Legend

jaykapalczynski

I am trying to create a legend and looking for examples.  I found this on ESRI web site but its really clunky looking, with huge icons and no tree nesting...

Legend | ArcGIS API for JavaScript 3.23 

Issues:  

No Tree Nesting by category

Icons and images are huge

Very cartoon looking.

This biggest:  Its creating the legend automatically and adding every layer to the legend.

I am looking for something a bit more professional looking that maybe has:

Tree Nesting by category

The ability to add the layers I want and not all of them

Ability to control size of text and maybe icon size.

Anyone know of any examples that meet my needs?

Anonymous User

Hi Jay, there are very likely other methodologies to hide a layer from the legend, however the example I have below has worked for me.

For example, in one of our applications I hide our aerials when the legend loads into the map since it acts as one of our basemaps.

The function loads, as you mentioned, when the layers-add-result event occurs on the initial map load (so a one time on load event), like so:

myMap.on("load", function () { <BR /> &nbsp;&nbsp;myMap.on("layers-add-result", loadLegend); <BR /> }

The loadLegend function uses defined id names, and in the case below fsa2015, which can be defined for any layer type (e.g. FeatureLayer, ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer, ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer, WebTiledLayer, etc.) like so:

var fsa2015 = esri.layers.ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer("url", {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;id: "fsa2015"<BR /> });

The loadLegend function is below, using the defined id name. Note: Dependencies, which you also mentioned, include: dojo/_base/array (arrayUtils) and esri.diji.Legend:

function loadLegend (evt) { <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;var layerInfo = arrayUtils.myMap(evt.layers, function (layer, index) { <BR /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if (layer.layer.id === "fsa2015") { return { }; } //Hides FSA aerial layer&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;else { return { layer: layer.layer, title: layer.layer.name }; } //Else return as-is <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;}); <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;myLegend= esri.dijit.Legend({ <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;map: myMap, <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;layerInfos: layerInfo <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;}, "myLegendDiv"); <BR /> &nbsp;&nbsp;myLegend.startup(); <BR /> &nbsp;&nbsp;myLegend.refresh(); <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;} <BR /> } <BR />

In Esri's documentation, layer is required in the layerInfos object, so without it being specified the layer won't load in the legend when active in the map.

Hope that helps!

More information on the Legend's LayerInfos from Esri's documentation.