https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/feature-selection-to-layer-view/idi-p/1549603 <P>You're in ArcGIS Pro.&nbsp; You're working with a hosted feature service with a lot of complex features, for example Tax Parcels.&nbsp; You make some intricate selections based on attributes and spatial filters, including some manual lasso selections.&nbsp;</P> <UL> <LI>You create a layer from your selection.&nbsp;</LI> <LI>Symbolize, update labels, set rendering scales.</LI> </UL> <P>All is well in the world.</P> <P>But how do I share that with a colleague?</P> <P>Oh, I'll just save the map and publish.</P> <P><EM>ArcGIS Pro:&nbsp;<STRONG>I'm sorry, Hal.&nbsp; I cannot do that (current web layer changes will be lost - selections not supported).</STRONG></EM></P> <P>Maybe I should just publish a new service.</P> <P><EM>Logic:</EM>&nbsp;<EM><STRONG>But then I have to manage the same data twice - I just want one Tax Parcel service.</STRONG></EM></P> <P>Well, there is no easy way to make this a view because the tools to make views are limited to attribute and multiple, different spatial filters including areas of manual selection.&nbsp; It's so much easier to do this in ArcGIS Pro.&nbsp; Oh well, time to do some hand crunching.</P> <P>But, what if you didn't have to? What if all that work on selecting your features could be preserved by creating a hosted layer view using the selection parameters? The selection criteria definition could be passed to the hosting portal to create a hosted view of the parent layer and the new hosted layer view item would be shareable, and no extra copy of data would be required.</P> <P>I dream of such a day, as I stare at the near 10,000 tax parcels I have selected using multiple methods, and now I need to recreate in a hosted layer view... by hand... again.</P> Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:22:55 GMT chrisblinn_kci 2024-11-20T21:22:55Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/feature-selection-to-layer-view/idi-p/1549603 <P>You're in ArcGIS Pro.&nbsp; You're working with a hosted feature service with a lot of complex features, for example Tax Parcels.&nbsp; You make some intricate selections based on attributes and spatial filters, including some manual lasso selections.&nbsp;</P> <UL> <LI>You create a layer from your selection.&nbsp;</LI> <LI>Symbolize, update labels, set rendering scales.</LI> </UL> <P>All is well in the world.</P> <P>But how do I share that with a colleague?</P> <P>Oh, I'll just save the map and publish.</P> <P><EM>ArcGIS Pro:&nbsp;<STRONG>I'm sorry, Hal.&nbsp; I cannot do that (current web layer changes will be lost - selections not supported).</STRONG></EM></P> <P>Maybe I should just publish a new service.</P> <P><EM>Logic:</EM>&nbsp;<EM><STRONG>But then I have to manage the same data twice - I just want one Tax Parcel service.</STRONG></EM></P> <P>Well, there is no easy way to make this a view because the tools to make views are limited to attribute and multiple, different spatial filters including areas of manual selection.&nbsp; It's so much easier to do this in ArcGIS Pro.&nbsp; Oh well, time to do some hand crunching.</P> <P>But, what if you didn't have to? What if all that work on selecting your features could be preserved by creating a hosted layer view using the selection parameters? The selection criteria definition could be passed to the hosting portal to create a hosted view of the parent layer and the new hosted layer view item would be shareable, and no extra copy of data would be required.</P> <P>I dream of such a day, as I stare at the near 10,000 tax parcels I have selected using multiple methods, and now I need to recreate in a hosted layer view... by hand... again.</P> Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:22:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/feature-selection-to-layer-view/idi-p/1549603 chrisblinn_kci 2024-11-20T21:22:55Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/feature-selection-to-layer-view/idc-p/1557672#M32811 <P>DRAT.&nbsp; I'm a new user (one week in) of Pro version 3.3.0.1.<BR />My third map with selected features is beautiful in Pro but all the selections are lost in online map viewer (DRAT again).&nbsp; Also, doesn't appear that bookmarks are shared, either.</P><P>How about with the soon-to-be-fixed PowerBI version? If I repeat the feature selections there, can it be saved?</P> Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:15:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/feature-selection-to-layer-view/idc-p/1557672#M32811 DavidRader 2024-11-12T18:15:49Z