idea Enable / Disable All Layers as a whole and within Layer group in ExB Map Layer Widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

Enable / Disable All Layers as a whole and within Layer group in ExB Map Layer Widget

DNMCSCADA — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:23:05 GMT

Hi Community,

It will be a great boon if there is an option to switch on or off All the layers in the layer widget, just like when you Control + click in ArcGIS Pro for enabling/disabling all the layers globally or within a Layer group.

Currently, we are developing a solution in ExB which has 300+ layers in multiple groups. Normally we keep these layers disabled, but when it is time to enable them, we have to manually enable every one of these, which is very time-consuming, so it will be a nice addition to layer management as a whole.

Regards

Re: Enable / Disable All Layers as a whole and within Layer group in ExB Map Layer Widget

TheRrrr42 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:58:17 GMT

Kudos on this,

I would also like some sort of click and drag or CTRL click to select and toggle multiple layers at a time. While not a perfect solution if you use the bookmark widget it will save the layer visibility options. The downside is that it will move the map widget back to the extent of the bookmark.

Re: Enable / Disable All Layers as a whole and within Layer group in ExB Map Layer Widget

MikeEdwards — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:18:11 GMT

This functionality was available in WAB.

Re: Enable / Disable All Layers as a whole and within Layer group in ExB Map Layer Widget

Thomas1 — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:00:18 GMT

I posted something similar for almost 2 years ago: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-questions/turn-all-layers-on-off-at-the-same...

Still waiting for a reaction from Esri... Do not have too much hope they will fixed this anytime soon.

And someone else posted this: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-questions/toggle-all-layers-on-off/td-p/1397095

Re: Enable / Disable All Layers as a whole and within Layer group in ExB Map Layer Widget

MattLayman — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:53:29 GMT

Another handy feature that somehow hasn't made it into ExB yet. @TonghuiMing, @Shen_Zhang or anyone else on the ESRI team, do you all happen to have this feature on the ExB roadmap? If not, can it be added?

Re: Enable / Disable All Layers as a whole and within Layer group in ExB Map Layer Widget

TonghuiMing — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:25:05 GMT

This feature has been provided in the latest AGOL Feb release:

Re: Enable / Disable All Layers as a whole and within Layer group in ExB Map Layer Widget

Thomas1 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:46:25 GMT

@TonghuiMing Thanks for the update.

Nice that this is added this is not really helping in maps with groups as it turns on/off all layers, sublayers, groups from the map. This would be much more usefull if this would change layer visibility only at the "first level" (tick boxes in the far left column, see attached image) and that the turn on/off option would be available for each goup.

Re: Enable / Disable All Layers as a whole and within Layer group in ExB Map Layer Widget

JohnGargiulo — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:43:46 GMT

In our organization we use multiple map layer widgets to organize our layers. One map layers widget for our multiple location types, one map layers widget for our competitor location types, one map layers widget for our performance by area, etc. It keeps the map layers organized and user interaction simple.

It seems this "Turn all layers on", even if the map layers widget is only a subset of all the layers, turns on every layer in the map. For us, this is over 100 layers. It seems the way the tool is programmed in ExB (leveraging the "enable layer batch options") does not work well for this design while it worked fine in WebApp Builder. I can't imagine a workflow where I would ever want to turn on all the layers in a map when only select layers are represented in specific map layers widget. Am I missing a setting?

Re: Enable / Disable All Layers as a whole and within Layer group in ExB Map Layer Widget

HastingsCountyGIS — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:41:49 GMT

Its great that the batch layer options were added in Feb, but it would be ideal if the "Turn all layers on" only applied to the ones present in the specific Layers widget you had open.

Our users were used to this functionality in WAB so its been a point of contention for our new ExB apps.