topic Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles? in ArcGIS Online Questions

Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

DougBrowning — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 22:31:18 GMT

I have posted some test Vector Tile Packages to AGO. Does anyone know if there is a way to get attributes in a popup? It sounds possible in the help but only for a custom web app. I see that you can now add a popup for a map service or cache tiles by pointing to a Feature Service but I do not see this option for Vector Tiles.

I think the ability to change color is still in development correct?

Also please add the ability to see Vector Tile packages and/or Vector services in ArcMap!

Thanks

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 22:42:20 GMT

did you go through the help topic on popups? View pop-ups—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

DougBrowning — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 23:46:01 GMT

That page just talks about viewing popups..

On this page it says its possible but the Popup button will not show for Vector Tiles.

Configure pop-ups—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS

Enable pop-ups on hosted tile layers without feature data

You can display pop-ups on hosted tile layers that don't have any attribute data by specifying a feature layer with the data you want to show.

Open the map in the map viewer, click Details, and click Contents.
Browse to the sublayer of the hosted tile layer where you want to display attribute data, click More Options , and click Enable Pop-up.
Specify how you want to choose a layer—Choose from my items or Enter a URL for a layer.
- If you selected to choose from your items, check the box if you want to include items from your organization, select a map or feature layer from the list, and select a sublayer in the layer to use in the pop-up.
- If you selected to enter a URL, enter a URL, for example, http://<Server>/ArcGIS/rest/services/<Service>/<LayerId> and select a sublayer in the layer to use in the pop-up.
Click Enable Pop-up.

Tip:

You can follow these same steps for displaying pop-ups on cached map image layers that don't have any attribute data.

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 23:57:09 GMT

Well, I keep getting into a loop of publish this, share that, beta this, so in short, I can find no direct answer. I would direct you to the help topics on vector tile layers and how to publish them etc etc, but I suspect you have already seen that. good luck

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

KellyGerrow — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 01:05:02 GMT

Hi Doug,

Enabling pop ups on vector tiles in the map viewer is currently unavailable.

You can change the colours in a vector basemap:

Here is a blog that outlines how to customize vector tiles:

https://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2015/11/19/how-to-customize-esri-vector-basemaps/

It also includes a link to a sample that includes text editing with visual updates:

https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-vectortile-style-editor (Follow the “View it live” link)

-Kelly

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

DougBrowning — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:14:49 GMT

Thanks I figured it was not ready yet.

Note one link above has a bad link. Also for me the Style tool just shows a blank screen once I pick a Vector Tile package.

I was more hoping to see the ability for end users be able to change via a button in AGO not a json hack (but I know it is really early on in the process).

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

DougBrowning — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 02:52:13 GMT

Also the help for the Vector tiles is wrong. This code does not work. It keeps saying the value type for in_map is wrong.

Create Vector Tile Package—Data Management toolbox | ArcGIS for Desktop

p = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("c:\\temp\\myproject.aprx")

for m in p.listMaps():

print("Packaging" + m.name)

arcpy.CreateVectorTilePackage_management(m, m.name + '.vtpk', "INDEXED", 295828763.795777, 1128.497176)

It just has "Map" for the in_map from the snippet but that of course does not work in script. I have yet to find anything it likes. Any hints?

#arcpy.management.CreateVectorTilePackage("Map", r"C:\Vector\Settings.vtpk", "ONLINE", None, "INDEXED", 295828763.795778, 564.248588, r"C:\Vector\SettingsIndex.shp", None, None)

The tool to create the vector index will also not accept in_map. Its help has a sample from some other tool??

Create Vector Tile Index—Data Management toolbox | ArcGIS for Desktop

The following Python window script demonstrates how to use the CreateVectorTileIndex tool in immediate mode.

import arcpy from arcpy 
import env 
env.workspace = "C:/data/cartography.gdb/transportation" 
arcpy.CreateIndexTiles_cartography("CURRENT", "tiles", 10000)

Also when copying the snippet from Pro it has another parameter with the value ONLINE that does not exist in the help.

#arcpy.management.CreateVectorTileIndex("Map", r"C:\Vector\SettingsIndex.shp", "ONLINE", None, 10000)

Please let me know the correct params or point me to help files that are correct.

Thanks

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:23:10 GMT

Create Vector Tile Package—Data Management toolbox | ArcGIS for Desktop

ONLINE is clearly an option in service_type from the pro 1.2 help topics

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

DougBrowning — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:30:09 GMT

For CreateVectorTilePackage yes but for CreateVectorTileIndex no. You must have seen my message before I edited it - I had them in the wrong order at first.

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

AnninaHirschi_Wyss1 — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 07:54:06 GMT

Hi Kelly,

Are pop up / Attribute queries for Vector Tiles already under consideration for a future release, or is this feature "out of the product plan"? Thanks, Annina

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

JoshuaBixby — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 22:54:22 GMT

KGerrow-esristaff‌, any updates on this follow-up question from a.hirschi-wyssesri-rw-esridist‌? It has been about six months, and from what I can gather poking around Esri sites and Google, there isn't much to report on. I am hoping there is, and I am just missing it. Thanks.

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

NicolasGIS — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:19:09 GMT

Hello Kelly,

Do you know if this is something in the roadmap ?

It seems to be a very promising when looking at it:

Get features under the mouse pointer | Mapbox

Thanks,

Nicolas

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

AnninaHirschi_Wyss1 — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 06:49:25 GMT

Nicolas‌, while we're waiting for an answer from Kelly and/or Katie, you might vote for this: Vector Tile Popups (if not yet done).

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

KellyGerrow — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:17:58 GMT

Hi Nicolas,

There is currently some work being done on a project to include some functionality. I'll update this post when i have a more specific timeline.

-Kelly

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

JohnChmura — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:51:59 GMT

Kelly please consider posting early prototype to the ESRI Github page, as was done with heatmap layer, so we can begin to experiment with this feature before it is included in main JS API.

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

DavidWilton — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 05:18:40 GMT

Are there any updates on this? We had a use case where we want to get some attribute information on mouse over such as the name of the location they are hovering over.

I believe this information exists in the Esri tile layers, it just isn't exposed by hit test. To demonstrate this I include two samples both using the same Esri Tile layer (they look different because one is styled one not). Once using the open layers API and the other using Esri JSAPI

Open layers

https://codesandbox.io/s/esri-vector-tile-mouse-over-open-layers-293f6https://codesandbox.io/s/vector-tile-info-forked-293f6?file=/main.js

JSAPI
https://codepen.io/davidwilton/pen/RwVXgva?editors=1000

With open layers I not only get the name of the item but also the NLS

With Esri I get nothing but the layer name

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

ahargreaves_FW — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 21:49:19 GMT

This is clearly indicated as a feature in ESRI help doc, but I'm unable to get anything working. See this posting:https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/vector-tile-layers-and-querying/m-p/1092495/highlight/true#M41899

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

QuantitativeFuturist — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:32:10 GMT

I love how nobody can get this working but esri claims it's a supported feature. ESRI STAFF - please provide an update on this with clear instructions that ACTUALLY WORK. Thanks

Re: Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

Samuel_McAuley — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:29:53 GMT

I have run into the same issues being expressed here. I have published my vector tile layer from ArcGIS Pro 3.3 and published an associated feature layer so that I can leverage the attribute querying functionality. In ArcGIS Enterprise 11.1, when I try to configure attribute queries I just get the generic 'Unable to configure the attributes at this time'. This bug - BUG-000146829 for Portal for ArcGIS (esri.com) - is lodged for Enterprise 10.9.1 but it seems as though this has not been resolved even for newer versions... Very frustrating.