topic Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups in ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor Questions

Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

PaulLomas — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 17:44:18 GMT

I am trying to enable simple pop-ups on a vector tile I shared to AGOL from ArcGIS Pro. I have selected the “highlight” fields for OBJECTID and 2 other fields I want in the popup but once I upload it to AGOL and add tile layer to a web map the pop option still isn’t present. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!!

Paul

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

AdamEversole1 — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:51:50 GMT

Hi Paul,

You aren't doing anything wrong, Popups on Vector tile are not supported in the ArcGIS online map viewer yet. It will be coming soon, Here are some discussions regarding this support:

- Vector Tile Popups
- Can you have attributes display for Vector Tiles?

As the ArcGIS Pro documentation suggests under Retain Relevant Attribution

"To bring specific fields into the vector tiles, highlight them in the Fields view of the layer. Highlighting the ObjectID field adds feature-level identity to the vector tiles and allows for pop-ups to be viewed from the tiles themselves"

We have a recent enhancement that has asked for the Pro Documentation to note the online support until its functionality arrives.

That record is ENH-000119818.

Please feel free to contact support to have your account attached to the record.

Hope this helps

-Adam

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

AaronBarkhurst1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:54:07 GMT

Has there been any progress on this? I am having a REALLY hard time finding information on how to implement this and get it working using ArcGIS API for Javascript. I have been working with Mapbox GL JS and vector tiles for five or six years now but am working on a different project now that requires the ArcGIS API. I followed the procedure for bringing specific fields into the vector tiles but am unclear on how to access them via the API. Any guidance would be GREATLY appreciated!

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

AdamEversole1 — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 21:12:10 GMT

Hi Aaron

From what I can see, The functionality to allow popups on Vector tile layers in AGOL is in Product plan, See the noted Geonet post and Enhancement as they might apply to your work in the API.
- https://community.esri.com/ideas/13121-web-layer-popups
- https://community.esri.com/thread/175141
- ENH-000095476 - Allow ArcGIS Online to Enable Pop-ups on a Vector Tile package published from ArcGIS Pro.

It might also be helpful to contact our support team and we can attach your account with the noted issue.

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

LancasterGIS — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 22:30:49 GMT

If you are using just the api and not one of the GUI app builders, you can access and decode the tiles directly into json, then use this data for your popup or text element. You can use tilequery for example but there are other methods. If interested let me know and I'll post more details.

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

ChrisLandvogt — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:12:29 GMT

Hi @LancasterGIS - I would be interested to see some more details regarding your use of tilequery to achieve this functionality, if you're still willing to share it with our user community.

Regards,

Chris

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

LancasterGIS — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 11:48:54 GMT

You can see a live example here with the link below.

https://map-compare.apps.zerospatial.com/?map=esri-v4

I am using tilequery to power the info window. It is very simple - the only catch is that you have to use flat tiles. I'm sure it could be modified to use the Esri indexed tiles by zooming "up" a level if no tile is found, maybe with a max "zoom out" of 3 or so. Also, the resulting geojson is going to be simplified, so using this to extract the actual geometry is not the best idea.

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

LancasterGIS — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 11:49:51 GMT

async function getData(point, tiles) {
  const geojson = await tilequery({
    point: point,
    radius: 10,
    units: 'feet',
    tiles: 'https://map-compare.apps.zerospatial.com/tiles/fairfield/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt',
    layer: 'fairfield', 
    zoom: 15,
    buffer: false,
    pointInPolygon: true
  });
  return (geojson.features.length) ? geojson.features[0] : false
}

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

ChrisLandvogt — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 23:55:55 GMT

@LancasterGIS Thank you very much. The live example is great - well done.

Regards,

Chris

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

JhonEricAuntaDuarte — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 19:49:04 GMT

I was trying to follow the examples showed in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jH4wL6d6g

I have a web map which is used by an custom app with many users. That map has a many layers (parcels, blocks, boundaries, etc) and it has enable pop-ups.

Due to perfomance issues we want to use vector-tiles but we do not want to lose the option of pop-ups, in the video (minute 40:00) the instructors talk about referenced vector tile layers.

I did the process of creating a vector tile from data in a oracle enterprise GDB and it is not possible to anable the pop-ups from the vector tile. However, I see an option in the portal item that I am not sure how it works

when I go to the option I see the layer's attributes , and when I select the attributes and try rebuild cache, the following error appears

Is not possible to have pop-ups from vector-tiles yet?

By the way, the solution that I have for now is to use the vector tile and map image layer(invisible) at the same time, in that way we have pop-ups available.

Thanks in advance,

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

WillWoodroof — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:36:02 GMT

Hello @AdamEversole1

Are simple pop-ups now possible in AGOL Map Viewer? I am using ArcGIS Pro 3.0 to publish Vector Tiles but I am not able to view pop-ups on my layers from the map from Pro once published to AGOL. I am trying to follow these directions https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/map-authoring/author-a-map-for-vector-tile-creation.htm#GUID-3A2EEC7F-6993-4956-8D92-2C676B8A81C5

Am I looking at the right directions? I checked the "Highlight" option from the Fields Design View in Pro before publishing. Anything else I need to be doing to get this to work?

Thanks,

Will

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

AdamEversoleAGOL — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 18:26:32 GMT

Hello Will,

As of today, the enhancements listed for this functionality (The ones referenced in this thread) are still noted as in product plan, and have yet to be implemented.

You can always check in with Esri Support to see the status of any enhancements or defects.

Hope this helps some.
Adam

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

WillWoodroof — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 18:31:41 GMT

Thanks for the quick response, @AdamEversoleAGOL . What is the "Simple Pop Ups" as mentioned in this thread?

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/services/use-vector-tiled-layers.htm

Re: Vector Tile Layer Pop-ups

AdamEversole1 — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:47:59 GMT

Hi @WillWoodroof,

Apologies for any confusion, let me clarify. If we are following the "Simple Pop Ups" workflow, we will be required to check the "Highlighted" fields from the "fields view" then "Save".

With the map configured this way, both the resulting Vector tile layer (.vtpk) and/or Published Vector Tile Service Layers, will allow for the popups to be enabled in ArcGIS Pro.

We are still looking forward to the ability to do this in the web-based Map Viewers in the future.