Any way to avoid full map rebuilds all the time?

[DougBrowning]

It is getting to be more and more work to have to rebuild the maps all the time.  Looking for any way to avoid this?

Simple one today.  I Enabled attachments on a layer that is in an existing map.  It will not honor that change unless I readd the layer to the map.  Which means I then have to completely rebuild from scratch all my arcade, all my popups, all my config attributes, labels, rename etc.  And I have to do this for all layers in that feature service!  This can take hours on some of my big maps.

I keep notepad docs so I can at least copy and paste it but it is getting really tiring to have to rebuild the maps all the time.

Anyone ever find a way around this?  Any thought to having a way to refresh a layer without an add?   This happens with relationships classes and some other things in ArcMap also.

thanks

[MiaogengZhang]

Have you tried to open the webmap again without changing webmap itself and click save?  

[DougBrowning]

Yes I\we have tried that.  We have been dealing with this for years actually.  If you add a field, relationship class, attachments, change alias, change display name, you name it you must readd the layer to the map and use it.  Even if you add the layer a second time, then remove the new and keep the old that still does not work.  It simply will not pick up any changes without a readd.

thanks