idea Ability to deselect features on Dashboards map in ArcGIS Dashboards Ideas

Ability to deselect features on Dashboards map

RonCaluza — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:38:17 GMT

When I use the Selector Tool in my Dashboard map, I notice that if I use the "Point" selection option, I can add to the current selection by holding the shift key when clicking a feature. This is helpful so that I don't need to clear out my selection and start over if I want to make a minor change to my selection. Sometimes I have several features selected (I often work with tracts), and it would be inefficient for me to select all of those features again.

Since we can add to our selected features by holding the shift key, I would like to also have the ability to remove (de-select) from the current set of selected features by holding the shift key and clicking on a feature that's already selected. This is would be helpful because I often have several features selected and I watch the data summaries for these features on my Dashboard (indicator boxes) as my selection changes. I'd like to make minor changes to my selection without having clear my selection and then do the selection all over again. Sometimes I may have 30 features selected at a time. It would be much easier to be able to remove one feature from that selection instead of re-selecting 29 features.

Here are the options in the selection tool The point option allows me to hold shift and add to the selection.

Here is an example of multiple features selected in an Dashboard Map. I'd like to be able to remove one of these features from the selection. Currently, the tool will let me add to the selection, but won't let me remove from the selection.

Re: Ability to deselect features on Dashboards map

RosemaryHatch — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:31:42 GMT

This would be useful for our organization as well. We have a dashboard set up for our IT division to analyze different potential fiber installation routes throughout the city, and they have asked for this functionality multiple times.

Re: Ability to deselect features on Dashboards map

DavidUrena — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:43:41 GMT

Has there been any updates on this? It would be very helpful.

Re: Ability to deselect features on Dashboards map

RonCaluza — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:54:25 GMT

Thank you for saying that David. Unfortunately, I still haven't heard anything about if Esri would consider this improvement to deselect features from a Dashboard map, and I haven't had a chance to experiment with the latest version of Dashboards to see if the mapping selection tools are any different.

I don't understand why they didn't include that functionality since it's such a basic ability that we have in ArcGIS Pro and even the older ArcMap. I hope they see this thread for this request at some point, even though it's been nearly 3 years since I started this thread.