https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-web-appbuilder-questions/select-features-from-invisible-layer-and-zoom-to/m-p/1140947#M21899 <P>I'm running into some issues trying to customize the Search widget.&nbsp; The use case is as follows.</P><OL><LI>Refresh the app and open it to the initial extent.</LI><LI>Have layers that are not visible at the initial extent.</LI><LI>Select features from the invisible layers.</LI><LI>Zoom to the selected features.</LI></OL><P>It appears that what is happening is that when you zoom to the selected features, it causes the hidden layers to draw for the first time.&nbsp; This calls resume on the layers, which appears to clear any selections on the layer if it is the first time resume has been called.&nbsp; This basically clears out the selection from step 3.&nbsp; I found similar behavior in the Attribute Table widget.&nbsp; If you double-click on a feature that is not visible, it will zoom to it.&nbsp; If it is the first time that the given layer has been displayed, the zoom ends up clearing the selection.&nbsp; You can see it in how the blue color in the row disappears.&nbsp; If you double-click it again, the blue color stays.&nbsp; The issue is the same with my Search widget.&nbsp; It is only an issue the first time the layer is displayed.&nbsp; After that, it works correctly.<BR /><BR />Any ideas?</P> Fri, 04 Feb 2022 21:36:07 GMT NathanHeickLACSD 2022-02-04T21:36:07Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-web-appbuilder-questions/select-features-from-invisible-layer-and-zoom-to/m-p/1140947#M21899 <P>I'm running into some issues trying to customize the Search widget.&nbsp; The use case is as follows.</P><OL><LI>Refresh the app and open it to the initial extent.</LI><LI>Have layers that are not visible at the initial extent.</LI><LI>Select features from the invisible layers.</LI><LI>Zoom to the selected features.</LI></OL><P>It appears that what is happening is that when you zoom to the selected features, it causes the hidden layers to draw for the first time.&nbsp; This calls resume on the layers, which appears to clear any selections on the layer if it is the first time resume has been called.&nbsp; This basically clears out the selection from step 3.&nbsp; I found similar behavior in the Attribute Table widget.&nbsp; If you double-click on a feature that is not visible, it will zoom to it.&nbsp; If it is the first time that the given layer has been displayed, the zoom ends up clearing the selection.&nbsp; You can see it in how the blue color in the row disappears.&nbsp; If you double-click it again, the blue color stays.&nbsp; The issue is the same with my Search widget.&nbsp; It is only an issue the first time the layer is displayed.&nbsp; After that, it works correctly.<BR /><BR />Any ideas?</P> Fri, 04 Feb 2022 21:36:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-web-appbuilder-questions/select-features-from-invisible-layer-and-zoom-to/m-p/1140947#M21899 NathanHeickLACSD 2022-02-04T21:36:07Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-web-appbuilder-questions/select-features-from-invisible-layer-and-zoom-to/m-p/1142474#M21914 <P>Eventually, I decided that the best solution was just to host the JS 3.x API internally and remove the offending call to clearSelection.&nbsp; That fixed the issue.&nbsp; I still don't know why there is a need to clear a layer the first time it is drawn.</P> Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:17:33 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-web-appbuilder-questions/select-features-from-invisible-layer-and-zoom-to/m-p/1142474#M21914 NathanHeickLACSD 2022-02-10T00:17:33Z