idea Clock widget in ArcGIS Dashboards Ideas

Clock widget

TorbjørnDalløkken2 — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:28:50 GMT

I'd like to see a new and relatively simple widget in ArcGIS Dashboard. It's a analog (or digital) clock. One of my users is going to show the dashboard on a big screen in their office, and wants to see the time.

Re: Clock widget

jcarlson — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:59:52 GMT

This is a little hacky, but you could create an Indicator widget and put this in for the Advanced Formatting expression:

return { topText: 'Current Time', topTextMaxSize: 'medium', middleText: Text(Now(), 'HH:mm') }

Then set the refresh interval to 0.1 minutes, and your indicator will look like this:

Analog would be trickier, but I still wonder if you couldn't mangle a Gauge or two to do it for you with a Data Expression.

Re: Clock widget

jcarlson — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 21:14:20 GMT

You could also embed a clock from elsewhere: https://24timezones.com/clock-widget

Re: Clock widget

jcarlson — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 21:43:38 GMT

You can combine a data expression with some SVG elements to create a clock of your own, too.

Data expression:

var n = Now() var thehour = Hour(Now()) var theminute = Minute(Now()) if (thehour > 12){ thehour -= 12 } var out_dict = { fields: [ {name: 'thehour', type: 'esriFieldTypeInteger'}, {name: 'theminute', type: 'esriFieldTypeInteger'}, {name: 'hourdegrees', type: 'esriFieldTypeDouble'}, {name: 'minutedegrees', type: 'esriFieldTypeDouble'}, {name: 'ampm', type: 'esriFieldTypeString'}], geometryType: '', features: [ {attributes: { thehour: thehour, theminute: theminute, hourdegrees: thehour * 30 + (5 / theminute), minutedegrees: theminute * 6, ampm: Iif(Hour(Now()) > 12, 'PM', 'AM') }}] } return FeatureSet(Text(out_dict))

HTML:

Re: Clock widget

OznurGeze — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:08:53 GMT

It is amazing! Could you do countdown with this too? Is it possible?

Re: Clock widget

jcarlson — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 14:13:55 GMT

@OznurGeze Totally! Assuming you had the "end date" either determined by your data, or just hard-coded into the expression, you could easily adjust this to show a duration, a remaining time, etc.