Print8.1.6 Legend
We saw the Legend widget used earlier in the course. Basic implementation of this widget is simple, only requiring you to specify the View containing the layers you’d like listed in the legend. By default, the widget will display an entry for each layer in the view, though this can be overridden. Here are a couple of examples, built on the UniqueValueRenderer example from Lesson 5:
Uncustomized legend
See the Pen Uncustomized Legend Demo by Jim Detwiler (@jimdetwiler) on CodePen.
Customized legend
See the Pen Legend Demo by Jim Detwiler (@jimdetwiler) on CodePen.
In the first example, the Legend has only its view property set. Note that each of the two layers displayed on the map are included in the legend and that the labels for each legend entry are taken from the layer source’s name.
In the second example, the layerInfos property is used to customize the legend a bit. Only one object is defined in the layerInfos array, for the cities layer, so the counties layer is not added to the legend. A more user-friendly title is also applied to the cities layer.
Esri’s Legend widget sample demonstrates a similar customization of a layer’s title. One thing I want to call your attention to is in how the reference to the layer is obtained. The layer is actually the first layer in a web map and is retrieved using the expression webmap.layers.getItemAt(0).