topic How to Turn On Labels and Enable Offline for a Web Map? in ArcGIS API for Python Questions

How to Turn On Labels and Enable Offline for a Web Map?

SH_DH — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:46:31 GMT

With the new Python API update I'm having trouble seeing how to turn on labels for a layer. I'm not seeing a parameter in layer properties. How can I turn these on?

Also, the recent update requires you to manually turn on Offline Enabled for a map. Is there a parameter for this?

Re: How to Turn On Labels and Enable Offline for a Web Map?

Clubdebambos — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:38:25 GMT

Hi @SH_DH,

To turn on/off labels you can use the following...

from arcgis.gis import GIS from arcgis.map import Map ## Access AGOL agol = GIS("home") ## get the WebMap as an Item Object wm_item = agol.content.get("WM_ITEM_ID") ## create the Map object from the Item Object webmap = Map(wm_item) ## the dictionary for the options parameter in update_layer() options_dict = { "showLabels" : True # or False } ## Map object > MapContent > update_layer() webmap.content.update_layer( index = 0, # index of the layer in the WebMap options = options_dict ) ## commit the change webmap.update()

This assumes that you have label classes already set in the WebMap that will be used once the labels are turned on.

All the best,

Glen

Re: How to Turn On Labels and Enable Offline for a Web Map?

SH_DH — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:23:17 GMT

Thanks Glen, I just finally returned to updating my code and your snippet worked.