Modify interactivity settings—ArcGIS Instant Apps

The Interactivity settings in the configuration window include options for specifying tools and capabilities for an app. You can configure the tools needed for exploring and analyzing your map and control how users interact with the data. For example, you can turn on tools that encourage map exploration (such as bookmarks) and provide a scale bar or locator map for context.

Other common examples are as follows:

Basemap toggle—Switches between two basemaps to change the look of the map. By default, you can select from a list of basemaps in your organization’s default basemap group. You can also browse to find basemaps from other sources, such as ArcGIS Living Atlas.
Disable scroll—Prevents the map from zooming when users scroll. Disable scrolling in the map if your app will be used primarily on a mobile device or embedded in a website.
Elevation profile—Generates an elevation profile graph across an input line feature that can be selected in the map or from drawing a single or multisegment line using the tool.
Find current location button—Detects the user's physical location and zooms the map to it. (This option only works over HTTPS.)
Layer list—Displays a list of map layers with options to turn visibility off and on in the map. In some apps (Sidebar, Media Map, and 3D Viewer), this setting also allows showing the layer's attribute table, which includes an option for users to export records as CSV.
Screenshot—Takes a screenshot of the map in the app to export as an image file. Depending on the app, the screenshot can include the map legend and the pop-up for a feature selected in the map or search results.
Search—Finds addresses and locates features in the map. To refine search results, you can add a search source from layers in the map (and by URL), choose specific locators from your organization, and add a custom locator. (To learn more about configuring search, see the Refining search capabilities blog article.)
Sharing—Provides an option to show social sharing buttons and an option to copy a link to share the app. The link includes parameters that preserve the current appearance of the app, such as the map extent, visible layers, and selected features, so users can share what they see.
Swipe tool—Compares multiple layers in the map by revealing differences on either side of the swipe slider as users drag it across the map. (For an example, see the Use swipe in Media Map blog article.)
Time—Animates changes in data over time. The map must be time-enabled to use time features in the app. (For examples, see the blog articles Display time-enabled data in Media Map and Using 3D Viewer to visualize time-enabled data.)

Some settings are dependent on the content you're using in the app. For example, if the default configuration for an app provides a bookmark navigation tool, the map must include bookmarks to use this option in the app. Instant Apps displays messages to inform you when your data doesn't support an app requirement and provides related information in ToolTips to help you determine what's required by a particular setting.

To compare applicable settings across the templates, refer to the following tables, which are grouped by options that explore the data, navigate or search locations, modify the map, and share results. Some settings are implemented differently depending on the purpose and layout of the app template. These exceptions are indicated by a numbered footnote.

Note:

For an alphabetical table that compares the configurable capabilities, see the app tools matrix (PDF). (Beta templates are excluded until the template is out of beta and ready to be used in production apps.)

Explore


Option	Atlas	Exhibit	Insets	Manager	Media Map	Sidebar
Autoplay
Bookmarks or Slides		See note¹	See note¹
Compass	See note⁴
Coordinates		See note²			See note²	See note²
Elevation profile	See note⁴
Floor filter
Full screen
Keyboard shortcuts
Locator map
Magnifier
Measurement
Scalebar	See note⁵
Show table³				See note⁶

¹—Bookmarks from the map can be imported to create slides in Exhibit or inset maps in Insets, but the configuration doesn’t include the option to provide the Bookmarks tool in the app.

²—Include the Measurement tool in the noted apps so users can find and convert coordinates.

³—Include the Layer list option in the noted apps, and turn on the show table setting so users can open the attribute table for specific layers.

⁴—Include the Measure tool in Atlas so users can access the Elevation profile tool.

⁵—Compass and Scalebar are a part of the Atlas app layout and cannot be configured.

⁶—As part of the Manager app layout, the table for a layer is always shown.

Navigate and search


Option	Category Gallery	Exhibit
Current location
Disable scroll		See note¹
Home
Search
Zoom tools	See note²

¹—You can disable scrolling (zooming) per slide in the Exhibit slide configuration settings.

²—When users open maps and scenes in the Category Gallery app, the zoom tools are automatically included and cannot be configured.

Modify


Option	Atlas	Exhibit	Insets	Slider
Attribute filter		See note²	See note⁴
Basemap gallery
Basemap toggle
Daylight	See note⁵
Directions
Editing
Layer effects				See note³
Layer list		See note²	See note⁴
Swipe	See note⁵
Time
Utility network trace
Weather	See note⁵

¹—The 3D Viewer template includes several additional 3D-specific tools, including Daylight, Line of sight, Slice, and Weather.

²—You can configure layer visibility and apply a filter in the Exhibit slide configuration settings. It doesn't include the Layer list or Attribute filter options in the app for end users.

³—The Slider app includes a similar Feature effects setting for choosing how to display features included and excluded by the slider filter.

⁴—You can configure layer visibility and filters for each inset window in the custom layout for Insets; only the predefined layout includes the option to add the Layer list tool in the app for end users.

⁵—Turn on the Map layers (layer list) option for users to be able to use Swipe. Atlas must be in 3D view to use Daylight and Weather.


Option	3D Viewer	Category Gallery	Media Map	Public Notification	Sidebar
Custom URL parameter
Export to CSV	See note¹		See note¹	See note²	See note¹
Export to PDF				See note²
Print³
Screenshot
Sharing		See note⁴

¹—Turn on the Layer list setting in the noted apps and include the option to show the attribute table so users can export to CSV.

²—Exporting data in CSV and PDF format is the goal of the Public Notification app, so these options are part of the app layout and cannot be configured.

³—The Print tool uses the print service associated with your organization to create printable documents with the layouts available in that print service. If an app doesn’t include the Print tool, check for similar options that allow users to print, such as Screenshot and Export to PDF.

⁴—The Category Gallery app includes a Share button so users can share a filtered view of the gallery.

⁵—When the Save configuration option is turned on, Export to PDF, Screenshot, and, if users are signed in, Save Map are available together through the Save option on the toolbar. Turn on the Open map option to allow users to copy a link to any of the maps they have saved in the Atlas app. Social media sharing and embed codes are unavailable for end users but are available from the configuration panel.

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