idea render only when filtered in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

render only when filtered

JavierMadoz1 — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 06:53:00 GMT

Hi,

I find the "render only when filtered" dashboard option in the actions very useful, especially when the layer involved has many records that make it difficult to visualize it on a map.

I have not managed to do the same in Experience Builder.

It occurs to me that this functionality would be useful in the filter and query widgets.

Thank you.

Re: render only when filtered

DasheEbra — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 10:35:44 GMT

did you get any work around for that?

Re: render only when filtered

PhilipWeeks — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:05:35 GMT

I came up with a really stupid looking work around. It only works if your filter bank is OR'd, but if you have a filter with "Apply this filter automatically" and that always evaluates to false, this keeps the layer hidden until they turn on another clause in the OR group. It looks stupid because you to have this workaround filter at the top of the list and that you'd have to name something like "Hide layer when not filtered" or "Don't turn this off". A silly workaround for this is that I'm just going to put an opaque text box on top of that workaround filter so people can't see it.

Re: render only when filtered

DarraghOSullivan — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 11:59:10 GMT

Yes I'm totally in favour of this and would love if someone has a workaround. I use it all the time in Dashboards and need it here as well...

Re: render only when filtered

GarethBaker1 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:15:40 GMT

Just to echo the comments from others, this is a really useful feature in dashboards and would be great to have in Experience Builder.

Re: render only when filtered

andrewdc_tt — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 01:41:29 GMT

The lack of this feature is one reason I find myself coming back to Dashboards for some filtering use cases (especially in situations where initially unfiltered layers would result in a very slow app) - would be great to see it implemented here.

Re: render only when filtered

alni — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:25:23 GMT

This feature plus the capability to customize an initial no data message like "Select from list to filter chart" would be super helpful and make the apps much better visually.