Trying to modify - Public Information Map gallery sample

BobPuterski

I am trying to modify the gallery sample - Public Information Map - 2.0. I want to include a dynamic map layer in the layers.js that will always be the active layer for map click events to display attributes in an info window but not appear in the Layers Menu for turning its display on and off. (It will be totally transparent and I do not want the user to even know the layer exists.) I have figured out the transparency and active for click event part but not how to remove it from the drop down Layers Menu. I would appreciate any help to this struggling beginner.

BobPuterski

Thanks Steve and Dan,

Problem solved. As Dan suggested all I had to do was place a conditional around the inner part of adding the html lines to construct the menu items. Steve's solution is more logical and will be used in my next revision when I have more time to fully customize the app. I just didn't have time to figure out adding a layer without going thru the black box userconfig. and whether something else would break if it wasn't in the layers or basemap list.

Dan's solution involved:

/*------------------------------------*/
// CREATE LAYER ITEMS
/*------------------------------------*/
function configureLayers(){
. . .
in the bottom section  insert a conditional such as
   if (userConfig.layerItems.uniqueID !== 'your_map_service') {

before the

     // COMPOSE HTML LIST STRING
     html += '<li id="' + userConfig.layerItems.uniqueID . . .

and before the append

     if (userConfig.layerItems.uniqueID !== your_map_service') {
     html += '</li>';
     // APPEND HTML
     $('#layersList').append(html);
     }