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ArcGIS Online tip of the week: Group layers as items + Living Atlas content

BernSzukalski

Group layers are a way to organize layers in your maps, by common geography, topics and themes, scales, for blending and effects, and more. Saving group layers as items was introduced with the October 2023 ArcGIS Online update and IMHO is a powerful and very welcome capability.

Use group layers to organize related layers in your map, optionally set exclusive visibility (showing only one specific layer without having to hide each of the other layers), then save group layers as items enabling reuse across your organization’s web maps or sharing outside your organization.

This blog article provides an overview: https://lnkd.in/dVFhJPDf

Living Atlas now also supports group layers, search the rapidly growing collection: https://lnkd.in/dtDyX9ZA

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TimLohnes1

Thanks, Bern.

Group Layers are great, especially the exclusive visibility.

However, there is one basic omission on the settings. The group layer needs an option to be expanded at the start. Using a group layer as a workaround to not being able to have only one filter at a time on in XB. The exclusive visibility solves that, but the group layer opens closed, which means we need to expect users to know it is a group layer hiding essentially many map options and they need to open it.

See discussion here.

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-ideas/filter-widget-option-to-allow-only-one-filter-to/idc-p/1406057#M2493

The only option is to write lengthy text on the group layer name instructing people to open, which is a thoroughly ugly solution that I'm currently using. 'Click arrow on left to see map choices'.

I'll submit an idea. This seems like a very small fix (hopefully) and an obvious setting choice to provide a great impact in our work.

Thanks,
Tim

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