Can measurement tool graphics be persisted?

DaveSouthern

I have a requirement from the customer to persist measurements made by the measurement tool i.e. have multiple measurement lines on the map simultaneously and be able to save these between sessions.  I checked out the documentation links below but haven't been able to see how this could be done.  It doesn't appear that the measurement tool has a layer associated with it, but maybe I'm missing it.

Is there a way to do what I'm thinking about - even if I have to kludge my way into it somehow?

ThomasSolow

My guess would be that you can listen to the 'measure-end' event on the dijit, which will give you access to the result of the measurement and a geometry.

From here, you could take that geometry and create your own graphic from it.  You could use the measurement result (also from the measure-end event) as an attribute on that graphic.  This graphic can then be added to a feature layer (probably a polyline feature layer) in order to persist it.  You can add a label class to the feature service backing up that feature layer that looks at the attribute that represents the measurement result and applies it as a label.