Allow Filtering by 'Category' within the 'Add Layer' Widget
Currently, you generally need to know what you are looking for to search the 'Add Layer' widget. It would be useful if you could filter by Portal for ArcGIS 'Category' which, if setup correctly, could allow users to explore content in a manner similar to the layer catalog in Geocortex Essentials.
The complaint from some of our users is, 'I have to know what I am looking for to use search, I just want to explore available layers in the viewer'.
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Hi Justin ... what version of Web are you running? The 5.20 release included some improved filtering tools including tags and admin-defined categories. This isn't the same a 'browsing a list' of layers which is more what I think you are after, but is about as far as we could take it while working with Esri's interface without creating a new (redundant) configuration structure that is a list of portal items.
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We are currently running the 5.20 release. ‘Browse a list’ I think gets at what I was suggesting. ‘Browse a hierarchy’ might be more accurate. Giving users the ability to drill-down to what they were looking for even if they didn’t know exactly what they were looking for. In our Essentials viewers we did this using a ‘Layer Catalog’ and organizing content into folders and sub-folders. In ArcGIS Enterprise we use multiple levels of Categories to Filter in a similar, folder like, fashion.
I noticed that the ‘Filters’ list provided within Webs ‘Add Layer’ widget had almost identical categories as ArcGIS Enterprise’s ‘Filters’ list, with a few exceptions, notably the ‘Categories’ filter. My hope in asking was that it might be an easy addition to enable. If nothing else, I have an answer for users who have been asking.
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Interesting, that categories stuff is quite recent, I'll have to have a closer look.
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Any progress on this? Our future plans probably include adding an increasing number of layers as portal items to be called by Add Layer. Being able to organise that more akin to the Layer Catalogue via Categories would be extremely useful.
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