idea Turn snapping on or off in Measurement Tool in ArcGIS Experience Builder Ideas

Turn snapping on or off in Measurement Tool

Brian_McLeer — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:00:11 GMT

This idea stems from this post:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-ideas/allow-snapping-in-measure-tool-for-experience/idi-p/1299681

At 1.16, snapping was introduced on the measurement tool. It is on by default. This idea is to add the function to allow the user the ability to turn snapping on or off within the widget.

Re: Turn snapping on or off in Measurement Tool

Wei_Ying — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:58:33 GMT

Hi @Brian_McLeer ,

Thanks for your idea!
We would consider to support this option in widget configuring but it is currently limited by JSAPI.

Currently with Measurement widget, you can press on "CTRL" key while measurement and it will disable snapping. Please try and let me know if it works.

Re: Turn snapping on or off in Measurement Tool

Brian_McLeer — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:21:47 GMT

Hello @Wei_Ying, thank you for looking into this. Thank you for the CTRL tip, it did work to disable the snapping!

Re: Turn snapping on or off in Measurement Tool

Wei_Ying — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:37:04 GMT

We will provide an option soon to disable/enable snapping in the Measurement widget

Re: Turn snapping on or off in Measurement Tool

Brian_McLeer — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:04:05 GMT

Thank you for the update @Wei_Ying

Re: Turn snapping on or off in Measurement Tool

AprilJohnson2 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:05:05 GMT

Now that the Measurement widget is not standalone and is buried in the Map widget so I can't interact with any settings, where do I turn on the snapping? I do not have any snapping whether I use the CTRL button or not. I am using referenced data in an Experience in Portal. What am I missing?

Re: Turn snapping on or off in Measurement Tool

HanRit — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:43:38 GMT

It will only work for layers that have vertices, like a hosted feature layer. Not a map image layer or vector tile.

Re: Turn snapping on or off in Measurement Tool

AprilJohnson2 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:22:28 GMT

These are referenced vector layers that have vertices. We are running Enterprise 11.3. No default snapping, no CTRL to activate or deactivate snapping.

Re: Turn snapping on or off in Measurement Tool

ChristyChristensen — Tue, 27 May 2025 18:51:55 GMT

@Wei_Ying

I'd appreciate an update when the option to DISABLE snapping within the measure tool. We don't want our users snapping to vertices on 66' wide parcels that may actually be 65' or 67' depending how old the survey may be. For this reason, we are not providing the measure tool as it defaults to snapping. We are aware the user can turn off snapping with the CTRL option but we don't want users thinking they are surveyors and finding "problems" that aren't problem. We prefer the option to measure and turn off the snapping function in the widget so users can't snap at all.

Re: Turn snapping on or off in Measurement Tool

Wei_Ying — Wed, 28 May 2025 08:46:02 GMT

@ChristyChristensen the option to Disable snapping for 2d measurement will be ready soon in the coming June release. But JSAPI in 3D has not supported this option. Do you see significant performance when measuring in 3D map?