AI, ArcGIS Online Courses
Creating Custom Experience Builder Apps and Widgets Using AI
An Advanced Course using ESRI’s AI Skills
8 GISP Credit Hours
This course is intended for students who have some knowledge of ArcGIS Online and have already taken Introduction to Experience Builder and Intermediate Experience Builder, or who have equivalent experience building applications in Experience Builder. No JavaScript, React, or other scripting skills are necessary.
This course covers ArcGIS Online only; it does not cover ArcGIS Enterprise.
Hardware and ArcGIS Online Access
Students need to have their own computer hardware and the following ArcGIS Online access:
- An ArcGIS Online Creator user type or higher (Creator, Professional, or Professional Plus).
- A role of User or higher assigned to that user type, or a custom role that includes the privilege to create, update, and delete content. A Creator user type assigned the Viewer or Data Editor role cannot create content and will not be able to complete the course exercises.
- Their organization’s ArcGIS Online URL and a valid login, available at the start of class.
Computer Requirements
- At least 8 GB of memory
- A 64-bit version of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari with WebGL enabled
- A text editor for opening code files. Notepad, which comes built into Windows, works for this course. Visual Studio Code (VS Code), a free code editor from Microsoft, is recommended by Esri for widget development but is not required.
- Permission to start and restart Developer Edition from a command prompt during class, and to copy files into Developer Edition’s widgets folder
This course uses ArcGIS Experience Builder Developer Edition, running on your own computer, and a cloud-based AI agent. All AI work is done in the cloud through a web browser; no AI software is installed on your computer. Custom widgets are tested in Experience Builder within Developer Edition. Nothing built in class is published or shared with a live audience.
To Be Completed Before Class
Setup instructions for students, ArcGIS Online administrators, and IT staff are provided upon registration.
- ArcGIS Experience Builder Developer Edition 1.21 installed on your computer
- An ArcGIS Online Client ID for Developer Edition
- Esri’s Experience Builder widget skill downloaded from GitHub
- An account with an approved cloud AI agent
All course data is provided in a publicly accessible web map. You do not need to upload or publish any data.
- Module 1: Developer Edition Environment Check
- Module 2: How Experience Builder Developer Edition Is Organized
- Module 3: Anatomy of a Custom Widget
- Module 4: AI Agents and Esri’s Experience Builder Widget Skill
- Module 5: Building Custom Widgets with a Cloud AI Agent
- Module 6: Adding and Configuring Custom Widgets in Experience Builder
- Module 7: Troubleshooting and Refining AI-Generated Widgets
This full-day course takes you beyond Experience Builder’s built-in widgets and into Developer Edition, where you create your own custom widgets with the help of AI. Our introductory and intermediate courses taught you to build applications with out-of-the-box widgets. This course teaches you to build custom widgets designed around the specific tasks and projects you work on. You will learn how Developer Edition is organized, how a custom widget is put together, and how to use Esri’s Experience Builder widget skill with a cloud AI agent. The AI writes the widget code; you learn how to direct it, understand what it produces, and put it to work in Experience Builder.
Course exercises give you hands-on experience describing a widget to an AI agent, adding the generated files to Developer Edition, and then testing, troubleshooting, and modifying your widgets in Experience Builder. All testing is done in Developer Edition on your own computer; nothing built in class is published to a live audience. We explain the steps for deploying custom widgets and the applications that use them, so you can complete them after class with your own custom applications. You will also learn what installed AI coding tools are and how they differ from the cloud-only approach used in class.
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This course made it less intimidating to switch from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro. So glad I attended.
Student, Idaho State Tax Commission
Knowledgeable instructor, well paced class, applicable information covered, hands-on style.
Brandon Clark, Alabama Power
I strongly and highly recommend it
Matt Gubitosa, U.S. EPA
I really enjoyed the Python/ArcGIS course. For me the right balance between detail and overview. Good work!
Pal Herman Sund
I thought the course was very organized. The style of presentation and the lesson format worked well together. It made the information easy to understand. -
Kyle Lockhart, Escambia County, FL
Class was well organized, well paced and I learned a lot.
Aleeta Zeller, Chattanooga RPA
Definitely got me "over the hump" of being able to grasp Python.
Joseph Monti
These courses are great. I am so pressed for time this is the only way I can acquire extra skills these days. Thank you Eric for all your hard work!
Chris Hickin, NYC Fire Dept.
I have attended a number of instructor-led training courses offered by ESRI, which are great in their own right, but the Mastering the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API course gets much more in-depth than they often do. I really liked the recommended reading, they helped expand the terms being covered in lecture to concrete examples that could be related back to my work more directly instead of just having the lecture and exercises alone. I learned a lot andwill recommend this and other GeoSpatial Training courses to the GIS'ers I know. Thanks for putting this course together and offering it.
Jason Warzinik, Boone County, MO
Really good course material. Very relevant subject matter.
Michael Philp, City of Springville, UT
Very informative and knowledgeable course. It help determine which direction I should take my further GIS and web programming skills.
Chris Pollard, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission