Can't change legend in Basic Viewer
I used Basic Viewer for my app, and noticed that the I can't change Legend name.
The line in bold is the service name when I publish a service using ArcServer,
the second line "Malawi Deforestation Degradation Hotspots" is the layer name of my original map.
How can I turn off one any one of them?
This has always been something that has bothered me as in most cases you don't need what appears to the user to be two layer names. It usually looks cleaner having just one heading. For years I have simply removed the field name heading in the mxd which is driving the map symbology. Simply click in the highlighted text rename or remove all together. Not the best example, but in this case you can remove "Diameter" then publish as only "Gravity Main" then your symbology nested below it.
If you get a refreshed TOC view or close and reopen your mxd you will still have the symbology, however it won't list the field name in the heading. Your symbology will be directly below your one and only layer name.
This would carry over into ArcGIS Online with no issues...until now (lovely). Just in the last few months this appears to no longer be working. Every time I bring a hosted feature service into ArcGIS Online it prompts me for symbology setup. Even if I click "cancel" it still seems to automatically list the field name in my layer heading that my symbology is based upon which is not what I want. In a lot of cases the field names aren't intuitive or clean looking to non-GIS users (ex. underscores, abbreviations, etc.)
I haven't done extensive testing, but Pro doesn't seem to even allow you to delete the field name from the layer heading at all. Regardless, the results are the same in ArcGIS Online. I have layers I published back in August which don't prompt me with the above screen when I pull them into a map, they simply accept the symbology and layer names as it which is what I want. I am guessing this is tied to a recent ArcGIS Online update.
Hey Jared,
Are you looking to change the Layer Name in the Legend or Alias's for the field name?
You will be prompted to set up your symbology if it hasn't been saved on initial load of the web map, once it's set in the web map, you won't be prompted further. Is the title you desire Gravity Main? If so, go ahead and select Done for the change style option and then select the rename option to change the title of the layer. This will be reflected in the Legend of the web map:
-Kelly
Hi Kelly,
I wasn't trying to rename the layer itself, though often times I do, in this case I was trying to remove the sub layer name which is the field name driving the map symbology. Not the best example as this one is pretty straightforward, but in this case removing "Diameter" all together:
In the past, say even a few months ago, I could remove this in the mxd then publish and the layer structure would look the same when pulled into AGOL which is what I wanted. Now it seems to behave where no matter what ArcGIS Online detects and adds my field name back into the structure of the layer in the TOC and legend which is not ideal. Often times the field names in GIS aren't intuitive to non-GIS users or are redundant like in the original poster's example. In that case I would want to remove the field name heading as it is already stated in the main layer name.
After my previous post I did notice that after configuring my pop-ups and changing the text for the field name (the one driving the map symbology) it also changed in my TOC and legend. I haven't noticed that before, but at least that would be a way to clean up the field name heading (e.g. replace underscores with spaces). I think it would still be useful to fully remove reference to the field name heading when desired.
Jared