Changing the default units of the measurement widget?

Question

I have a measurement widget within my application.  When measuring, the default is set as Miles.  Can I change the default units to Feet?  Also, the default for measuring areas is set to Acres. . I need to default to Sq Feet.

Thanks.

JoshVan_Kylen · Answer

What I found unclear about this Measurement | API Reference | ArcGIS API for JavaScript documentation is that it references this Object: Units page, but when I used just "FEET" & "SQUARE_FEET" in the Measurement's parameters I get errors.  Hunting around I found the reference to set the parameter values to esriFeet & esriSquareFeet in the

Web AppBuilder's API reference for the Measurement widget.

RickeyFight · Answer

Ian,

Look here for more documentation:

Measurement | API Reference | ArcGIS API for JavaScript

JoshVan_Kylen · Answer

Set the defaultLengthUnit to esriFeet and the defaultAreaUnit to esriSquareFeet.

Example:

measurement = new Measurement({

map: map, defaultLengthUnit: "esriFeet", defaultAreaUnit: "esriSquareFeet"

}, dom.byId('measurementDiv'));

measurement.startup();