{"id":67591,"date":"2015-05-11T10:28:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/configuring-the-basic-viewer-template\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:05:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:05:23","slug":"configuring-the-basic-viewer-template","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-collaboration\/configuring-the-basic-viewer-template","title":{"rendered":"Configuring the Basic Viewer template"},"author":4801,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37511],"tags":[26331,24421],"industry":[],"product":[36821,36551],"class_list":["post-67591","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharing-collaboration","tag-basic-viewer","tag-templates","product-configurable-apps","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Basic Viewer template, available in the ArcGIS Online template gallery, is a simple way to create an application that offers the foll...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The Basic Viewer template, available in the ArcGIS Online template gallery, is a simple way to create an application that offers the following functionality:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search for locations and features<\/li>\n<li>Edit features and attributes<\/li>\n<li>Measure distance and area<\/li>\n<li>Easily navigate to pre-defined locations<\/li>\n<li>And much more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Explore the gallery of configured Basic Viewer apps to see a few different options for creating an app based on this template then read-through the blog post to learn how to configure the template to suit your needs.<\/p>\n<p>[iframe\u00a0src=&#8221;http:\/\/webapps.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/webmap\/embedGallery.html?displayapps=true&amp;displayinline=true&amp;group=8a069d88919e45c98fa09b0dea94c05e&#8221; width=&#8221;750&#8243; height=&#8221;238&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>To get started with the template select the Create &gt; Template option from the ArcGIS Online My Content page and select the Basic Viewer template from the gallery.\u00a0 After defining a title, description and tags select a web map to use in the application.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the some functionality in the app will only be available for certain web maps. For example to enable the edit capability the web map will need to contain one or more editable feature layers.<\/p>\n<h2>Configure Template<\/h2>\n<p>After selecting a map use the configuration panel tools to modify the app to suit your needs. You can choose a custom title and description, enable\/disable tools and pick a custom color scheme. \u00a0Let\u2019s look at some of the configuration options in more detail.<\/p>\n<h3>App details<\/h3>\n<p>By default the application displays the Web map title and no logo. You can use the title and logo options to specify a custom title and add a logo to the left of the title in the header area.<\/p>\n<p>Edit the <strong>Details<\/strong> section to provide detailed information about your app or perhaps instructions on how to perform a task using the app tools. \u00a0The available formatting tools let you modify the text and background color, define bullets, justify text, create links and add images.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dialog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dialog-300x267.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to make this the active panel that displays when the app first loads scroll down to the <strong>Tools<\/strong> section and set <strong>Details<\/strong> as the active tool.<\/p>\n<h3>Color Scheme<\/h3>\n<p>The configuration panel&#8217;s color pickers let you define a color scheme for the application. Use this to customize the app to match your organizations color scheme or to fit in with the colors used by an existing site. You can change the background color for the title bar and popup windows, set the text color and select either white or black icons.<\/p>\n<p>Select the new colors from a gallery of colors or specify the hex value for the color of your choice. If you aren&#8217;t familiar with hex colors use a site like<a title=\"color-hex\" href=\"http:\/\/www.color-hex.com\/\"> color-hex<\/a> to find the hex value for a color by entering the color name, <a title=\"RGB\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RGB_color_model\">RGB<\/a> or <a title=\"HSV\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HSL_and_HSV\">HSV<\/a> value.<\/p>\n<h3>Custom Tools and Settings<\/h3>\n<p>The <strong>Tools\u00a0<\/strong>section lets you specify which functionality your app will contain. In general it\u2019s a good idea to present a simple focused app to your end users. 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