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Remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online

Anonymous User — Fri, 26 May 2017 00:39:00 GMT

How can I remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online?

Re: Remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online

JayantaPoddar — Fri, 26 May 2017 02:58:00 GMT

In case you have authored the layer in ArcGIS Desktop, You could control duplicate labels while authoring. Working with duplicate labels—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

Not sure of any option on AGOL though.

Re: Remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online

KellyGerrow — Tue, 30 May 2017 02:09:44 GMT

Can you share your web map? If the duplicate labels weren't a result of how the data is created, check to see if there are two layers with labels in the map. If there is only one operational layer, try expanding the basemap layer to see if there are any reference layers displaying:

Choose basemap—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS

Re: Remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online

IngridMans — Tue, 22 May 2018 13:44:29 GMT

Any more advice on this? I had set up my layers to remove duplicate label in Pro and then published from there, but then that setting was not maintained in my feature layer and I have too many labels.

Re: Remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online

Anonymous User — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:57:21 GMT

As far as I know, there is still no option to "remove duplicate labels". But maybe there is now a way to do this by using an Arcade Expression...?

Re: Remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online

KellyGerrow — Thu, 31 May 2018 22:26:32 GMT

Are there duplicate values in your dataset or has the layer been added multiple times to the web map?

-Kelly

Re: Remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online

Anonymous User — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 19:17:20 GMT

Hi Kelly,

Thank you for your answer.

There are no duplicated features in my layer and the layer has not been added multiple times in the web map.

Here is an example of the scenario:

- There is a (1) Hosted Feature Layer added to my web map which contains say 20 features / parcels.

- Each parcel has an individual Object ID, and other attributes in a series of fields.

- There is also a field containing ownership information.

- Multiple features/parcels can have the same ownership information.

- If I want to display ownership labels for each parcel, therefore, my map will display multiple times the same owner's name wince multiple parcels have the same ownership attribute.

I would like to be able to remove the duplicated owner names from the labels and display the name only once even if the name comes up multiple times in my attribute table. This is possible when using "remove all duplicates" in ArcGIS Pro Labeling Properties and in ArcMap as well. I would rather not have to remove the repeated owner's names from my attribute table or merge features.

Please let me know if this is of any help, or if I am making things more confusing...

Thank you!

Alix

Re: Remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online

KellyGerrow — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 22:48:54 GMT

Thanks Alix,

This is helpful. There isn't the capability to remove duplicate labels in web maps currently in ArcGIS Online. I've made not of your workflow for consideration for the future, but would suggest logging this on the ideas site so others can promote the idea and share their workflows.

-Kelly

Re: Remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online

Anonymous User — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 22:52:04 GMT

Sounds good thank you Kelly!

Re: Remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online

erica_poisson — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:49:51 GMT

Hi Kelly,

I was curious if it was possible, or if there are plans to make it possible to remove duplicate labels in ArcGIS Online through Arcade?

Here is my example - my organization helps to manage the Open Space layer for the state of Massachusetts. In some cases, a Wildlife Management Area (for example) can be composed of multiple parcels. Each parcel within Open Space has a Site Name, on which I want to label the features. I've used an Arcade expression to only label features over a certain acreage, but in some cases a WMA can be composed of multiple very large parcels, so this doesn't really work well.

It would be great if there was a way to remove duplicate labels using Arcade. If we were able to specify a search distance, similar to how you do this in Maplex, I think it would be really helpful.

I've also attached a screen capture of my web map where I am trying to do this, just so you can see how messy it looks.

Thanks!

Erica

Re: Remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online

Ryan-Fahrenbruch — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:54:32 GMT

Has there been any update on this topic? I'm having a similar issue with the zoning map I maintain for a municipal government. The duplicate labels I want to remove are those for the streets layer. I don't want to merge the segments together because each segment has its own address range. I want to keep each individual segment but only have one label like I do in my ArcGIS Pro document.

Re: Remove duplicate labels on a Feature Layer in ArcGIS Online

JennaWebb — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:52:49 GMT

We're encountering this too. We have an app/experience for our DPW that we've created and our streets layer has multiple segments with address ranges for each segment. I'd love to be able to remove duplicates like you can in Pro so that each segment isn't labeled on the web map.