Add a Virtual Feature Layer to New Item in AGOL

rob_hewy

Have the concept of a virtual feature layer similar to a view in SQL but Arcade based. Take the concept of data expressions in Dashboards but make it available across the platform via a virtual feature layer.  

The key would be combining possible multiple feature layers into one source.

The current create layer view is good but seems to be more focused on filtering a single feature layer's rows and columns versus reshaping/engineering the data.

The use case would be Realtime/micro-ETL versus macro-ETL.

I would put the following products into macro:

• Model builder
• Data pipelines
• FME form

I would put these concepts into micro:

• Dashboards data expressions
• The new, hopefully, virtual feature layer

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DanMakridakis

I've literally been planning to make this idea for a year and finally just came on to do it and you beat me by 6 hours.

Data Expressions are super powerful in dashboards. In Pro I create SQL Query Layers from SDE all the time to combine multiple features and related records to dynamically display them.

We need a way to create data expressions at the content item level to be used in map viewer as dynamic layers with geometry.

Join Views get you part of the way there, but aren't powerful enough to do more complex data manipulation and reasoning for what the output produces.

The functionality is clearly there with data expressions and pop-up arcade expressions.