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Arcade - Return Layer Name (AGOL)

DavidFotheringham1 — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:16:23 GMT

I am looking for a way to return the layer name (as seen in the table of contents) using Arcade in a popup in AGOL.

Reason - I have 60+ individual study areas and when a user clicks on one it would be nice to have the pop up tell them which one it is. Each study area only has 1 feature in it. The attributes do not, currently, contain the study area name.

Solution 1 - add a field for each study area and include the name for easy pop up

Solution 2 - find out if Arcade can do it already

I know solution 1 will work but I am more intrigued to understand Arcade better and see if this is a function exists!

Re: Arcade - Return Layer Name (AGOL)

XanderBakker — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:06:16 GMT

Hi David Fotheringham ,

I was expecting to find a name property on the $layer object, but there doesn't seem to be one. I assume the optimal option would be to work with a single feature layer and the additional attribute to hold the study area for each feature.

You can use a python script to merge them together and add the additional attribute and publish the feature layer again.

Re: Arcade - Return Layer Name (AGOL)

DavidFotheringham1 — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:16:07 GMT

Thanks Xander Bakker‌. Glad it was not just me that could not find a 'name' property. I'll revert back just updating the layers with a 'name' field directly.

Re: Arcade - Return Layer Name (AGOL)

AlexNies2 — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:46:44 GMT

David,

It is low tec but you can use Concatenate and just type out the layer name.
Example: Concatenate(['Layer Name',$feature.Label], ':')

Re: Arcade - Return Layer Name (AGOL)

dzahsh — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:38:09 GMT

GetFeatureSetInfo(GetFeatureSet($feature)).layerName

Re: Arcade - Return Layer Name (AGOL)

DanielKarkoszka — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 01:36:34 GMT

Thanks. This is the solution I needed!

Re: Arcade - Return Layer Name (AGOL)

cat206 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:01:22 GMT

Hi @dzahsh , do you by any chance know a way to get the layer alias rather than the name?

Re: Arcade - Return Layer Name (AGOL)

dzahsh — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:17:35 GMT

@cat206 This will return the custom Layer title as set in a Web Map :
GetFeatureSetInfo(GetFeatureSet($feature)).webMapLayerTitle

More info about different properties of FeatureSets :
https://developers.arcgis.com/arcade/function-reference/featureset_functions/#getfeaturesetinfo