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Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

sroberts_uuF21 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:00:42 GMT

Hello!

I am building out a simple mapping application using Experience Builder. I have a layer within my web map that I am using for arcade expressions within my popups but I don't want the layer showing up in my legend or layer list. In the past, when using map viewer classic and WAB, this process of hiding the layer in my layer list was pretty straightforward but it doesn't seem to be a functionality within Experience Builder/the new version of Map Viewer.

I have figured out how to hide the layer from my legend but still no luck with the layer list. It seems like such a simple functionality, I would be surprised for it not to be supported yet.

Any assistance is much appreciated!

Thanks!

Thanks1

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

TonghuiMing — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:41:29 GMT

@sroberts_uuF21 In ExB, you could try the following steps inside the Map Layers widget:

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

sroberts_uuF21 — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 04:34:30 GMT

Thank you for the response @TonghuiMing !

Unfortunately this does not solve our problem. The above suggested solution allows users to be able to turn the layer on and off in the app. We dont want users to even be able to see the layer in the map layers widget as an option. In WebAppBuilder there is an option to hide layers from the layer list widget but this does not seem like an option in Experience Builder.

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

TonghuiMing — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 05:55:09 GMT

@sroberts_uuF21 I see. Thanks for clarifying it. We will take a look.

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

ReinhardtBotha — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:26:42 GMT

Subscribed to the thread, I'm also interested in being able to do this.

@sroberts_uuF21 how were you able to hide layers from the legend widget?

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

JoshuaReyling — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 18:02:53 GMT

@ReinhardtBotha ,

To hide legend entries in experience builder, simply turn off the legend visibility in the layer properties within Map Viewer. The setting will persist in Experience builder.

Hope that helps.

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

ReinhardtBotha — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 06:32:21 GMT

Thanks so much for that @JoshuaReyling!

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

Anonymous User — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 13:11:17 GMT

Yes 100% agree, this problem should be fixed quickly.

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

MarkEastwood — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 16:26:21 GMT

Agreed, we also need to be able to remove layers from a layer list for the same reasons @sroberts_uuF21 mentioned above.

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

TonghuiMing — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 02:20:41 GMT

In the latest AGOL February release, the Map Layers widget has supported a new feature - "Customize layers":

This will help fulfill this specific case.

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

kreed — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:10:39 GMT

Is there a way to have this functionality added to Experience Builder in Enterprise as well?

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

TonghuiMing — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:57:46 GMT

This feature will not be included until Enterprise 11.2.

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

sroberts_uuF21 — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:02:59 GMT

@TonghuiMing this is great! Thank you!

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

lzk222 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 03:10:21 GMT

This may be a somewhat different issue, but how do I customize the layer widget ("tool") within the EB Map framework? I would like to achieve the same result of hiding some layers without removing them entirely from the web map.

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

JoshuaReyling — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:19:57 GMT

If you select the layers widget in the Wxb editor, there is now an option to 'customize layers'. selecting this pops out a new pane which will let you edit the visible layers in the widget. This has no effect on the layer visibility on the map, but it can disallow the toggling of visibility:

Hope that helps!

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

lzk222 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 23:53:03 GMT

Thanks, this is part of the solution. Note that what I'm speaking to is a little different. The difference is that the standalone layers widget is unlike the "tools" layer widget in terms of access and customization. My critique is that the "tools" widgets don't allow users the ability any level of customization (as is shown in your screenshot, JoshuaReyling)

.The solution to my use case is to, in fact...

Add the layers list widget again (as standalone)
Enable the customizable layers function (as shown in this thread)
Uncheck the wanted layers
Hide the standalone widget behind the map (this part was a little tricky, but some trial and error achieved the desired result).

A somewhat convoluted process, but it works. Apparently, the standalone widgets interact with the "tools" widget on the backend...wouldn't be surprised if this is some kind of happy accident that ESRI engineers aren't even aware of.

Overall, I think it would be a significant improvement if the devs could simply build in customization access for the "tools" versions of these widgets.

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

RhettZufelt — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:28:46 GMT

@lzk222 Is this still working for you?

I am having issues trying to hide a layer in the layers tool rather than the layer widget.

However, before struggling to figure out how to 'hide' the layer list widget, It looks like the settings are not transferring over to the tool.

Curious if this is still working for you, or if you have found a new way to hide a layer in the built in layer tool

Really like the layer tool as it doesn't need a wiget, doesn't take up space until opened, and, has a legend in it as well.

I do see that the legend part honors the don't show in legend in the web map.

Thanks for any input,

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

TonghuiMing — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:08:59 GMT

In the OOTB functions, the custom layers configurations are not supposed to be affected by the widget settings, since there are cases where multiple Layers widget are connected to the same map, and some might want them to display and control certain layers separately.

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

RhettZufelt — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:30:32 GMT

Thanks TonghuiMing, good to know.

So, still no way to hide layer visibility in the Layers 'Tool' then? Do you know if there are any plans for it?

Re: Hide a layer in the Map Layers Widget in Experience Builder

JoshuaReyling — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:44:18 GMT

@RhettZufelt , and @lzk222

A possible workaround for you:

Add a 'widget controller' widget to your map, and then add the map layers widget to that. It will show as an icon. Then you can move it to wherever. The look is slightly different, but it gives you about the same visuals and functionality as the layers tool.

layers tool map layers widget