idea Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

Christian_Sebaly — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 14:32:41 GMT

The map layers widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder comes with this odd looking eye symbol to turn on/off layers. In addition to those symbols it would be great to see the implementation of radio buttons and/or classic tick boxes.

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

Curt_H — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 14:38:29 GMT

I wholeheartedly agree. Those eye symbols AGOL has adopted are terrible. The difference between an eye symbol with layer on and and the cross through it indicating layer off, is virtually indistinguishable and I thought my vision was halfway decent. Anyone with the slightest bit of sight issues I would expect to really struggle.

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

CMcDonald — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 10:33:24 GMT

Please implement this idea ESRI!

The tick boxes like you get in the WAB are much better than the 'eye' symbol.

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

MalcolmJacobson1 — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 21:04:24 GMT

Yes for the love of God, please do this ESRI. The 'eyes' are so hard to use compared to good old fashioned tick boxes. At least give us to option to choose tick boxes, even if 'eyes' are the default.

Take a quick glance at this image and see how much harder it is to easily see which layers are turned on/off in the web app builder vs experience builder.

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

Philip_Ohlinger — Wed, 03 May 2023 17:49:57 GMT

I honestly don't understand how the "eye" icon got implemented instead of the checkboxes. For a company that is concerned about design and usability for the general public, this was a horrible decision. I haven't implemented any public facing apps using experience builder yet in part because of this. ESRI, please fix this ASAP. Give us the option at least to change our preference for which icons to use, and have this be reflected across the system. Better yet, we need a layer list that functions like the one in WAB, where if you click on a layer you can see the legend for that layer beneath it.

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

feralcatcolonist — Thu, 18 May 2023 14:46:17 GMT

Maybe the eyeball is popular somewhere. Definitely not with anyone I've ever spoken to. If someone at Esri is super in love with it, I think a reasonable compromise is allowing a user to decide if they want that or some other flavor of checkbox instead.

This is a really low-hanging fruit.

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

TonghuiMing — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 08:59:16 GMT

This feature has been provided by Experience Builder Map Layers widget since the 2023 AGOL June release. Thank you.

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

feralcatcolonist — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:16:47 GMT

@TonghuiMing very happy to see that this was just released this month. I'd say we are about halfway to answering the original question with the implementation of the tickboxes.

Are radiobuttons on the roadmap?

And are there plans for any other kind of custom imagery that a user could implement?

Which ArcGIS Enterprise version will be the first release to have this change?

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

TonghuiMing — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:58:02 GMT

@feralcatcolonist

As for the radio buttons, or the custom images you mentioned - unfortunately, we have no plan to support them for now for this widget.

Radio buttons have specific UI meanings that differ from checkboxes, and they cannot apply to the majority of cases of the current Map Layers workflow - which custom images would lack as well.

As for the Enterprise version, @Jianxia would be a better resource to reach out to.

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

MarlboroughDistrict_Council — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 20:02:07 GMT

@TonghuiMing

Excellent! This is great, thanks ESRI

However... it seems the tick box option is only available in the stand alone Layers widget? If you are using the Layers option within a map, there is no options for tick boxes? Still can only use the eyes?

Can the tick box option be added here too please?

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

TonghuiMing — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 02:23:19 GMT

@MarlboroughDistrict_Council - Unfortunately, the answer is negative.

From Experience Builder's perspective, the tools inside Map widget configurations will provide no further configurations; also, we have confirmation that the API widget utilized by this will not support the tick box options - it is against their general design.

If advanced/customized features like these are needed, the stand-alone OOTB Map Layers widget is the way to achieve it.

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

Christian_Sebaly — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 08:44:51 GMT

@TonghuiMingand ExB-Team - great to see that the tick boxes option is available now. Also thumbs up for the "show legend" option in the layer list Thank You very much.

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

MarlboroughDistrict_Council — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 21:30:56 GMT

@TonghuiMingAll good, thanks for confirming

Do you know if the option to use tickboxes instead of eyeballs will be also rolled out to the map viewer in Dashboards?

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

TonghuiMing — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 01:39:07 GMT

@MarlboroughDistrict_Council From my understanding, this feature is supported only by the Experience Builder Map Layers widget. Other products are probably not going to support it.

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

NicklasJohansson — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:39:38 GMT

From which ArcGIS Enterprise version will be the first release to have this change? I can´t see this option in 11.1

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

TonghuiMing — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:59:54 GMT

@NicklasJohansson The feature was first added in the AGOL 2023 June release, and for Enterprise, it will be on version 11.2 and later.

Re: Tick boxes and radio buttons for map layers widget

Thomas1 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:42:36 GMT

@TonghuiMing Tickboxes are not aligned vertically when there are both single layers and groups. I understand this is to make space for the arrow, but we find it unintuitive. At first glance, it seems like the indented line is part of the non-indented one, similar to how it appears in an expanded layer group.