Zoom to location via URL

Question

Hi all,

Following on from my earlier question, I'm trying to work out if it would be possible to zoom to a map location using a URL.

Thanks to @jcarlson I can pass a selected feature via the URL, and next I'm trying to zoom to that feature.

Any pointers gratefully received!

Thanks,

Helen

HelenCooper · Answer

Thanks Josh,

It's very rare for me to be mapping in anything other than British National Grid, so I hear you!

It is a map widget, but I can't see any message actions associated with the map (only the associated list). I'll keep exploring, it might be that I can get the list to be the 'thing' that's selected when I first load the page, and then use that to trigger a message action to zoom the map...

I've also just experimented with having the map zoomed to a custom location within the settings, so it stays at that zoom level but moves around when it first loads... it kind of works but is a little clunky!

It's getting late here so I'll pick this up again tomorrow.

Thanks again for all your help, really appreciated.

Helen

jcarlson · Answer

Kudos on using the Dymaxion projection! I rarely work at scales where "fun" projections even matter.

But to your issue: if the map is a Map Widget in EB, there's a way to set up a Message Action. But this only works with widgets that allow record selection, like a list or table.

HelenCooper · Answer

Thanks Josh,

I'm trying to get it to work with a map within EB - I've put a rough example together here:

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/95e2ca6befde4ae4809f7b9b7da70f1a/

So if you click the 'URL with attributes' button, it will load a page with a map and select a feature on the map, but I can't seem to get it to zoom in to the selected feature automatically.