Drawing order not maintained in web layer

AvaFarouche

Greetings,

I created layer in ArcGIS Pro that enables drawing order, but when I shared it to web layer and add to an online map, the drawing order is not maintained.

It's not displaying because it's considered advanced renderer settings because I used Unique Values for symbology, but then grouped categories. Otherwise the symbology is simple, just different colored dots for the different categories. The thing is, I did this for essentially the same dataset for a different geographic area several days ago and it worked just fine. I guess I should count my blessings that it worked once.

What's the workaround? Resort to creating different web layers for all of the Unique Value categories? That means I'd be creating 7 web layers instead of 1 and adding all of them to an already busy map.

Any ideas appreciated! Thanks!

CalvinHarmin

When you say shared as a map layer, are you saying you created a map service, feature service, or did you create a hosted feature layer copy on Portal or AGOL?

If publishing a map service or feature service from ArcGIS Pro, you could potentially use the Symbology pane > Symbol Layer Drawing tab and set the draw order here, and I believe the map viewer should honor these draw settings. If publishing a feature service, it might warn you that not all advanced symbology options may function, but I think you can just ignore it in this case. Symbol layer drawing also lets you join/merge (or not) the sub-layers within each symbology so things blend together. But you can disable that function by changing Join to No Join. Feature Services sometimes simplify those multi-level symbologies so I think that's what it's warning you about.

Anway, by default, I think the ArcGIS* behavior is that draw order is done by ObjectID (newest drawn on top) unless these other strategies for draw order are configured. But I could be mistaken.