idea Allow labels to be toggled on or off from Field Maps app in ArcGIS Field Maps Ideas

Allow labels to be toggled on or off from Field Maps app

Geobunga — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:46:52 GMT

It would be helpful if the Field Maps application allowed someone to turn labels on or off for a layer where labels have been configured. There are times it is helpful for a layer to be labeled on our field maps, but having it labeled all the time is not practical or helpful. A simple toggle from the app would be nice.

Re: Allow labels to be toggled on or off from Field Maps app

LindsayRaabe_FPCWA — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:55:41 GMT

Not ideal, but a workaround that may work depending on your situation is a duplicate of the layer - one with labels on and the other off. You can then turn them on and off as required in the map layers list.

Re: Allow labels to be toggled on or off from Field Maps app

cbp-geus — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:03:49 GMT

We have the same issue with our field app, with not being able to turn off labels. Especially when the user is zooming out, the labels covers all the data points. Our only workaround so far is to only have labels shown at a certain large scale zoom interval.

I cannot advice to try having duplicate layers, especially if its the ones used for data collection, as this will break the app. Also, Field Maps does not support offline use for maps with duplicate layers Configure the map—ArcGIS Field Maps | Documentation, so just be aware of that.

Re: Allow labels to be toggled on or off from Field Maps app

LindsayRaabe_FPCWA — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 02:56:39 GMT

@cbp-geus yep - all very good points. To make it work offline you would need to create 2 different hosted views of the layer, not just duplicate the layer in the map. Scale intervals can certainly be beneficial to reduce that clutter as you zoom out.

Re: Allow labels to be toggled on or off from Field Maps app

ZachBodenner — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:18:28 GMT

Another one of those things that seem like it should be basic functionality. I don't think I am alone in this situation: A map is used in both a web Experience and Field Maps, and while Field Maps renders quickly enough usually that having labels on by default is not an issue, I really want to be able to default the labels to off in the web map for the purposes of the Experience.

Re: Allow labels to be toggled on or off from Field Maps app

jyh — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:28:10 GMT

Yes, please, add label toggles. Sometimes there are limits to what you can do with symbols. I'm working on a layer that has about 40 categories in the domain, far to many for different symbols to be understandable, especially in the field. There are times when the field user needs to see patterns in the data, and one way to do that would be to turn on labels.

Re: Allow labels to be toggled on or off from Field Maps app

Jhuan — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:01:52 GMT

Because of the excessive number of labels, I couldn't see what was on the map and walked into a grizzly den. For safety's sake, can you please implement a label toggle function in Field Maps.

Re: Allow labels to be toggled on or off from Field Maps app

bsnyder83 — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:52:18 GMT

This would be extremely helpful, please do implement this!

Re: Allow labels to be toggled on or off from Field Maps app

MWalz — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:56:49 GMT

Toggling labels on and off in Field Maps would be extremely useful. Even better would be also being able to change the attribute field for labels in Field Maps!

Re: Allow labels to be toggled on or off from Field Maps app

CyberForester — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:22:11 GMT

This is a basic function that should have been included way back in Collector. Filters are helpful to control clutter, but a label toggle is even more basic than a filter.

Re: Allow labels to be toggled on or off from Field Maps app

Kevin_MacLeod — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:42:37 GMT

I would suggest they add this before anything else, with Field Maps. It affects usability so much, and it is so simple to implement - low-hanging fruit.

One reason is that I have Field version of the SDE for collection to layers with GPS in the field. So I have all the layers there from both versions. So they can see the Default version, which gets edited by us in GIS and so it will actually have new features the field version will NOT have. (I only have time to QA and sync the version every few weeks so they get out of sync)

First of all, webmaps should work like Pro or ArcMap with labels. Feature weights being the most vital missing capability. Right now, let's say I have both Meters layers. And for every meter now, if it is present in both layers there is a duplicate label. With feature weight I could make only one of them labeled. But if it's only present in one or the other; either way, it would be labeled. As it is now, I simply can't have labels on the main Default version of the layers. They'll just have to click to see what it is. It works but is not intuitive.

A good workaround in the meantime (I suppose some years down the road Map Viewer will eventually get feature weights and other Maplex type stuff)... would a simple ON / OFF for labels. (So I could tell users, hey, just turn labels on if the Default version of layers, if you need) Should be fairly simple to implement.