Popup Opening overrides the definition expression of feature layer (used for filtering locations)

MirzaMuhammadAhsanAli — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:04:34 GMT

I am developing a custom widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder, I have apply the definition expression on a layer to filter the locations on the map(using a webmap from ArcGIS Enterprises portal in my application).

The issue is when I click on the location to view the popup, all locations starts displaying on map and this (#data_s=id%3AdataSource_1-Risk_Database_Master_2_2642%3A100941) has been added in the url.

So, it seems that popups in experience builder is managed through the Data Source. Can anybody help me to resolve this issue. Any documentation or tutorial for the datasource.

OR

Is it possible to disable this behaviour in ArcGIS Experience Builder, and handle the popup display programmatically.

@JeffreyThompson2 , @Ke_Xu , @ShengdiZhang

Here , how i am applying filter through defination expression on feature layer.

try { // find the layer(risk locations) in the map to alter the definationexpression according to selected tile where clause const layer: any = jimuMapView.view.map.layers.find((layer: any) => layer?.url === tile.layer); if (layer) { // Apply query as a definition expression layer.definitionExpression = tile.whereClause; await layer.refresh(); // Optional: Zoom to features const queryParam = new Query({ where: tile.whereClause, returnGeometry: true, // outFields: ['*'], }); const result = await query.executeQueryJSON(tile.layerUrl, queryParam); if (result.features.length > 0) { await jimuMapView.view.goTo(result.features.map((f) => f.geometry)); } else { await jimuMapView.view.goTo(jimuMapView.view?.map.initialViewProperties?.viewpoint?.targetGeometry); } } else { console.warn(`Layer with URL ${tile.layerUrl} not found in map`); console.log('Available layers:', jimuMapView.view.map.layers.toArray()); } } catch (error) { console.error('Error applying query to map:', error); }

Best Regards,

Re: Popup Opening overrides the definition expression of feature layer (used for filtering locations)

JeffreyThompson2 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:18:49 GMT

I am currently working on a Custom Filter Widget and also discovered that definitionExpressions don't really work. You will need to create your filter at the dataSource level. Here is the official example: https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-experience-builder-sdk-resources/tree/master/widgets/filter-feature-layer

And this is the most important block of code.

// First get the DataSourceManager instance const dsManager = DataSourceManager.getInstance(); // Get the data source using useDataSource.dataSourceId const useDataSource = props.useDataSources[0]; const ds: FeatureLayerDataSource = dsManager.getDataSource(useDataSource.dataSourceId) as FeatureLayerDataSource; // Build the queryParams, with the configured filterField and the value // that has been typed into the TextInput by the user const queryParams: SqlQueryParams = { where: `${props.config.filterField} LIKE '%${evt.target.value}%'` }; // Filter the data source using updateQueryParams function. ds.updateQueryParams(queryParams, props.id);

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