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Rotating labels

DaveStockdale

I have a point dataset of streets in a housing development, which I overlaid on the world imagery basemap. There is a street name field for labeling. I need to have the north-south street labels oriented vertically, 90 degrees, and the east-west street labels oriented horizontally, 0 degrees. Is there an Arcade expression that will do that? Thank you.

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vg11

pretty sure Esri will never fix this because this is their selling point to use tile layers.

ChelseaRozek

also checking in from the future... nearly 5 years after the original post and i still don't see an option to rotate labels in ArcGIS Online

vg11

checking in from the future..... i guess there still isn't an option to rotate the label but there is an option to rotate the symbol... i don't need to rotate the symbol of a circle! i must rotate and orient the position of the label. i thought AGOL was created to replace ArcReader, why does it lack in soooo many areas.

PeterMacKenzie2

here is an idea to vote for...

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/rotate-labels-for-points-in-arcgis-online/m-p/1215361#M9358

BillLotz

Wow, I am looking at migrating from Enterprise to AGOL, but the limitations in AGOL are a big hurdle. I converted annotation to features since annotation is not supported. Got everything to display in ArcGIS Pro using Arcade. Labels sized and rotated based on field from the old annotation features. Unfortunately none of that stuff is supported in AGOL.

It seems the limitations are almost to great, let me know when the bugs are worked out!

XanderBakker

Hi @Stefan_Thorn ,

Sorry about that, but the alignment options will only be available for point data.

Stefan_Thorn

Hi @XanderBakker,

Thank you for the quick reply! I will look into the arcade matrix and looking forward to the new updates.

But unfortunately, the placement option to align the label is not available when I open Edit Style.

(I am working in a Project Delivery Site and tested in Chrome or Edge)

XanderBakker

Hi @Stefan_Thorn

- the arcade expression is not accepted. So why Arcade in ArcGIS pro is different from AGOL?

- the arcade expression is not accepted.

- labels cannot be aligned anymore?

Unfortunately, there are differences in Arcade versions as you can find in the version matrix: https://developers.arcgis.com/arcade/guide/version-matrix/ . In this case, it is not the version difference, but the fact that the labels in a web map currently do not support these HTML-like capabilities that allow you to change the font of parts of the label. Next week there will be an update and many changes are coming to the map viewer (not the Map Viewer Classic). There are some changes that allow you to edit HTML for the pop-up, but I do not know if this changes something for the font settings that you are using in Pro.
in the Map viewer labels can be aligned already. You will find the placement options when you edit the style:
Not sure if the new version will have label rotation.

Stefan_Thorn

Hi @XanderBakker The rotation of labels is simple in ArcGIS Pro and even with Arcade the appearance can be manipulated but all this effort is useless after publishing to AGOL you left with plain labels.

Publishing to a tile layer is not an option because the dataset contains multiple records. And after publishing to AGOL the hosted feature layer is used in a joined view to visualize a projectplanning with time slider.

In ArcGIS Pro 2.8.3

I show highways and which lanes are closed. With an arcade expression I can give the label multiple colors related to an attribute. And the position of the label is perpendicular repeated and aligned based on the direction of the polyline. I this situation it is important that the polylines have the same direction of the traffic flow.

In ArcGIS Online

Classic Viewer

- the arcade expression in not accepted. So why Arcade in ArcGIS pro is different from AGOL?

- in classic viewer the label can be aligned but very basic: Above, On or Below the polyline

Map Viewer

- the arcade expression in not accepted.

- labels can cannot be aligned anymore?

Stefan_Thorn

Hi @AndyYang,

What you can do to have the labels on top (of all layers). I did something similar with wheel/edges symbols which I published as a map image layer to show certain status on data in related tables.

left: the wheel symbols are only visible when no other features are blocking

right: the wheel symbols are visible

1. vector tile layer: ' Move to the basemap'

2. then, choose 'Set as Reference Layer'

SamJakson

Has there been any update on this yet? Many of my customers request the ability to rotate text created with the drawing widget. Would you be able to provide me with a rough timeframe of when this will be implemented?

AndyYang

Hello @XanderBakker

Thanks for your reply - our use case is just displaying the civil engineering site plan on the web browser.

It does not look very decent if those labels are either not rotated or being blocked by other layers.

XanderBakker

Hi @AndyYang ,

I am sorry to tell you that I have no influence on the order of items on the backlog. I agree that it would be great to be able to rotate labels in the web map. What is your specific use case?

AndyYang

Hi @DavidStockdale

Same here.

I was struggling to get the text rotated.

What I did is to publish text as the vector tile layer so it will rotate as image.

but the serious problem is that they will be blocked by other feature layers on top.

Vector tile layers will be forced to sit at the bottom... so unfortunate

I am hoping Esri can quickly develop a way to resolve this...

AndyYang

Hi @XanderBakker , does ArcGIS online map have rotating label feature now?

I still could not get my annotations rotated even I tried on the new Beta WebMap viewer.

Can ArcGIS somehow develop this feature real quick. It has been lacking this feature for at least one year according to the forum post.

XanderBakker

Hi David Stockdale ,

Currently there is no rotation for labels in the web map of ArcGIS Online. There is an update of the web map that is coming soon, but I haven't seen the label options yet.

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