Show pop-up for unrelated feature in map WITHOUT clearing selection in list widget?

[MollyMoore]

I have an Experience Builder application where the user can make a selection from a list and that will zoom in to the feature on the map and populate some other panels with information and allow the user to make edits in the Edit widget.

There are a few different layers in the map that enable a user to view info in the pop-up just for additional context, but are unrelated to the layer that populates the info and edit widgets. When a user clicks on a feature from a different layer on the map, it clears the selection in the list and the info in various widgets clears until the user clicks on the list item again. Is there a way to disable this feature and allow the user to maintain the selection in the list AND view a pop-up from feature in a different layer? I couldn't figure anything out or find anything online about this.

[NicoleJohnson]

One option is to have one instance of your data for the map, and another for your non-map stuff, but there's one aspect I haven't found a way around (more on that in a second).

For example, I've added the ACS Population layer and the USA Current Wildfires layer from Living Atlas to a map. In Experience Builder, I've gone to "Add Data" and added the map twice.

In a map widget, I've added one instance of the data. For a list widget and a chart widget, I've added data from the other instance (I have the chart widget pointed to the selected features data view though, so it's blank until a selection is made because I haven't set up the no-selected-features view). I then set an action on the list (trigger is data instance 2) to zoom to the same feature in the map (action data is instance 1) based on the objectID.

This seems to do most of what you want: I can select from the list and it persists (yellow highlighting) even if I select in the map, BUT...

... when I click in the map on a wildfire, the US state selection in the map goes away:

Still, this is an option if you don't absolutely need the selected feature from the list to stay selected in the map. I'm not sure there's a way around that (you can see the "1 of 2" items in the pop-up, meaning that there's still a selection there, but you have to cycle through the items).