Labeling polygons with a function using LabelClass?

ZoeZaloudek — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 12:30:33 GMT

I have a feature layer of polygons in my map (I'm using version 3.16). I have fields in this layer that I want to use to label the polygons. I have been able to use LabelClass and labelExpressionInfo to simply label the polygons with values from individual fields. Now I want to take it a step further. Is it possible to use a function to label my polygons with the result of subtracting one field’s values from another?

For example, I have two fields named JanTemp and JanNormTemp. One polygon has a JanTemp value of 27.9 and a JanNormTemp of 29.4. I’m trying to symbolize and label the polygons with the departure from Norm value, which in this case would be -1.5. I don’t want to just add a new field to the polygons and calculate the departures… I’m trying to have this figure itself out programmatically.

I was able to get the ClassBreaksRenderer to do this. Here is the function I defined first:

// Function for renderer
rendfunc = function(value)  {
      var attr = value.attributes;
      var start = attr[field1];
      var minus = attr[field2];
      return (start-minus);
}

And then here is the line I used to create the CBR:

// Set up renderer
var flyrRenderer = new CBRenderer(null, rendfunc);

So far I have unsuccessful with my attempts at labeling the polygons in a similar fashion. Has anyone else done this?

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Labeling polygons with a function using LabelClass?