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Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

Leewalker — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 19:06:29 GMT

Hello,

I have been using Experience Builder. I use the Legend widget to display map symbology, and the Layers widget for the ability to toggle layers on and off. It would be really great if these two functions could be combined into the same widget.

In other words, I want to see the layer's symbol included in the Layers widget. This concept was in the Layers widget in Web AppBuilder.

Hoping you will do something similar in Experience Builder. Thanks!

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

AustinCanty1 — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:14:38 GMT

It would also be great to have the option to show check boxes instead of the eye icon to toggle layer visibility.

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

Leewalker — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:44:07 GMT

@AustinCanty1

Yes! Totally agree.

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

YvonneBooysen — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 10:59:43 GMT

Seems like this keeps coming up - would really love to see some progress on this. Makes absolutely no sense needing to make space for the layer visibility and legend widgets especially when users are expecting them to be combined.

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

WC48 — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 21:39:52 GMT

Agreed! If you wanted to show only the layer list because of space availability, you could eliminate the legend altogether.

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WC48 — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 21:52:20 GMT

It would also be nice to be able to move the "default" tools anywhere on the page, even docking them in a widget controller with other tools you want to add. Currently, you only have 3 fixed options and sizes.

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

Gene_Sipes — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 17:20:59 GMT

Yes, this.

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HelenCooper — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:15:58 GMT

Agree strongly. I think this has been raised many times. We'd love to see this implemented.

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

Gene_Sipes — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:23:10 GMT

I spoke with a member of the Experience Builder team at the Dev Summit, and they said they are shooting for this functionality in a November 2023 update. However this was just a "off the cuff" sort of predication. As we all know, tech road maps can and do change frequently.

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HelenCooper — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:28:06 GMT

Thanks @Gene_Sipes , fingers crossed!

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Laura — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:11:02 GMT

Agree. Being pushed and forcing myself to switch over to EXB and then having my maps not be very useful sucks. Going back to webapp builder and waiting and recreating doesn't seem like the move either. A waste of time either way. Really wish EXB was getting more attention right now.

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

craragon77 — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:16:05 GMT

lol its really cathartic to see that im not the only one with this issue.

Does anyone have any tricks to implement this with the custom widget? There is a typescript/react custom widget available on github which can be cloned and customized which is linked here . That's what I'm working on now. If I find anything I'll comment it here but for now open to suggestions to get un-jammed. Thx!!!!!!

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

KariBuckvold — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:45:09 GMT

I am new to EXB and I like it so far but I came across this stumbling block, I'm disappointed that this was the design. This does not make sense to take away a functionality that was available in Web AppBuilder. Screen real estate is already tight without having the need for two widgets where one worked before!

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

BlakeTerhune — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 22:35:32 GMT

I'm trying to build an app that focuses on comparing the different layers in the map and something like this would be great. I'm trying to explore making some kind of interactive legend with the list widget but I can't see how to connect an action to toggle layer visibility. Basically a basemap gallery type of widget but it controls the layers instead of the basemap.

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

Christian_Sebaly — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:41:10 GMT

Great idea - I second that. Having two widgets (layers and legend) when one can do the job makes is somehow inefficient and not very user friendly.

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

JeffreyThompson2 — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:58:37 GMT

This idea was implemented in the Map Layers Widget of the 1.12 Experience Builder update.

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

Christian_Sebaly — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:08:10 GMT

@JeffreyThompson2, That's cool. Thx for the info!

Re: Experience Builder - Combine Legend Widget and Layers Widget

StephanieStedman — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:42:17 GMT

Not finding the option to include legend in layer list very usable, we have a lot of groups of layers, with groups of data within them. If you enable the legend option it only shows the symbology for the layers which are turned on and then it's impossible to navigate to the other layers in that group.
Bring back the WAB layerlist with symbology GUI!