Yeah, I am working with data that is being shared via a group from a person who isnt  in my org. ( we struggled trying to use the collaboration setting in organization settings) I don't have editing access to this data, and get an error when I try to import the api as not having access to that data. so it seems like in order to use the layer I have to do so in ArcGIS Online  for the dashboard and am limited to the filter options.