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You can use ArcGIS Maps for Fabric to create and explore a wide range of maps in Microsoft Fabric.

Open ArcGIS Maps for Fabric

To open ArcGIS Maps for Fabric, complete the following steps:

  1. Sign in to Microsoft Fabric with your Microsoft Entra ID.

  2. From the Home page, select Workspaces from Fabric’s navigation bar. Click the workspace you want to work in.

  3. Click the + New item button.

    The New item menu appears.

  4. Search for ArcGIS Maps for Fabric in the Filter by item type search box.

  5. Click ArcGIS Maps for Fabric. The New ArcGIS web map window appears.

    Note:

    You can also find ArcGIS Maps for Fabric in the Workloads hub.

  6. Choose a new Name for your map and select a Location to save your ArcGIS web map.

  7. Click Create.

    ArcGIS Maps for Fabric opens within your Fabric window.

Tip:

Confirm that your ArcGIS organizational account user type is Creator or higher and that your user role is Contributor or higher in the Microsoft Fabric workspace where you are working to save changes to the map.

Sign in to ArcGIS

Note:

To access ArcGIS Maps for Fabric, you must have a supported ArcGIS organizational account. By signing in with your ArcGIS organizational account, you can access your ArcGIS Online content as well as your organization's content, basemaps, and ArcGIS Living Atlas layers. You cannot access ArcGIS Maps for Fabric with an ArcGIS Public account.

To sign in to your ArcGIS Online account from ArcGIS Maps for Fabric, follow these steps:

  1. Open ArcGIS Maps for Fabric.

  2. The Sign in to ArcGIS window appears. Click Sign in to ArcGIS.

    A new browser window appears with the sign-in page for your ArcGIS organizational account.

  3. Enter the credentials for your ArcGIS organizational account.

  4. Optionally, check the box next to Keep me signed in.

  5. Click Sign In.

You can sign out of your ArcGIS organizational account from the ribbon menu or from the Map properties pane.

Find and open a saved map

To find and open an existing map in ArcGIS Maps for Fabric, complete the following steps:

  1. Open ArcGIS Maps for Fabric.

  2. On the ribbon menu, click Open map Open map. Your OneLake catalog opens to a page prompting you to Select ArcGIS web map.

  3. Expand the Explorer menu to see a list of workspaces and move between them. The list in the main window updates with all ArcGIS web maps you have access to within that workspace.

  4. Choose the WebMap you want to open. Click Add.

Tip:

You can also open a saved map by browsing to its location in your workspace and selecting the ArcGIS web map file.

To navigate the map, do the following:

  • To zoom, use Zoom in Zoom in and Zoom out Zoom out or use the mouse and wheel button. To zoom in, you can also press the Shift key while dragging a box on the map.

  • To zoom the map to its initial extent, click Default map view Default map view. You can also navigate the map to a predefined extent using a bookmark.

  • To pan, use the mouse or the arrow keys on your keyboard.

  • To rotate a map, right-click while dragging the pointer or use the letter D to rotate the top of the map to the East or the letter A to rotate the top of the map to the West. Click Reset compass orientation Reset compass orientation to return the map view to north or press the letter N on your keyboard.

  • If you are using a Mac with OS X 10.6 or later, you can use multitouch gestures by dragging two fingers to pan and zoom the map. The default behavior is to pan. To zoom in or out, press Shift while dragging two fingers toward you to zoom in or dragging two fingers away from you to zoom out.