topic Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

"No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

GregoryDillon — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:32:13 GMT

I'm having an issue with some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers displaying "No Legend" in the legend when there should be one.

Here is the code for one of the layers I'm having a problem with:

WaterLayer = new esri.layers.ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer("http://pri-img-rep-web.abcwua.org/ArcGIS/rest/services/WUAGISWater/MapServer");
    WaterLayer.id = "Water";
    map.addLayer(WaterLayer);
    AddLayerToRegistryPendList(WaterLayer);

Here is the code for displaying the legend for this layer:

var LegDiv = dojo.byId("LegendDiv");

      LegendControl = new esri.dijit.Legend({
        map: map,
        layerInfos: [{
            layer: map.getLayer("Water"),
            title: " "
        }]
    }, LegDiv);

    LegendControl.startup();

Attached is a image of the raw dump of the legend in the service.

Help!   What is wrong??? Is there a setting I need to adjust in the service.

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

derekswingley1 — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:03:04 GMT

Which version of server are you using (including service pack)? Generating legends via your own AGS instance requires 10.0 sp1 or later.

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

GregoryDillon — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:27:06 GMT

Which version of server are you using (including service pack)? Generating legends via your own AGS instance requires 10.0 sp1 or later.

I'm using the following reference to the JS 2.8 API:

script type="text/javascript" src="http://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/arcgis/?v=2.8compact">
</script>
<link href="http://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/arcgis/2.8/js/dojo/dijit/themes/claro/claro.css"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

This is the PatchFinder info for the server where the web services are hosted (I also just tried hosting the site on the server and have the same issue!😞

ArcGIS Desktop 10
ArcGIS Desktop 10 Service Pack 1

ArcGIS Engine Runtime 10
ArcGIS Engine Runtime 10 Service Pack 1

ArcGIS Server 10 - GIS Services
ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework 10 - GIS Services Service Pack 1

ArcGIS Server 10 - Web Applications
ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework 10 - Web Applications Service Pack 1

ArcGIS Server 10 - Web ADF Runtime

ArcObjects SDK for the Microsoft .NET Framework 10.0
ArcObjects SDK for the Microsoft .NET Framework 10 Service Pack 1

ArcGIS VBA Resources 10.0

Data Interoperability Extension 10.0
Data Interoperability Extension Service Pack 1

This is the PatchFinder info for where the application is running (my dev box):

ArcGIS Desktop 10
ArcGIS Desktop 10 Service Pack 1
ArcGIS Desktop 10 Service Pack 2

ArcGIS Engine Runtime 10
ArcGIS Engine Runtime 10 Service Pack 1
ArcGIS Engine Runtime 10 Service Pack 2

ArcGIS Server 10 - GIS Services
ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework 10 - GIS Services Service Pack 1
ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework 10 - GIS Services Service Pack 2

ArcGIS Server 10 - Web Applications
ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework 10 - Web Applications Service Pack 1
ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework 10 - Web Applications Service Pack 2

ArcGIS Server 10 - Web ADF Runtime
ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework 10 - Web ADF Runtime Service Pack 2

ArcObjects SDK for the Microsoft .NET Framework 10.0
ArcObjects SDK for the Microsoft .NET Framework 10 Service Pack 1

ArcGIS VBA Resources 10.0

Data Interoperability Extension 10.0
Data Interoperability Extension Service Pack 1
Data Interoperability Extension Service Pack 2

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

derekswingley1 — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:45:15 GMT

Do you see a request going to your legend endpoint when your app loads? I've attached a screen shot of what this looks like in chrome dev tools' network tab. Also, here's a working sample of using a dynamic layer and a legend: http://jsfiddle.net/kq6bx/

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

GregoryDillon — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:34:07 GMT

Do you see a request going to your legend endpoint when your app loads? I've attached a screen shot of what this looks like in chrome dev tools' network tab. Also, here's a working sample of using a dynamic layer and a legend: http://jsfiddle.net/kq6bx/

Attached are my Chrome Dev Tool outputs for a layer that is working (GoodLegend.png) and one that is bad (BadLegend.png).

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

derekswingley1 — Wed, 23 May 2012 22:29:29 GMT

In BadLegend.png, is your map at a scale where your map service should be visible?

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

GregoryDillon — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:01:15 GMT

In BadLegend.png, is your map at a scale where your map service should be visible?

Okay looks like the legend only displays what is visible. Can't believe I didn't think of that. How do I tell it to show everything visible or not?

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

derekswingley1 — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:05:29 GMT

By default, the legend only displays info for visible layers. You can override this via a boolean constructor parameter called respectCurrentMapScale.

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

GregoryDillon — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:49:54 GMT

By default, the legend only displays info for visible layers. You can override this via a boolean constructor parameter called respectCurrentMapScale.

Yes I tried that, it seems to fix the issue with visibility at scales, but still only displays what is visible. I want user to the select a category (which is the same name as the "id" on the dynamic layer) and see the legend for all the layers in the dynamic layer - visible or not. How do I see a legend for everything the same way as "http:/.../Legend".

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

derekswingley1 — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:09:36 GMT

Try calling refresh() and pass in layerInfos for the layers you want to show.

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

GregoryDillon — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:25:10 GMT

Try calling refresh() and pass in layerInfos for the layers you want to show.

Yes this is what I'm already doing see code below - What else can I do?:

function LoadLegend() {
    var ddl = document.getElementById(ddlLegendLayerCat);
    ddlLegendLayerCatSelectIndex = ddl.selectedIndex;
    var CatName = ddl.options[ddl.selectedIndex].value.toString();

    RecreateLegend(CatName)
}

function RecreateLegend(CatName) {
    var LegDiv = dojo.byId("LegendDiv");

    if (LegendControl == null) {
        LegendControl = new esri.dijit.Legend({
            map: map,
            layerInfos: [{
                layer: map.getLayer(CatName),
                title: " "
            }]
        , respectCurrentMapScale: false
        }, LegDiv);
        LegendControl.startup();
    } else {
        var Layer = map.getLayer(CatName);
        LegendControl.refresh([{ layer: Layer, title: ' '}]);
    }

}

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

derekswingley1 — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:32:25 GMT

Does LoadLegend run throughout the life of your app or is RecreateLegend called from other places?

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

GregoryDillon — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:01:30 GMT

Does LoadLegend run throughout the life of your app or is RecreateLegend called from other places?

LoadLegend is called when the drop drown list (ie. select option) is changed. The drop down list contain the category name which are the "id" on each dynamic layer.

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

derekswingley1 — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 10:27:15 GMT

Using refresh() might not be the best way to do this. Apologies for sending you down that road.

The legend respects layer visibility so if you're using respectCurrentMapScale: false, and you toggle your layer's visibility, the legend should update correctly.

Instead of trying to manually refresh the legend, can your event handler that fires when your drop-down changes update a layer's visibility? That would look something like:

var layer = map.getLayer(layerId);
layer.setVisibility(!layer.visible);

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

GregoryDillon — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 10:27:18 GMT

Using refresh() might not be the best way to do this. Apologies for sending you down that road.

The legend respects layer visibility so if you're using respectCurrentMapScale: false, and you toggle your layer's visibility, the legend should update correctly.

Instead of trying to manually refresh the legend, can your event handler that fires when your drop-down changes update a layer's visibility? That would look something like:
var layer = map.getLayer(layerId);
layer.setVisibility(!layer.visible);

So in other words the legend doesn't work on invisible layer period!

I ended up creating a temporary layer setting the visibility for the layers I wanted on the legend, adding it to the map, pointing the legend to it and then doing a refresh and then deleting the layer from the map. Pretty kluggy!

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

derekswingley1 — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:15:48 GMT

So in other words the legend doesn't work on invisible layer period!

In the context of a layer object, layer visibility and the visible scale range for a layer are mutually exclusive. This is not intuitive. We've discussed this internally but have not come up with a cleaner implementation for the API. A layer's visible property can be true (and when it is, it should be included in the legend), but if you're outside the visible scale range for the layer, you do not see it on the map. This is what I was suggesting. If it's not what you're seeing, please contact support and log a bug.

Re: "No Legend" appears in Legend some ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers

GregoryDillon — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:23:10 GMT

In the context of a layer object, layer visibility and the visible scale range for a layer are mutually exclusive. This is not intuitive. We've discussed this internally but have not come up with a cleaner implementation for the API. A layer's visible property can be true (and when it is, it should be included in the legend), but if you're outside the visible scale range for the layer, you do not see it on the map. This is what I was suggesting. If it's not what you're seeing, please contact support and log a bug.

I think the respectCurrentMapScale flag makes sense. It seems to me the Legend just needs another option to allow it to show layers that are not visible regardless of scale. In other just the same way the service call to the legend works (http://.../Legend).

As an example of such a need:

My app is designed for mobile. I am trying very hard not to display anything like a info window on the map. This often is annoying to the user and means limited space to touch things. For that reason when the user selects the legend icon the map disappears and goes to a dedicated screen just for the legend. I wanted the legend to show every layer the user could turn on in the map. They select the layer name (this used to be category or dynamic service ID, but the spec changed at the end of this post) and legend is then focus on that layer whether it is turned on or not. My fix was to add a temporary layer using the url from a layer already retrieved from the map which I look up by the layer name (not the dynamic service's name but the actual name of the layer - ie via layerinfos). I think had get the layer id and add to the temporary layer's visiblelayers to flip it on. If the map had been visible (for my app its not) the user would have seen the layer added to the map (really bad). If the legend just had this new flag I would have just needed to turn it on.

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