idea Distance and Direction Widget or Direction Added to Measure Widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

Distance and Direction Widget or Direction Added to Measure Widget

BrettLessner_Nsight — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:16:51 GMT

Distance and Direction widget from WAB needs to be brought over or the ability to display azimuth needs to be added to the existing Measure widget.

Part of our workflow includes measuring the azimuth from one location to another.

This functionality is so common in the GIS field. Please also include in Experience Builder.

Re: Distance and Direction Widget or Direction Added to Measure Widget

SubaKrishnan — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:02:30 GMT

@BrettLessner_Nsight Thank you for your feedback. We currently dont have plans to migrate distance and direction to Exb, but this might change in the future. I can reach out Exb team about adding this measure widget.

Re: Distance and Direction Widget or Direction Added to Measure Widget

BrettLessner_Nsight — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:01:25 GMT

@SubaKrishnan, Thank you for sharing the idea with the Experience Builder team. Being within the measurement tool would be most ideal for us. If that happens, we would be fine without Distance and Direction.

-Brett

Re: Distance and Direction Widget or Direction Added to Measure Widget

ha_hyang — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:36:35 GMT

I support this idea @BrettLessner_Nsight. I'm building a new application using the experience builder. The application is focus on the sea features, such as vessels, etc.

Our measurements of length, area are all in nautical miles.

We also need to measure the bearings from location A to location B. The scale bar is required to display using the nautical miles.

Our environment is in a disconnected environment. I'm planning to upgrade the ArcGIS Enterprise to 11.5. However, the bearings and scale bars are still not available in 11.5.

With the policy to avoid the customisation, i'm replying on the Esri released widget. @SubaKrishnan It is over a year from the last update, any plan changes?

Helen

Re: Distance and Direction Widget or Direction Added to Measure Widget

SubaKrishnan — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:55:20 GMT

@ha_hyang This seem to be a question for Measurement widget and @Jianxia do you have any suggestions for this?

We don't have any update to bring Distance and Direction widget to ExB. I've noted your feedback and will consider this.

Re: Distance and Direction Widget or Direction Added to Measure Widget

KatieWaghorn — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:06:59 GMT

I work in maritime safety and the internal support within my agency for interactive maps is growing steadily. However, the lack of the distance and direction widget in Experience Builder is limiting what we can provide - and we can't go backwards to using the WebApp Builder.

If ESRI is unable/unwilling to migrate the distance and direction widget across from WebApp Builder to Experience Builder, what can you (@SubaKrishnan & @Jianxia ) suggest that offers the same functionality? And if the functionality is not available yet, then when do you envisage it being made available?