topic Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Questions

Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

Mark_ — Fri, 01 May 2015 15:19:31 GMT

Hello everyone. I have several AGOL map layers that were created by paring down larger map services. When I point Web AppBuilder to a web map containing one of these map layers, the created web app displays all of the layers in the source map service rather than reduced number of layers of the AGOL map layer. I hope that makes sense. Am I missing something or is this a shortcoming/designed behavior of Web AppBuilder? Please note, I am not using the developer version. Thanks for the help!

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

JeffWard — Fri, 01 May 2015 16:13:45 GMT

Are they pared down using a query?

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

Mark_ — Fri, 01 May 2015 16:34:49 GMT

Jeff, they are not. I'll elaborate a bit more. I have a map service with layers A through Z. From an AGOL webmap, I remove all the layers except for B, D and F. I then save this BDF layer to AGOL My Content. While AGOL webmaps display only layers B,D and F, the Web AppBuilder app displays layers A-Z of the source map service.

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

TomSellsted — Fri, 01 May 2015 18:58:32 GMT

Mark,

Have you tried flushing your browser cache?

Regards,

Tom

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

Mark_ — Fri, 01 May 2015 19:14:19 GMT

Tom, I have tried clearing the cache. That did not do the trick.

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

TomSellsted — Fri, 01 May 2015 20:09:09 GMT

Mark,

Any chance that you are using a widget that displays your services directly and not from your web map?

Regards,

Tom

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

JeffWard — Fri, 01 May 2015 20:17:53 GMT

Have you tried creating a new map, adding the layer you created from the other map and creating the app from the new map?

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

Mark_ — Fri, 01 May 2015 21:19:22 GMT

I've also tried that, yes.

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

Mark_ — Fri, 01 May 2015 21:32:58 GMT

That certainly appears to be the case. Hopefully someone who knows the inner workings of the widgets and app can tell us definitively. My hope was that the deep integration between Web AppBuilder and AGOL would allow this type of layer configuration to carry over just as popup configurations do.

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

TomSellsted — Fri, 01 May 2015 21:39:54 GMT

Mark,

Is the application published so we can view it and maybe figure out what is going on? or URL for rest service or web map?

Regards,

Tom

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

JENNIFERHIGGS — Fri, 08 May 2015 21:08:43 GMT

I am having the exact same problem, any solution. It is still showing up in the Layer List Widget

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

Mark_ — Mon, 11 May 2015 16:18:25 GMT

I've contacted ESRI Support about this. According to a technical lead, Web AppBuilder referencing the map service rather than the AGOL map layer is the expected behavior. My report was forwarded to the development team to be considered as a future enhancement. I've also created an entry on the ESRI Ideas page. Please upvote it here: ArcGIS Idea - Web AppBuilder respect of removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

JENNIFERHIGGS — Mon, 11 May 2015 17:06:36 GMT

I am not sure why anybody would not want them linked since you spend a lot of time making the web map just how you want it. Does anybody know where we would change this in the code to keep the layer list in sync with the web map?

Re: Web AppBuilder not respecting removed service layers in saved AGOL map layers

Mark_ — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:03:05 GMT

For anyone interested, I recently followed up with ESRI support on this and was glad to hear that release 3.9 will address this issue. This is not the release scheduled for next month (July 2015) but the one following sometime in the fall.