Let me start that I really appreciate the new filter option in FieldMaps Designer. But it would amazing if multiple layers can be group filtered based on a common attribute/value. Just like the group filter in WAB and EXP. @JeffShaner🙂
Thank you so much @JeffShaner for your quick response !! I appreciate it.
During fielding, we have 10-15 layers that have an attribute of CircuitID, our field crew have to go to each layer and filter based on that Circuit ID, to only see the assets that have been collected for that circuit. this helps them visually and organize their efforts per circuit.
The current filter option is doing the job right now. But it would be way more efficient and easier for the user to simply filter all of these layers based on that common attribute to create that quick dynamic view of that circuit assets.
I know that someone might say, well create separate maps and put a CircuitID filter within the web-map to customize the view . We thought about that but you can just think about the effort of trying to maintain/ manage 10-15 maps per fielding effort and if a change happens to one, we need to do it 15 times.
I can see the value in this, especially for utilities. There are similar requests asking for filtering of group layers in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro:
Being able to filter all layers in a group within Field Maps would be useful for us as well. We often have web maps with several data collection template layers (e.g. general points, general lines, general polygons, JD points, JD lines, JD polygons, rare plant points, rare plant polygons, etc.) that all ave a ProjectID field, and sometimes projects overlap spatially.
I suggested a similar idea at the Developer Summit for the Attachment Viewer Instant App, where we display attachments from all these template layers and users often need to filter multiple layers to see only the features from the project they're interested in. I can also see this being a time saver in Pro.
Yes I do think it is fair to assume that this is a functionality that needs to be across the products. Layers almost always need to be grouped and displayed by a clause. In Exp and WAB this was solved using their Group Filter widgets. I think it would be nice to have that live at the WEB MAP level to cascade across.
@HollyTorpey_LSA Thank you for your input ! I do agree that it would be really useful inside the Attachment viewer !
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