topic Re: ExB Dev Edition Deploying Overrides Units in App in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

ExB Dev Edition Deploying Overrides Units in App

Treavon — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:33:06 GMT

I have a local ExB Dev Edition tied to a custom routing service. The directions widget I set the units as imperial. When I download a zip and deploy it to a web server the directions widget returns routes in meters instead.

The imperial units do show in the draft preview and in the published item view while still using the Dev Edition before the zip is made.

Is there a work around until the bug is addressed?

This behavior I have seen on both 1.17 and 1.18

Re: ExB Dev Edition Deploying Overrides Units in App

AlixVezina — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:20:22 GMT

Hi @Treavon , Are you accessing the draft and the published item using the same user credentials? Units preferences may be stored at the org/user settings level and may affect what you see in the app. Something to double-check.

Re: ExB Dev Edition Deploying Overrides Units in App

Treavon — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:41:42 GMT

While in the Developer Edition I am accessing the draft and published item using an ArcGIS Online Account.

When deployed to a web server this is accessed publicly and anonymously by users.

To check, I updated my own user accounts' unit preferences to metric.
This does seem to be stored in the user's account settings.

But that means the SDK's unit toggle has no purpose?

A user's preferences override it and anonymous users do not see the widget setting either.

Re: ExB Dev Edition Deploying Overrides Units in App

Treavon — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:08:51 GMT

I found a solution for it. Not sure why, but on download, the widget setting for "unit" is not added to the widget's config. In the main cdn\config.json

Adding the line: "unit": "imperial",

This did the trick.

Example inline:

"widget_##":{

...

"routeConfig":{ ... },

"searchConfig":{ ... },

"unit": "imperial",

"enableRouteSaving": true,

...

... },