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New field not visible by default

KatyAppleton1

When adding a new field to a table in ArcGIS Online, the new field does not appear in view by default - you have to go to Show/Hide Fields and turn it on. I think this may have changed recently as I am sure it used to default to visible. Generally I am adding a field because I want to do something with it, so I need to see it!

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KellyGerrow

Hi Katy,

Are you adding the filed to a hosted feature layer view or a primary hosted feature layer?

Has a Pop-Up configuration been saved to the layer?

A Usability Bug has been logged in regards to this issue. Feel free to contact Tech support to be added for tracking: BUG-000110205: Fields added to data in ArcGIS Online are hidden by ..

-Kelly

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GISOfficer

An additional question, how does adding a field then propagating to a view work for related tables? I have republished a service with schema changes and am looking to push these to the view without remaking it. Define Fields in the Visualisation tab does not show the related table.

JustinConnerWR

I don't think it's wise to make newly-added fields visible automatically in pop-ups. That would be a huge mistake as new, unpopulated and/or internal-only fields would automatically be visible in pop-ups for public layers which is not desired behavior for many organizations. It seems most users of this forum were asking specifically to be able to see the field in the Data view, not in the pop-up!

I had found that new fields weren't actually showing up in the popup configuration in a timely manner to even allow me to check the box to make them visible. (This is similar to Alex's concern above, although he was missing the check-box in the view and I was missing the check-box in the pop-up within the hosted feature layer itself.) I adjusted my cache settings back to "never" and waited patiently (after having impatiently changed alias names & such hoping that would trigger it to work), and eventually the field was available to add to the pop-up window. There may be some other quirks of field names that are causing issues with displaying the fields.

MikeMinamiP1

Enhancement to make newly added fields visible immediately

Pending some ongoing testing, at the next release, newly added fields will immediately be visible in the table. If for some reason our testing fails and we can't release this feature, I'll post here. But, it seems like it should go through. New fields will also appear in popups.

How do you make your field 'permanently' visible today before the next release?

Currently, if your field is not showing up in the table, you have to make it visible. You do this through the popup configuration. So, on the Visualize tab, configure the popup. Choose the Configure Attributes option to display this dialog box. You will need to check the option to 'Display' the field. Save, and you'll now see your field.

In the current release, why are newly added fields sometime visible and sometimes not?

It depends if there is a popup defined on the layer already. If there is, and you've customized in in any way, a newly added field will not be visible. At the time, we were being conservative and didn't want to mess up any custom popup you may have configured by adding a new field to it. (With the enhancement, you'll now get it.) There really isn't any relationship to the age of the layer, but I suppose the older a layer is, the more likely that you may have configured the popup or it got configured automatically in some way. Layers published from Desktop might already have a popup defined too.

Why does it work this way now?

In the beginning of AGOL, there were only popups, no tables. Then tables were added to the map viewer and it made sense that the fields you see in the table would match what you see in the popup, so the table just displayed the visible fields defined in the popup. I don't think you could even add new fields at this point. Then, the Data tab was introduced, but it still inherited the visible fields defined in the popup.

Hope this helps explain things,

Mike

JustinConnerWR

I've had more than one issue like this (where hosted feature classes published awhile ago are exhibiting behaviors that new feature classes aren't). Unfortunately, tech support will not troubleshoot a problem unless it is reproducible. Since ESRI tech support isn't able to reproduce creating a hosted feature class with an earlier version of AGOL for testing, it's not possible to get help beyond "please recreate the feature class", which (as Katherine states) is inconvenient if field staff are actually making use of the layer...

KClarkDev_GIS

Sorry for such a delayed response, Michael. I've been out of the office for a while.

At least based on my experience, it seems that yes, any older layer would exhibit this behavior. However, this is definitely one of our oldest features layers that we work with, so I don't really have another layer that I can verify this with.

If I did republish the layer, then yes all web maps and apps that use the layer would have to be reconfigured. In my case, I think I'm just going to keep the old layer in there and work around it, since so many people use this layer in Collector for field use. Probably not worth the hassle of changing everything.

Either way, I'm glad I found out what was causing the behavior!

mvolz47

So does this mean that older feature layers published before the bug was fixed will exhibit this missing new field behavior? If so, does this mean that web maps and web apps using the old feature layer will need to be reconfigured as the old feature layer would need to be deleted and replaced by a new feature layer to work properly?

KClarkDev_GIS

Kelly,

The point feature layer that I was having trouble with is one that was published back in May, 2017. Just now I tested adding a new field with the same workflow to a point feature layer that I just published yesterday, and it worked fine! The new field remains visible in the data table without having to go to the "show/hide columns" option.

Thank you so much for your reply! It seems that the issue was specific to this particular layer, since it was published before the bug was fixed.

Cheers,

Katherine

KellyGerrow

Hi Katherine,

I'd suggest getting in touch with support so they can look into this issue in more detail. There was a bug but this has been resolved so you shouldn't be running into the issue. What are the specific steps that you are following to publish the feature layer and add the field.

Thanks,

Kelly

KClarkDev_GIS

So, I am still having this issue. In the data view tab of the feature layer item page, I click the triple bar "options" menu and add a field. However, whenever I view the table, I have to use the "show/hide columns" option to make these new fields viewable (this applies for any field that wasn't published with the original feature layer). I have to do this step every time that I view the data table.

Can you elaborate on what you did to resolve this? Or are you still having this issue? It seems that the bug that Esri logged is exactly the issue that I am still having, even though they have the bug marked as "resolved".

I am using ArcGIS Online 6.3

Thanks for any insight you can provide on this!

KatyAppleton1

OK, I have come back to this after a break - sorry for the silence. Having re-tested, I have found that I have two datasets produced from (different) Map Notes, one that works fine (all attributes visible in the table by default, new field also visible immediately) and one that doesn't (attributes exist but aren't shown by default, new field must also be enabled manually). I do not know what the differences are, they were created at different times and I do not have a detailed record of the workflow.

However, the new workflow in the blog looks like it will greatly simplify things and so I will update my classes to use that. Given that, I think it would be an inefficient use of time to try and troubleshoot the other anomalous dataset (unless you are super keen!)

Thanks for your perseverance, Kelly.

Katy

KellyGerrow

Hi Katy,

This definitely helps clarify but I still can't reproduce the issue. I must be missing a small step. When you open the Attribute table, are you opening it in Map Viewer? Are you adding the new field to the point layer?

Do you add data to your feature layer prior to publishing? I see many fields when I add my field, so maybe this is where my workflow is different.

http://arcg.is/08SH0q

Have you tried to build a layer workflow for publishing empty hosted layers? We added this in the last release which removes a step from the publishing map notes workflow.

The process is outlined in this blog:

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-online/announcements/creating-an-empty-feature-layer-for-data-collectio…

-Kelly

KatyAppleton1

We must be misunderstanding each other somewhere! My steps:

New map
Add a hosted feature layer - one that I created myself within ArcGIS Online by saving Map Notes and publishing the layer
Open Attribute Table - I can just see the ObjectID field (ideally I would like to see all fields at this point, but that's a separate issue I guess)
Add Field (I added a String length 256 but can replicate this with any other type)
I get a popup that ArcGIS is saving the layer
After the popup, my attribute table view is unchanged. I can still only see the ObjectID. I would like to have the table show my new field without needing to go into Show/Hide Columns

Does that clarify? Thanks!

Katy

KellyGerrow

Yes this issue is resolved. I just tested this through the data tab and the table in map viewer and new fields appear immediately in the table after adding the new field.

It sounds like you are still running into the issue.

Can you share the steps that you are currently following that displays the error?

What is the field type that you are adding? string, interval, double, date?

How did you publish the feature layer? file? ArcGIS Pro? empty feature service?

Thanks,

Kelly

KatyAppleton1

I'm using whatever is delivered when I sign in at arcgis.com, but yes, it is 6.2.

mvolz47

Are you using the current version of AGOL which I believe is 6.2?

I used the following syntax to get this information:

http://%youragolorg%.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest?f=json

I gathered this information from:

Does ArcGIS Online have version number? - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange

KatyAppleton1

Yes, looks like it is. ESRI, what happened to the "next release" fix? Kelly Gerrow‌

Don_Barker

This is still the default. Incredibly.

KatyAppleton1

Thank you Kelly. I am sorry I did not get to reply to this before the festive break. I was adding the field to a primary hosted feature layer with no pop-up configuration. But it sounds like it's all on track now - thanks again.

KellyGerrow

This is scheduled to be fixed in the next release of ArcGIS Online.

KellyGerrow

Hi Katy,

Are you adding the filed to a hosted feature layer view or a primary hosted feature layer?

Has a Pop-Up configuration been saved to the layer?

A Usability Bug has been logged in regards to this issue. Feel free to contact Tech support to be added for tracking: BUG-000110205: Fields added to data in ArcGIS Online are hidden by ..

-Kelly

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