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Using "Current Location" by default in Directions widget (4x)

ZA1 — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:13:36 GMT

Hello,

Using the Directions widget I would like to:

Use Current Location as starting point by default
Auto-populate destination with some address

i.e.:

Unfortunately, I have not found properties in the documentation to do this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Re: Using "Current Location" by default in Directions widget (4x)

Noah-Sager — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:45:29 GMT

Hi @ZA1, unfortunately it is not currently possible to pre-populate the Directions widget with two different addresses or locations. However, we have some enhancements coming that might make this possible at a future release.

If you don't need the Directions widget, you could handle the routing and the turn-by-turn directions yourself using route: https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/api-reference/esri-rest-route.html

Re: Using "Current Location" by default in Directions widget (4x)

ZA1 — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 06:38:59 GMT

Hi @Noah-Sager . Once again, thanks for the info, much appreciated! 🙂

Am I right in thinking that pre-population of fields in JSAPI 4 is generally an issue?

Previously I struggled to find a way to automatically populate fields in the Create Workflow of the Editor widget. (link to post)