topic Re: Why is it not possible to open a webmap with a specific feature? in ArcGIS Online Questions

Why is it not possible to open a webmap with a specific feature?

Anonymous User — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 20:15:26 GMT

During the last years I have waited for the ability to open a specific webmap and show a specific feature. It is easy to open a webmap and use a search criteria -but you could not search on ID.

Why doesn´t Esri want us to have this ablitity? It would drastically open up for new ways to use AGOL and Portal.

Re: Why is it not possible to open a webmap with a specific feature?

RickeyFight — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 20:18:45 GMT

Have you added your idea to Esri Ideas page?

ArcGIS Ideas

Re: Why is it not possible to open a webmap with a specific feature?

Anonymous User — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 20:26:03 GMT

Thanks for the Link, I will do it immediately.

Re: Why is it not possible to open a webmap with a specific feature?

KellyHutchins — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 17:18:53 GMT

You can open a web map to a specific feature using many of the configurable app templates. To get this functionality I configured the Minimalist app to have a custom url parameter setup to search the FID fiedl in the WildlifeClosures layer.

Then I add the id param to the end of the url and specify the id to search. We do this by adding &id=32 to then end of the app url.

http://www.arcgis.com/apps/Minimalist/index.html?appid=e62450e581f64b3b9f5ac10ca4aab7ab&id=32

More details on creating a configurable app can be found here: Configurable Apps