topic Re: Filters in a Window in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Filters in a Window

JonathanMcDougall — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:54:48 GMT

So, I thought I was being smart, clearly failed again. 🙂

To save screen "real-estate" I thought it would be good to have a number of filters brought forward through a window. The screengrab below shows the result is correct as I apply a filter from the window, I've included the count which I used to verify it was working, however, as soon the window is deactivated (clicked off) it clears the filter.

Is there a setting, or something I'm missing to keep the filter(s) active after closing the window?

Re: Filters in a Window

ShengdiZhang — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 02:05:50 GMT

Hi Jonathan,

I can reproduce your issue and confirm that it is a bug. We will look into it.

Before this bug can be fixed, there is a work around that you can use the filter widget's icon arrangement style.

Thanks for your reporting.

Regards,

Shengdi

Re: Filters in a Window

JonathanMcDougall — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 06:12:10 GMT

@ShengdiZhang

Hi, thanks for the response.

Have tried your suggestion, however, same result with the filter "switching off" as soon as I close the window. All filters remain active, using the other arrangements too, right to the point of clicking off window.

Looking forward to the bug-fix.

Re: Filters in a Window

ShengdiZhang — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 08:04:06 GMT

Sorry I didn't make it clear in my last reply. What I mean is that you can put the icon filter widget on the page, but not on the window.

As for the window issue, after discussion it is not an easy bug to fix (or more like an enhancement), and I'm afraid it cannot be solved in the next release.

Regards,

Shengdi

Re: Filters in a Window

AndyWells — Wed, 10 May 2023 20:18:02 GMT

Was there ever a solution to this? I have the same problem. The filter in the window works fine, I can actually see the map update in the background. But as soon as I close the window, the map reverts back to not being filtered. I wanted a wizard style set of intro screens to step users through filtering the map, if possible. It's so close to working.

Re: Filters in a Window

AndyWells — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 14:57:04 GMT

(Still wondering about this.)

Re: Filters in a Window

dcallaghan — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:45:07 GMT

@ShengdiZhang I too would be really interested in a solution to this, for the same screen real-estate and wizard format reasons as the other users in this thread @AndyWells @JonathanMcDougall

Re: Filters in a Window

Andrew-Bowne — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:06:32 GMT

Any further updates? I'm running into the same issue and would really like to persist the filter when the window is closed.

Re: Filters in a Window

SydorukMariya — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:05:12 GMT

I would also really appreciate this to be fixed. The workaround with the filter button format only works if you have one filter widget to use, while I wanted to include two separate filter widgets in a column in the window... I guess another workaround will be to make a button to open a sidebar panel with filters (a type of trigger that's already available on AGOL and on Enterprise from 11.3).

Re: Filters in a Window

ShengdiZhang — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:57:50 GMT

This bug is fixed in the June 2025 AGOL release.

Re: Filters in a Window

ColinBergmann_ct — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:50:51 GMT

@ShengdiZhang This bug is not fixed for me in July 2026. Perhaps the June 2026 updated reverted it? Update: It seems like it only resets the filter when the window is set as a splash screen.

Re: Filters in a Window

ShengdiZhang — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:29:26 GMT

Currently, this is expected behavior for a splash window. Splash windows are a special case, and we're still working on it.

Re: Filters in a Window

AndresMorenoVasquez — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:51:50 GMT

@ShengdiZhang, understood! Thanks for confirming that splash windows act as a special case here. If there is an enhancement bug logged for the splash window filter persistence, please let us know so we can vote on it!

As a side note on the "React" side of things in Exp B— I imagine this stems from how the splash window's lifecycle is handled compared to standard windows. It seems like closing the splash screen causes it to fully unmount from the DOM, which triggers a cleanup function in the Filter widget's useEffect hook. That unmount cleanup likely clears the applied SqlExpression from the jimu-core DataSourceManager. If so, a potential fix might be to just toggle the splash window's CSS visibility (display: none) instead of destroying the React node entirely

Our use case: Example

Thanks!