors when performing Polygon Identify on certain layer types draped to the ground in 3D [38849].

5.5 - 10 February 2020

New Features

• Charts and Graphs have arrived in Geocortex Web. It is now possible to add charts directly to your application layout and configure them within Geocortex Web Designer. We’ve provided an out-of-the-box experience for configuring bar, line, scatter plot, and pie charts. In the Designer app templates, we’ve pre-wired charts to search and identify actions for you using the charts.display command, but charts can also be connected to things like workflows or even map-based actions.

• Measurement capabilities in both 2D and 3D are now part of Geocortex Web. Rather than building a single ‘measurement tool’ we have created several new granular commands that can be assembled into traditional measurement tools or used in new and unique ways:

  • measurement.capture-geometry: A capture geometry capability that displays real-time measurement data while you are capturing the geometry. This capability includes the ability to toggle between length and area measurement on the fly.
  • measurement.create-graphics: A create measurement graphics capability that takes in a geometry, calculates measurement and creates labeling markup.

• Pinpoint Search has arrived in Designer. Using the new search icon or Ctrl+F in Designer brings up the Pinpoint Search interface. Type almost anything in the search box to rapidly locate it in Designer. This includes obvious things such as trying to find the Toolbar component in your app so you can configure it, but also less obvious things such as where to go in the interface to Download a copy of your app, or the name of a particular attribute in one of your many map services. Pinpoint Search stretches further toward our goal of always being able to find what you are looking for within the Designer interface without needing to consult documentation.

• Interactive map location markers have been added to Geocortex Web. These markers work in 2D and 3D, indicate accuracy, and will show directional field of vision when the underlying data supports it. These are exposed as command and event backed capabilities, allowing programmatic or user-movable map location markers. These location markers allow the 3rd party map integration pattern and enable examples for our upcoming SDK for things like interactive EagleView Pictometry integration.

  • Commands: location-marker.create, location-marker.remove, location-marker.update.
  • Events: location-marker.created, location-marker.removed, location-marker.updated.

• Added the map.add-layers command which allows Workflow to dynamically add layers to the application's map. Future UI will use this command to allow users to upload data.

Behavioral Changes

• After repeated feedback, we have rebuilt the way items are added to lists within Designer. This new interface provides an intermediate dialog allowing you to select the command, workflow, report, or even create a new workflow from a template. Canceling out of this intermediate step provides you an opportunity to stop without creating an item. This new interaction shows up in a number of places; try adding a new menu item to an I Want To... menu to see it in action. Previously, menu items were created automatically with default values which you then had to change; this caused confusion and sometimes left you with an item you didn’t want and had to delete.

• The visual styling of on-map widgets has been updated for the dark theme. Previously, we intentionally made these on-map widgets light-colored, but consensus feedback was that they should also reflect the darker theme.

• The new Pinpoint Search replaces and enhances the former Filter option in the Components panel.

• Provided a visual indicator within Designer when you are looking at configuration that is shared with another component, and additional information about where else that configuration is used. The underlying configuration framework for Geocortex Web allows multiple components to reference the same configuration. While powerful, this can be confusing within Designer when you change your Results List feature actions and realize that you’ve also changed the Results Table feature actions.

• Updated Designer's color picker in places like Branding color selection to allow for more free-form picking of colors in addition to RGB entry and selection from a pre-configured palette of colors.

Technology

• Microsoft is proactively rolling out their new Microsoft Edge browser (based on the Chromium engine). Almost all users will automatically receive the new Microsoft Edge which replaces Microsoft Edge Legacy in the operating system. With the new Microsoft Edge, Microsoft enters the now-standard arena of continuous updating browsers; a huge benefit to end-users running Geocortex software. Geocortex software usage statistics indicate <2% usage of Microsoft Edge Legacy today. Few users or organizations standardized on Microsoft Edge Legacy; this is one of the reasons for Microsoft’s change in strategy. Microsoft Edge Legacy will become increasingly challenging to develop and test against as automated updates roll out across organizations. Therefore, this is the last version that officially supports Microsoft Edge Legacy. Beginning with the next version, the software will be developed and tested against the new Microsoft Edge.

• Geocortex Web has been updated to use the latest ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.14.

• Ongoing refinement of the interfaces and mechanisms for handling internationalization and localization of both Geocortex Web and Designer. Much of this work is being done in conjunction with our international colleagues and partners. While internationalization and localization is possible today, we continue efforts to make it smoother and easier to work with.

• Significant behind-the-scenes work hardening patterns in Geocortex Web in preparation for the upcoming release of the Geocortex Web SDK.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue with the upload image feature released in 5.4. The images attached as resources to the apps now correctly participate in the Development-Testing-Staging-Production deployment functionality. Previously, those image resources existed only in the Development app.

• Resolved an issue that caused the reversal of the drawing order of sublayers in Geocortex Web.

• Updated to the latest Workflow packages to resolve incorrect behavior in several Workflow activities including: Get Centroid, Get Application Data, Set Application Data and Remove Application Data.

5.4 - 4 December 2019

New Features

• Layout editing in Designer is now complete. You can now add and remove layouts to your application as well as add and remove components to your application layouts. Combined with our new Blank template, you can now build a completely custom application with your own layout.

• The Esri portal-backed item picker has been enhanced in Designer to include more sophisticated filters and sorting options, and display additional metadata, such as the item's owner, modification date, and sharing permissions, to make finding the correct item much easier. This appears in places like File Open, Map/Scene Picker, Workflow pickers, and the Designer dashboard.

• Added a new Sharing Permissions feature in Designer for Development, Testing, Staging, and Production apps in the Deploy pipeline to allow permissions for all Esri portal items related to the application to be viewed in one place. This includes the app, web maps and scenes, hosted layers, print and report templates, and workflows. Links from this window take you directly to the Esri portal item. Additionally, there is a tool to set the permissions for all these items at the same time.

• Feature Attribute Editing has arrived in Geocortex Web. A new workflow creation template has been added allowing the editing of feature attributes. Add a feature action to an editable feature layer, Create New Workflow, and select the Feature – Edit Feature Attributes template. The resulting generated workflow is trivially easy to modify giving you full control over the attribute editing for that feature. Remove attributes. Reorder attributes. Make attributes read-only. Add instructional information for specific attributes. Create a tailored editing form for each type of feature with ease.

• Added new hit-test providers for 3D scenes to support accurate identification of 3D FeatureLayer and SceneLayer graphics.

• Added a new configuration point and the underlying functionality for a map component containing both a 2D map and a 3D scene to specify which loads by default when the application starts.

• Updated and extended the image component configuration. In addition to being able to specify the URL of an existing web-hosted image, you can now upload images directly in the configuration interface which will be automatically stored and made available to your application using your Esri portal.

• Added a menu directly to your recent dashboard apps so that you can delete unwanted apps directly from the dashboard.

• When pushing an app to Testing, Staging, or Production, you will now always see a summary of how configured environment values will alter the application, web map, and web scene configuration. In the previous version of Designer, the summary would not appear the first time the app was pushed to a certain stage. Environment values are intended to allow different environments to reference different underlying map and feature services.

Behavioral Changes

• The three previous File Open actions of My Apps, Recent, and Shared with Me have been replaced with a single File Open action displaying an updated Open panel that allows filtering of My Content, Favorites, and Shared with Me, as well as six new Sort by options, allowing sorting by modification date, title, and owner. We also added an explicit Close option for your current app.

• The previous Recent content on the Dashboard and in File Recent have been replaced with Last Modified. This is more consistent with the Esri portal interface and is now available based on your identity regardless of what browser or device you are signed in with (Recent content relied on local storage).

• Relocated the pop-out button for the live preview and emphasized it to make it more obvious that the live preview can be popped out onto a second monitor.

• Updated the Geocortex-managed SaaS sign-in page to more clearly outline options for using a sub-domain connecting a Geocortex-managed SaaS to a customer’s on-premises ArcGIS Enterprise Portal.

• To maximize space for working with the layout tree, the static application services no longer appear in a fixed area at the bottom of the tree. Instead, you toggle between the components tree and the static list of application services.

Technology

• Extended Geocortex Web’s support for the target of a Geocortex Workflow. A workflow can now target virtually any Geocortex Web component by ID and be run there.

• Updated the underlying workflow target component in Geocortex Web to allow for a default workflow to be specified that will be run automatically when that component is visible. This allows for applications to be loaded with a workflow already visible and running in the application interface as an integral part of the application experience.

• The language strings for the Designer interface were added to the language strings for the Geocortex Web interface in our translation platform so that both the administration and end user interfaces for Geocortex Web now fully support internationalization and localization.

• Refactored the layout rendering code as part of introducing full layout editing within Designer, resulting in faster loading and rendering of Geocortex Web applications.

• Updated the technology that renders widgets on the map to provide substantially better responsiveness, flow, and collision avoidance as the application is resized.

Bug Fixes

• Identified and resolved several issues related to running Geocortex Workflow within Geocortex Web.

  • Added support for the disabled state for the date picker form element.

  • Added support for form number input bounds.

• Resolved issues related to correct locale detection.

• Resolved an issue preventing the print form from initializing when model imports were not pre-resolved.

• Corrected field visibility and search logic to ensure we respect field visibility set on the web map pop up definition in various Geocortex Web components such as Feature Details and Results Table.

5.3 - 2 October 2019

New Features

• Multiple layouts can now be viewed, and switched between, using a tab-based interface at the top of Designer. Functionality originally in the Layouts panel is now accessed via the menu in the active layout tab.
• Layout editing has arrived in Designer. The Components panel has been upgraded to a components tree supporting drag-and-drop repositioning of components within the layout. This allows repositioning of both major and minor elements within your application layout, such as moving the results list to a different part of your application. In the next version of Designer you will also be able to add and remove components (and layouts), but for today you can start with an existing template and modify it to fit your needs.
• Layout properties for a component are now shown below the component configuration. This new capability allows for adjustment of layout-specific things such as relative and absolute sizing, horizontal and vertical alignment, which slot of a map a component resides in, whether a component is initially visible, and whether an aspect of the layout is resizable. This includes component-specific layout properties for components with special properties such as the panel component’s minimize, maximize, close, and back buttons.
• Charts make their initial appearance in Geocortex Web with the full support of the web map pop-up chart configuration for feature details. When configured as part of your web map, Geocortex Web will now honor that configuration and display the appropriate chart as part of your feature details view.
• A new Create Workflow command has been provided when configuring new items in various user components. This new command is contextual and provides several relevant templates to choose from based on whether you are working with a feature, a location, or no input context. When selected, a new workflow item is created based on the template and is automatically connected to Geocortex Web, with the option to open it directly in Workflow Designer.
• A new Search New Extent component that displays a "Search This Area" button on the map when the user changes the map extent after performing a search. This visual prompt to "Search This Area" helps the user understand that search results are limited to the current map extent at the time of the search.
• Extended user preferences infrastructure for Geocortex Web that allows preferences to be stored in your Esri portal if the Esri identity is Creator or greater. This provides ubiquitous access to preferences regardless of device or browser based on Esri identity. Currently, this mechanism stores user-defined bookmarks, and user preferences content will grow over time. For users that do not have Creator or greater, local storage is used as a fallback.
• Geocortex Web now supports startup workflows as well as the ability to launch workflows as part of the application URL. The menu for each app deployment stage provides a new Get Links option to generate launch URLs.
• The Get Links dialog provides an embed link for the Production app to assist with embedding Geocortex Web within other applications and web pages.
• A layer context menu has been added to the layer list to allow for layer-based commands. Commands for "Zoom to extent" and "Zoom to visible scale" for the layer context menu are now available.
• It is now possible to tag a Production app in your Esri portal with a Geocortex Web template tag to have that app appear in the list of starting templates in Designer. This provides a simple way to create a corporate-specific template (brand, color, logo, disclaimers) as your own starting point for new apps.
• Added the necessary hooks and commands to Geocortex Web to support embedded app scenarios where you have an application or a web page that wants to "remote control" Geocortex Web. These include a PostMessage listener to listen for external apps calling Geocortex Web commands, and a PostMessage command to allow Geocortex Web to post messages back to the containing app or web page.
• Geocortex Web now exposes the Geocoder configuration in Designer to allow you to more easily reference your own geocoder.

Behavioral Changes

• User testing showed a consistent expectation that what you see in the preview is what you get when you download. When downloading app configuration as a zip file, Designer now gives you the "in memory" app content rather than the last saved app content from the portal. We also exposed the download app configuration action in additional locations such as the File menu.
• User testing showed a consistent expectation that the User component should show up in the live preview. The User component (for signing in and out) had previously been suppressed to prevent accidental sign-out within Designer. We now render a non-interactive version in the live preview so that you can see a more accurate representation of your app in the preview.
• User testing showed confusion over the “revert to defaults” function of a component. Users expected it to “revert to last saved”, so this function has been renamed and updated to conform to this expectation.
• Additional loading animations have been added for longer-running processes. For example, when you select a new web map for your map component, there is now a brief loading animation for the few seconds it takes to retrieve and parse the web map and update the configurable layers so the user isn’t left wondering what is happening.
• Layout actions previously found in the Layouts panel are now accessed via the menu of the active layout tab. What was “Apply a New Layout” is now called “Swap Layout”. What was called “Revert to Initial Layout” is now called “Revert to Last Saved Layout”. A new "Rename Layout" option has also been provided.
• Designer save logic has been enhanced to examine app configuration and remove anything that is orphaned and requires cleanup.
• For applications supporting multiple layouts, the zip file produced by Download App Configuration and consumed by Upload App Configuration now supports multiple layout.xml files.
• The Get Configuration and Export Configuration interfaces have been enhanced to provide additional context about which layout(s) a component is associated with.
• Deployment summaries now contain additional intelligence to accommodate applications with multiple layouts.

Technology

• Geocortex Web now uses Esri JavaScript API 4.12.
• Rebuilt the results table on updated technology to allow for better performance and full WCAG AA keyboard compatibility.
• Enhanced the communication mechanisms between Designer and the embedded live preview of Geocortex Web. This resolves a few reported issues such as having Designer map component configuration listen to and respond when the 2D/3D toggle in the preview is toggled.
• When Geocortex Web is run with the debug=true URL parameter, workflows will no longer be cached to enable rapid iteration and testing of workflows.

Bug Fixes

• Identified and resolved several issues related to running Geocortex Workflow within Geocortex Web.

  • Auto-complete with required fields now shows the error properly when empty.
  • Set Form Element Items now correctly sets items when used with auto-complete.
  • Cancelling a workflow now correctly cancels the currently running command.
  • Default values for numerical input are now correctly submitted.
  • Drop down boxes no longer show the first item as selected unless the “selected index” property is set in Workflow.
  • Issue related to correctly converting results to graphics in Geocortex Web.
  • Get Map activity now returns map information in $map1.map.extension.
• Resolved an issue that could cause duplicate search results to appear in the results list.
• Identified and resolved a number of minor issues that caused warnings and errors to appear in the browser development tools console. While none of these errors affected user-facing function, we continue to clean them up to ensure that when an error occurs in the console, it is something that needs attention.
• Resolved an issue that prevented the image component from being selected in the Designer real-time preview by the component selection tool.
• Resolved an issue that caused the panel to show a blank panel screen when an alternate layout was applied to the app.
• Resolved an issue that prevented sub-menus from being properly destroyed when the parent menu item was destroyed.
• Resolved an issue that was causing the web map pop-up template to be written to the app configuration; this prevented updates to the web map pop-up configuration from being immediately recognized by Geocortex Web.

5.2 - 3 July 2019

New Features

• A new portal item explorer interface has been added to Web Designer to provide a more visual search and browse experience for Esri portal content. For example, when configuring your map component, you are no longer required to paste in a URL or an ID, instead you can search and browse for the item via its thumbnail to select it.

• A new layer presets component is available in Geocortex Web and Web Designer. This component allows you to define a set of named presets, each of which has certain layers visible or not. For example, you can create a Water preset that turns on three water-related layers and turns off all other layers. The end user sees the Water preset and, by pressing it, automatically turns layers on and off to match the preset.

• A new Web Designer configuration interface allows you to configure the base map picker. You can now choose which of Esri’s portal base maps should be included in their app's base map picker and which should not.

• A new Web Designer configuration interface allows you to configure a custom base map, which directly references multiple base and reference layers.

• Added support for on-map display of labels for highlighted results. Highlight and focus labels can be configured in Web Designer as part of Highlighting.

• A new Info side panel item has been added to Web Designer. This panel offers direct access to view and edit the Title and Description of the Esri portal item. This panel also provides the ability to view and launch the URL to the Esri portal item directly.

• The Web Designer interface now supports deep linking directly to a specific app. This allows you to share or bookmark a URL and immediately arrive in the Web Designer interface with that app already open and ready to be updated.

  For example, https://apps.geocortex.com/webviewer/designer/#app=e71af5ef8cd246c9a28f814639ea45

• A new Initialized event has been added to Geocortex Web that allows the app to run a workflow or command the web map or web scene is first loaded. This is configured within Web Designer in the Map settings in a section called Events.

• A new setting and URL parameter that allows an embedded mode for Geocortex Web to be used. When embedded, Geocortex Web will not allow the mouse wheel to zoom in or out of the map without a specific key modifier. This prevents unexpected behavior when scrolling down a web page and suddenly zooming the map.

• Reviewed and updated all error log strings to improve clarity and understanding of errors when they occur. Added a consistent mechanism for the clear display of user-facing errors.

Technology

• Geocortex Web now uses Esri's ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.11.

• Improved cache for Workflows to improve Workflow performance.

• Improved the visual styling of Workflow forms within Geocortex Web.

• Improved Webpack implementation allowing for improved handling of third-party libraries and ensuring even faster load times for Geocortex Web.

• Updated underlying technology for the Results Table component to ensure full WCAG AA compliance and improve performance in areas such as Tabs.

• Geocortex Web continues to improve its support for Geocortex Workflow. Version 5.2 introduces a breaking change: prior to 5.2, Geocortex Web would automatically transform feature data being passed into Workflow into Esri objects. While this made some simple use cases easier, it made many legitimate use cases impossible, as there wasn’t a deterministic way to transform the Esri objects back into Geocortex Web constructs. In 5.2, we have removed this automated conversion of Geocortex Web constructs when passing them into Geocortex Workflow. While this now allows back-and-forth connectivity between Geocortex Web and Geocortex Workflow, it also requires workflows to do some additional transformation work. In the future, there will be Geocortex Workflow activities to make this transformation work even easier. Based on usage analytics, we don’t believe this change will impact any current Geocortex Web app using Geocortex Workflow. However, if this impacts your current app, please reach out to Cam Barnard at the Geocortex Web Community and we’ll provide some extra assistance to help you adjust your workflow.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved issues around token refresh in Web Designer that improve the app creator’s experience when Web Designer is left open for a long period of time between tasks.

• Resolved an issue in Web Designer that prevents two different users from saving an app with the same name.

• Resolved an issue where parent containers were not deactivating when all their children had deactivated, leaving empty open areas that should have been automatically closed.

• Added a language resource file containing error message language strings to our internationalization source so they can be translated.

• Resolved an issue to ensure individual layer references to Esri portal items are accessible even when not located on the same portal.

5.1 - 1 May 2019

New Features

• When adding new menu items, feature actions, and map context items in Web Designer, you will now be presented with a higher-level set of contextually-relevant tools. The raw JSON view, and the list of granular commands are still available, but no longer the default experience.

• When browsing for a workflow, report, or print template from your Esri portal, Web Designer now queries beyond the standard single "page" of results from Esri’s API (50 items), allowing you to find what you are looking for even when you have many Geocortex items in your portal.

• Clicking the product logo in Web Designer now returns to the initial dashboard and safely closes any currently-open app.

• The simple layer list in Geocortex Web is now configurable through Web Designer.

• Geocortex Printing support has been added to Geocortex Web. This includes a new configuration component in Web Designer as well as a new Print tool that can be added to your Geocortex Web app. It is possible to print both 3D scenes and 2D maps. A print preview tool has only been provided for 2D maps at this time.

• You can now type Ctrl+S to save your app in Web Designer.

• Changes to correctly render Geocortex Web apps on mobile devices with appropriately-sized controls.

• Updated the 2D/3D Toggle button in Geocortex Web to clarify which mode is currently active.

• Extensive improvements to user-facing errors when they occur in Geocortex Web, such as when the app is unable to load due to unavailable map services. Improvements were also made to behind-the-scenes logging.

• Improved WCAG AA compliance for keyboard navigation and screen reader support for basemap picker, bookmarks and on-map expander control.

Bug Fixes

• Improved preservation of map/scene scale when toggling between 2D and 3D.

• Several small fixes to the on-premises installer.

• Allowed HTTP credentials to be sent to on-premises Portal for ArcGIS (supports certain authentication flows).

• Corrected behavior when applying a new layout in Web Designer with the preview popped out.

• Resolved an issue preventing the proper passing of a security token from Web Designer to the Geocortex Web preview when using federated secured services.

• Ongoing fixes and improvements to Geocortex Workflow behavior within Geocortex Web.

5.0 - 28 February 2019

What is Geocortex Web?

The first release of Geocortex Web is focused on providing beautiful, fast, flexible applications combining the 3D and 2D capabilities of Esri’s latest ArcGIS API for JavaScript. Developed with a SaaS-first approach, Geocortex Web is available both as SaaS and on-premises.

Since Esri first announced a new ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.0 in mid-2016, we have been planning and building the next-generation JavaScript viewer for our Geocortex customers.

In the future (2-3 years), Geocortex Web and the Esri ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.x will have matured to match and exceed the current Geocortex Viewer for HTML5. Until then, Geocortex Web focuses on the unique capabilities associated with the Esri ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.x that Geocortex customers may need today:

• Side-by-side or toggling 2D map and 3D scene visualization.

• Performance optimization made possible by the new API technologies.

• Improved control over color, and visual branding.

• Clean, fresh visualization of results on the map, and in lists, tables, and detail views.

• Familiar I Want To menus, toolbars, and contextual menu options.

• WCAG AA accessibility compliance for public-facing applications.

• Extensibility using 5-series Workflow and Reporting capabilities.

• A new configuration model separating functional app behavior from layout appearance that allows multiple components of the same type.

What is Geocortex Web Designer?

In addition to an all-new viewer there is an all-new Geocortex Web Designer experience for designing and configuring applications. This new experience provides:

• Quick verification of changes with a fully-interactive, live preview of your application.

• Improved mechanisms for finding configuration settings through both a contextual filter and a visual component selector.

• More space to work with larger areas for entering configuration and the ability to pop out the application preview onto a second monitor.

• Application management with dedicated functionality for managing development, test, staging, and production versions of your application and its associated web maps and web scenes.

Initial Capabilities

Initial components and capabilities include:

• Map/Scene navigation controls

• Base map gallery

• Geolocation

• Bookmarks

• Scalebar

• Coordinates of mouse on map

• Map context menu

• Legend

• Simple Layer list

• I Want To menu

• Toolbar

• Geocortex Workflow support

• Extent-specific search

• Identify

• Selections and highlighting

• Results List

• Results Table

• Feature Details

Known Issues

For the most part the Geocortex Web is working as designed and the initial features are well-tested and ready. That said, there are a few known issues that you should be aware of:

• Layout editing. The underlying configuration model supports very flexible layouts, and we’ve begun working on a layout editing interface within Web Designer. Until then, modifying the layout means editing XML. In the Deployment area, you can access the configuration files from the menu beside Development and clicking Download as Zip File. When you are done editing and have re-zipped them, select Upload Zip File from the same location.

• Mobile handheld devices. While supported, there is currently a scaling bug that renders components far too small on handheld devices. We are working on it, and you should see dramatic improvement in future versions.

• Internet Explorer is not a supported browser. The Esri ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.x makes extensive use of WebGL which leaves Internet Explorer behind. As Esri begins to release new viewers based upon the Esri ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.x, you can also expect they will not support Internet Explorer.

• Microsoft Edge. A supported browser, there is a current bug in the Esri stack that prevents authentication with Esri identities on Microsoft Edge. We anticipate this bug will be resolved by Esri soon.