Add Layers pre-configured filter options
When running the command "Add layers from an Esri Portal", it would be nice if there was an option such as limiting what layers can be added based on Group or Tag filters. I know that can be done when applying a filter, however, I would like to pre-configure the Filters option so that I can control exactly which layers from the portal can be added. Our org doesn't do the best job organizing datasets so I would like to curate the list of available data to add, while only allowing datasets which are up-to-date, clean and authoritative.
In short, I'd like the option to pre-configure the filter settings on the Add Layers dialog, and take away the option to filter from the end user.
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Hey Matt,
If I'm interpreting correctly, I think this feature already exists as a service setting.
You can add specific tags to limit search on "Add Layer" via the Portal service in the service tab in designer.
Cheers,
Nick
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Thanks Nick, this is exactly what I'm looking for!
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Someone beat me to it ... yes. You can limit the entirety of what shows up in the portal item picker by restricting it to certain tags. You then can go through and tag your authoritative data to ensure the cruft doesn't show up. As a best practice I'd suggest putting a unique organizational tag at the start so that you don't accidentally choose a tag that someone else has.
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Hi. This is nice! It would be great if we could also configure default settings for source. Meaning 'My Content' vs 'Organizational Content', etc. The behavior I'm seeing is that the interface defaults to 'My Content' and most of our end users won't have much if any content of their own. I'd prefer to configure it so that Organizational content would be the default.
Thanks
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I also vote for making 'Organizational Content' instead of 'My Content' as the default source. It would be nice if "Add layers from an Esri Portal" command provide an option to specify the default source to use.
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There is a story in progress to allow the default source to be set by the application creator ... in addition to being polite and remembering what you last did.
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That's a great news. Thank you Cam for the update!
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Yes, good to hear. Thanks.
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I also vote for making 'Organizational Content' instead of 'My Content' the default source.
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Great to hear, that this is in progress as it would be very valuable
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Any update or timeline? Also interested in this ability.
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This is in peer review now, ready to move into QA, so very likely you'll see this in 5.30 in the June 2024 timeframe.
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Bart Middelburg
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That's great news! Lots of users in the Netherlands would love to have this functionality.
Last week I also discussed the use of tags to limited or even restrict the layers/items that can be added within Web with a customer. Their feedback was that they have quite a large group of creators within their Portal to enhance their self-service GIS. These people do have the ability to create new layers on their own. The customer was afraid that when this group of people know which tags are used in a specific webviewer they will start add this tag to be available within Web for the whole organisation (when correctly shared).
To my knowledge this is indeed correct and you can discuss if this should be solved within the guidelines of use of Portal in a organisation. An other option could be that web would be able to limit the items to be added within web using a tags and authoritative label. As this authoritative label can only be given bij administrators. In this way you could make sure that specific webviewers only show ‘authoritative’ data.
Is this something foreseen in this functionality? Or is my knowledge about the tags not correct?
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It seems like another approach would have been to use groups instead of tags, such that all authoritative content was put into a group by the administrator, and no one else would have permission to add content to that group. Is this a possibility?
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Heather Widlund, this would be an good alternative for sure. But for this to work you should be able to filter content on groups and not specific tags within Web? In the current state (5.29) this is not possible yet, if I'm not mistaken.
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Great news. We are finishing our transition away from GeoCortex and the lack of the Catalog is an issue for the more non-GIS types. Looking forward to this.
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