{"id":74641,"date":"2016-12-16T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T10:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/whats-new-in-web-appbuilder-for-arcgis-december-2016\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:11:15","slug":"whats-new-in-web-appbuilder-for-arcgis-december-2016","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/announcements\/announcements\/whats-new-in-web-appbuilder-for-arcgis-december-2016","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New in Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (December 2016)"},"author":5481,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37101,22941],"tags":[29401,23571,32461],"industry":[],"product":[36591,36551,36631],"class_list":["post-74641","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-mapping","tag-web","tag-whats-new","tag-whats-new-december-2016","product-apps","product-arcgis-online","product-web-appbuilder"],"acf":{"short_description":"In this update, we\u2019ve continued the major theme for Web AppBuilder in 2016 Q4: enhancing\u00a0widgets. 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