topic Changing the default units of the measurement widget? in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Changing the default units of the measurement widget?

IanPeebles — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:03:23 GMT

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.

Re: Changing the default units of the measurement widget?

JoshVan_Kylen — Wed, 20 May 2015 18:27:19 GMT

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();

Re: Changing the default units of the measurement widget?

RickeyFight — Wed, 20 May 2015 18:48:57 GMT

Ian,

Look here for more documentation:

Measurement | API Reference | ArcGIS API for JavaScript

Re: Changing the default units of the measurement widget?

JoshVan_Kylen — Thu, 28 May 2015 17:03:35 GMT

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.