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Improve Symbol Levels in ArcGIS Online

ZacharySmith9 — Fri, 13 May 2016 23:59:41 GMT

When I set symbol levels in a service and use that service in an AGOL map, the symbol levels are ignored or applied at random. Either create an option for symbol levels in AGOL, or improve the application of symbol levels from services. Currently, I would have to have 4 polygon layers, ordered appropriately, instead of 1 layer with 4 polygons ordered by symbol level.

Re: Improve Symbol Levels in ArcGIS Online

DavidWheelock — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 19:41:29 GMT

ABSOLUTELY! Hit that wall yesterday.

What did the fish say when it ran into a wall? Dam!

Please respect the ArcMap Symbol Levels in ArcGIS Online maps or add Symbol Levels capability to ArcGIS Online maps. Thanks in advance!

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NolanAlbarelli — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:22:30 GMT

This is a big issue. when you style a hosted feature layer, at minimum the order in the styling should be what sets the symbol levels..

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MelanieWilliams1 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:08:30 GMT

I also run into this problem constantly!

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DavidAskov2 — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 20:47:57 GMT

This is quite important. Have to do a lot of data conditioning to work around this - please help me be more productive.

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AndySkelton — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:38:10 GMT

This is absolutely something I would love to see still. Currently my workaround is to set transparencies for the items that cover up others, but I would love to not have to do this, and set the draw order myself.

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Anonymous User — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:11:57 GMT

This issue is very important in time aware layers where I cannot split the layer up or use transparencies since I need it to display with a time slider in a WebApp. Being able to set the drawing order in the layer is vital to our map displaying properly. Please make this possible in AGOL asap!!

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BrianBaldwin — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:55:11 GMT

Any updates related to this?

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Team_150Water_en_Bodem — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 14:05:06 GMT

still missing this

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DerekPhyn — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:04:53 GMT

Still waiting... what is the status with this one esri?

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MarcoBoeringa — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:52:55 GMT

While I agree symbol levels are absolutely crucial to getting high quality cartographic output, especially for displaying roads, I think ESRI will be very reluctant to add this to AGOL. Symbol levels, depending on the complexity, can add a significant number of extra drawings cycles to build up the map image. While this is usually OK for a desktop application, this is probably to big a performance hit for the online AGOL rendering ecosystem.

A possible solution would be to only allow using symbol levels in locally build tile caches, so that the burden is not on the ESRI rendering ecosystem, but just on your own local hardware.

Of course, with the recent push for vector tiles, that have their own limitations in terms of supported symbology, there may be other caveats as well to implementing something like this.

Re: Improve Symbol Levels in ArcGIS Online

SimonJackson — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 03:03:34 GMT

Not tested it, but is one workaround to:

Add an integer field
Apply a ranking to it based upon attribute query/calculate field
- i.e. Important features = 1; lower priority features = 2
Perform a sort on this new field, with higher priority features at the bottom of your table.
I think I am right in saying that a hosted feature layer will respect the drawing order based upon ObjectID
- Will draw features based upon ObjectID field, so final render - features that are drawn last will be on top?

Re: Improve Symbol Levels in ArcGIS Online

CurtHarvey — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:47:11 GMT

Hey Simon - actually my experience is a hosted feature layer does draw based on table order (OID).

Here's a post/question I added recently after realizing that web maps dont honor drawing order...and the drawing order changes randomly based on zoom scale. So this goes beyon symbol level settings - much more basic darwing problems with web maps.

Re: Improve Symbol Levels in ArcGIS Online

CurtHarvey — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:47:53 GMT

and problems w/my spelling...

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CurtHarvey — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:32:38 GMT

"actually my experience is a hosted feature layer does draw based on table order (OID)."

I meant to say Does NOT draw on OID.

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Anonymous User — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:55:29 GMT

I am running into this same issue. I have a layer, that I would like to be editable in a collector map, that has multiple symbologies. It would be nice to be able to set the draw levels for each symbol. It is a road layer, so it would be nice if you could set interstates and highways to draw at the county level, streets to draw at the city level, so on and so forth. Doesn't seem possible without creating a completely separate layer for each.

The only workaround would be to create a tile package, as long as you don't need to edit any of that data.

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danashney — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 03:50:05 GMT

At the very least, have drawing order reflect the order in the legend. Lack of this functionality makes half of my layers un-usable as services. Currently, the only way to reproduce my Pro symbology would be to subset each thematic category that each layer has, create services from them all, then order them myself in the web map. That is a tedious amount of work for something so simple in Pro.

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GIS_MJ — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:06:03 GMT

Thanks for the integer field suggestion - I will try that.. but symbology layer drawing seriously needs to be implemented in AGOL. The hosted feature layers are almost useless without it in some circumstances.

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IrinaBeal — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:06:43 GMT

Please allow symbology to be copied / imported from either a symbol layer or an existing layer within a map.

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KristinKartunen — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 18:43:41 GMT

Please implement this. We need to control the drawing order of all symbols.