idea Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer in ArcGIS Online Ideas

Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

MatthewMcMillan1 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:59:29 GMT

The new Map Viewer now allows layers to be grouped, which is very useful.

Is it possible to have this feature extended to sub groups like the below?

Thanks!

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

RussRoberts — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:30:47 GMT

Currently we do not create sub group layers but if you publish them from Pro we will honor them and you can drag and drop or move other layers into those sub groups.

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

MatthewMcMillan1 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:36:26 GMT

Russell,

Thanks for your reply.

When I publish from Arc GIS Pro Desktop and add the Web Layer to a Web Map on ArcGIS online, it adds the layers to the map individually.

Is there a method to do this where it honors the layers created?

Thanks

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

RussRoberts — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:38:09 GMT

What version of Pro are you using?

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

MatthewMcMillan1 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:39:02 GMT

Basic

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

RussRoberts — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:40:08 GMT

I meant what version number 😅

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

MatthewMcMillan1 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:41:23 GMT

Oh 😅

I'm on 2.6 at the moment. I'm updating now to 2.8. Will it work through 2.8?

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

RussRoberts — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:44:50 GMT

Its ok its Monday haha. Pro supported publishing the sub group layers in 2.7 so 2.8 should be good.

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

MatthewMcMillan1 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:45:57 GMT

Excellent thank you!

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

Anthony — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 22:08:55 GMT

Subgroups would be useful in my case where I'm not the data publisher, rather my maps are an aggregate of various map services. Having nested groups would greatly improve the usability of my layer list.

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

MatthewMcMillan1 — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:43:47 GMT

Hi again @RussRoberts,

I updated the version and published a new web layer using the 'Share' >> 'Web Layer' >> 'Publish Web Layer' and imported the feature layer to the New Map Viewer, and it extracted the layers again instead of keeping the groups and sub groups I had. Am I missing something?

I manually created the layers I needed (although no sublayers) and imported the new map in the Web App Builder (Developer Edition) and it extracted the layers again.

Can you advise?

Thanks again for your help

Matthew

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

RussRoberts — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:19:17 GMT

Group layers are not supported at the item level for feature layers or at the service level. You will have the share the whole map from Pro with the group layers if you want to have that structure in place or use Map Viewer to create the group layers.

Also Web App Builder is 3.x JSAPI based app and does not support group layers and only 4.x apps like experience builder will support the group layer organization.

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

DavidWittmann — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:37:02 GMT

@RussRoberts I think adding this functionality would be incredibly useful for organizing and controlling the visibility of layers in the new Map Viewer and in 4.x apps like Experience Builder. I can think of an example adding layers that we are not the publisher like the Living Atlas layers for Active Hurricanes, Cyclones and Typhoons. Adding that whole service to the Map Viewer results in 11 individual layers being added, each with their own toggles for visibility. If you add all those layers to a group layer of Weather Data, you can control the visibility of all the layers under that group with a single toggle. Being able to have additional nested group layers would allow you to organize those 11 layers into a Hurricanes group layer within the Weather Data group layer and control the visibility of all those layers at the same time.

I understand that there is a limitation with the 3.x apps but it seems like this is a much needed usability feature for the future of the rest of the Esri apps (4.x JSAPI and beyond).

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

RussRoberts — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:45:46 GMT

Map Viewer does support nested group layers. You can publish them from Pro in a web map or author them in Map Viewer. We are looking into a group layer item but this does not have a set release date. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

DavidWittmann — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:02:47 GMT

@RussRoberts Oh, interesting! I work mostly in the ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1 version of the Map Viewer so I only see the following options for grouping:

All of these grouping options pertain to those top level groups and not nested group layers.

It's good to hear that they have been added to the ArcGIS Online version of the Map Viewer. Any idea of when these nested layers will make into into a version of ArcGIS Enterprise?

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

RussRoberts — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:33:12 GMT

looks like enterprise picked it up at 11.0

Re: Grouped Sub-Layers in New Map Viewer

DavidWittmann — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:38:22 GMT

Thanks for looking into that, Russell! This just gives me another reason to upgrade to the latest version of Enterprise.