Report Builder Blog Posts

Adding a map to your reports can provide some much needed context for your readers, and also display your data in an informative and engaging style. While a lot of the Report Builder widgets will likely be intuitive for the avid ArcGIS Online user, there are some widgets you may not be familiar with. The […]

A major new version of InstantAtlas Report Builder (version 2.0) is now available. Report Builder 2.0 is a complete redesign and rebuild of the application, keeping all that was good from version 1 whilst making the reports faster to load, easier to create, more responsive to different devices and more accessible to a range of […]

The purpose of this post is to provide the necessary information for embedding Report Builder for ArcGIS reports into a website. If the website you are embedding into is a WordPress website supplied by Esri UK, please ensure that the page template is not set to InstantAtlas – Sub-Level – Content (Auto-Embed Reports). As the […]

Reports built with InstantAtlas Report Builder have a built in index page, whether you choose to use “live links” or to publish the reports to HTML. However, this is not the only way to link to reports. Every feature in your report has a unique URL – this post will walk you through how to […]

This article will try and show you some of the different ways you can use InstantAtlas Report Builder and the bar chart widget to present population data. We’re going to produce a few different charts, but we’re aiming for something like this:

Overview The 2.6.10 Spring Update of Report Builder for ArcGIS mainly focusses on a few improvements to the Web Map widget while also addressing a small number of issues related to infographics and some further enhancements and bug fixes. New functionality for Web Map widgets A new setting called Layer attribute filters in the Clipping […]

Overview The main goal of this update is to align the user interface/experience of Report Builder more closely with other core apps within the ArcGIS system. These changes extend throughout the application, from the landing page right through to the most buried options. These changes have obvious benefits for users that are already familiar with […]

Overview Report Builder version 2.5.0 includes enhancements such as an expanded and improved way of applying cell colour rules for table widgets, the ability to create bar charts with dates as series and a choice between light or dark themes for the interface. We have also used this release to fix a number of bugs. […]

Overview In version 2.4.0 of Report Builder we have continued to improve the behaviour of the chart widgets, following an upgrade of the charting library in the 2.3.0 update. We have also made changes to how Report Builder works with ArcGIS Enterprise as the data, storage and authentication platform instead of ArcGIS Online. New features […]

Overview The main goal of Report Builder version 2.3.0 is the upgrade to the charting library (used for the chart widgets) to the latest available version. This is largely a behind-the-scenes change, although you may notice some very subtle differences to the look and feel of the charts. Besides improving performance and adding functionality, this […]

Overview Report Builder version 2.2.0 fixes a number of bugs and also introduces functionality (beta) to import or link to other reports. Bug fixes Case sensitivity issue with feature ID field Stacked bar chart with look-down comparison areas shhowing incorrect colours Web map widget – visible layers not acting on raster layers Text widget stripping […]

Overview Report Builder version 2.1.0 introduces a new widget, the Toggle Content widget. This has been added in order to enable content sections in a report to be expanded/collapsed by the end user. Prior to the addition of this widget, the same “accordion” effect had to be achieved using styling in the website that the […]

Overview Report Builder version 2.0.2 addresses a number of bugs, several of which will  ensure a smoother migration from version 1 to version 2 reports. We have also added some of the functionality of Report Builder 1 that had not yet been implemented in version 2, as well as performance, accessibility and error handling improvements. […]

A major new version of InstantAtlas Report Builder (version 2.0) is now available. Report Builder 2.0 is a complete redesign and rebuild of the application, keeping all that was good from version 1 whilst making the reports faster to load, easier to create, more responsive to different devices and more accessible to a range of […]