Where is Map View Classic? Is this still available? The button I usually click to work in that view is not showing up. I

[BruceRose]

I have developed lessons (teach Grade 9 Earth Sci.) with PowerPoints using Map View Classic. Will have do redo etc. if that is not available. Please respond to 

bfrose@k12.wv.us 

or brucefrose@yahoo.com

Thanks!

[DanPatterson]

Deprecation: Map Viewer Classic Deprecation

would be a good place to start to prepare

[BlakeMorrison]

There is some functionality that is only available in Map Viewer Classic still.

[DebapriyaPaul]

Would be happy to learn about any workflows that you currently use Map Viewer Classic for.  

[BlakeMorrison]

Creating feature templates is not available anywhere other than Map Viewer Classic. I can manage templates in Field Map Designer, but not create them.

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/manage-data/manage-feature-templates.htm

[DebapriyaPaul]

This will soon be available in Map Viewer, in the upcoming February release! 

[BlakeMorrison]

FYI, Even with this new Map Viewer update, there is not feature parity. The new template editor does not offer the ability to create a template. I can only duplicate. I recently had a situation where a Feature Service somehow broke and all the templates disappeared. Duplication was thus not an option and I had to revert to Map Viewer Classic to create templates from scratch.

I contacted tech support at the time but the feature service was in production and needed to be fixed immediately so tech support were not able to help in anyway.

[DebapriyaPaul]

Glad to hear that the feature service is up and running now, and thanks for sharing your feedback. 

With Templates now being available with the February release, a way to Create templates is definitely on our future roadmap.

[BlakeMorrison]

I don't mean to be rude, but I want to express my dissatisfaction with this response. In my initial reply I explained a feature that wasn't available. You didn't comprehend what I was saying and told me it was in the February release. Now you've said it's in the future roadmap. But I'm not actually sure if you've achieved comprehension of my request as your response doesn't acknowledge the mistake or the previous interaction.

Further, could you please clarify whether feature parity will be achieved prior to deprecation. The roadmaps so far show that it will not.

It feels like gas lighting. This response. The roadmap/deprecation situation. ESRI keep saying the missing features are coming, then they put them in another app rather than the replacement for the deprecated app. Or they just don't come at all.

[DebapriyaPaul]

@BlakeMorrison I appreciate the feedback about how Duplicate was not a workflow you could have used to create templates when they were dropped from the feature service. This could have been an edge case, and I realize this was an inconvenient scenario. If the issue resurfaces, we are happy to investigate further. 

We are actively planning to bridge any gaps in functionality between Map Viewer and Map Viewer Classic and they will be addressed before the deprecation in Q1, 2026.