topic Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text? in ArcGIS Dashboards Questions

Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

LM16 — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:14:23 GMT

I'm working on a dashboard that contains two map views with linked extents and a category selector for each map so that when a year is selected only that year's data display in the corresponding map. I would like to be able to use the selection made in the category selector as dynamic text for an indicator, so that if the year 1999 is selected for Map 1, the indicator shows that year next to the value. Right now it's just displaying "Map 1: {value}" and "Map 2: {reference}". Can this be done in the advanced formatting options using Arcade? Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

jcarlson — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:26:28 GMT

Anything that performs actions can act on the value and reference of an indicator separately. If you configure your category selector accordingly, you can tell it to filter the value only, leaving the reference alone.

Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

LM16 — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:46:14 GMT

Thanks for your reply, but I was asking about the ability to change additional text in the indicator, aside from the value and reference. In the example I gave above, rather than have "Map1: {value}" displayed, I would like to show "1999: {value}", but having the year that's displayed be dependent on the selection made in the category selector.

Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

jcarlson — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:51:21 GMT

Oh, I see! So you effectively have an indicator with two values, then, one of them being the year, the other being the "{value}".

Can you elaborate on what the data looks like? What is the "value"? Is it being aggregated? And if so, how?

This still sounds like something doable in a Data Expression (not simply with Advanced Formatting), but will depend a lot on how the data's coming in, and what you want it to look like.

Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

LM16 — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:58:26 GMT

The data are coming from a hosted feature layer which contains the Year field (integer) used by the category selector and the Acres field (also integer) which is the {value} or {reference} used by the indicator. This hosted feature layer is part of a web map which was used as the basis for the dashboard.

I'm not sure if this will help, but below is a screen grab of the existing expression used by the indicator. The Map 1 and Map 2 in the middleText and bottomText in the IF statement is where I would like to reference the year selected in the category selectors.

I hope that makes sense and answers your question!

Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

jcarlson — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:17:32 GMT

I can see where you were going with it, but unfortunately this doesn't expose any additional attributes for a Selector to act on. But there's a way, using Data Expressions!

The reason I asked if your value was being aggregated is because we'll probably need to aggregate the data in our expression, rather than letting the Indicator handle it.

So, just to be clear: if I looked at your indicator, what is it actually showing me? Is the value the sum of all "sum_Acres" in the whole layer? And is the reference the un-filtered sum? Or are they looking at specific features / subsets of features?

Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

SimonSchütte_ct — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 17:18:58 GMT

With the latest (Dec. 2021 version) of ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1 it s possible to define Text values for indicators using Advanced formatting:
Data options value type: Feature and Indicator options: Advanced formatting TopText: $datapoint.yourtextfield,

https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/dashboards/latest/create-and-share/advanced-formatting.htm

Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

MundellEarth — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:48:58 GMT

@SimonSchütte_ct - could you elaborate on this? I can't see how one would pull in the value used in the indicator.

Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

SimonSchütte_ct — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:05:24 GMT

@MundellEarthThis only works with the new Dashboard (not the Dashboard Classic).
Select the following: "Data" -> "Value Type:Feature", "Indicator" -> enable "Advanced Formatting":

This is great to combine with a Filter.

Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

MundellEarth — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 18:00:49 GMT

Ah...I think I see the point but maybe I am missing something as I'm getting an Arcade error.

For instance, my selector is going to determine if the indicator shows the count of businesses with "active" status or "historic" status. In the screenshot, I would be able to pull in this "Status" as it is an attribute of each data point included in the count?

Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

SimonSchütte_ct — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:24:08 GMT

I´d recommend you to take a look at the blog posts here:https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/ops-dashboard/real-time/getting-started-with-arcade-in-arcgis-dashboards/ and https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/ops-dashboard/real-time/pushing-the-limits-of-arcade-in-dashboards/

Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

Michelle_Baragona — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:59 GMT

Have you figured this out? I think I'm trying to do the same thing that you were within my indicator in my dashboard. My use case is as such:

When selected a county from a list of counties, the indicator filters the sum of the acres of the parcels in question for that county. I want it to read "[# of acres] within [SELECTED COUNTY]". I can obviously get the number of acres very easily, but is there a way for the [SELECTED COUNTY] text to change dynamically based on the filter?

Re: Dashboard Indicator with dynamic text?

SimonSchütte_ct — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:47:50 GMT

You can use Formatted Lists as described in the blog posts linked above and filter the content to show only for the selected country and link it with an Indicator.