idea Measure widget / tool for instant apps in ArcGIS Instant Apps Ideas

Measure widget / tool for instant apps

WilliamRockwell1 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 20:24:04 GMT

Surprised to find no measure tool/widget for the instant apps, in general or minimalist.

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

BethRomero — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 21:07:51 GMT

Hi William, measurement tools are available in a few instant apps right now. Media Map template might be one which could work for since you were looking for it in Minimalist. The others are 3D Viewer, Exhibit, and Imagery Viewer. Nearby and Sidebar (similar layout to Minimalist) will have measurement tools added in the Spring 2022 update of ArcGIS Online.

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

WilliamRockwell1 — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:06:59 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply. I have a general and minimalist web app that teams is using heavily. I'd hate to swap out the URL out from under them. Hopefully the measure tools will make their way to general and minimalist soon.

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

JaredAuch — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:24:34 GMT

The spring update was listed as completed in March and I still don't see any measurement tool options in any of those apps. Did these updates get kicked down the road?

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

BethRomero — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:18:16 GMT

@JaredAuch Currently, 3D Viewer, Exhibit, Imagery Viewer, Media Map, and Nearby have measure capabilities. Sidebar will be adding measurement tools in the June 2022 release, which should be coming out this week. Measurement tools are located in full setup of some apps, one way to locate tools is to search in the app settings. You can search from express and it will find capabilities in full setup as well.

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

CatherineCronlund_2 — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:12:16 GMT

@BethRomero I had a little trouble finding the measurement tool in instant apps but did finally find it thanks to that search settings you mentioned. Going off of that, do you know if there is anything in the pipeline that will allow the measurement tool to be configured where we can set a default measurement? Right now, in instant apps and experience builder, the measurement tools are just an on/off option. From what I can tell, someone made a custom widget that did just that in Experience Builder; however, my expertise does not lean that way so I am unsure on how install that.

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

KellyHutchins — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 18:07:17 GMT

@CatherineCronlund_2 can you provide more details about what you mean by "Set a default measurement". Do you mean that you want the tool to be started with a pre-existing location to measure?

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

CatherineCronlund_2 — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 18:33:35 GMT

@KellyHutchins In web app builder it allows me to set feet as the default measurement tool. In Experience Builder it is automatically set to meters with the option to change it after the app loads but users have to do that every time they load the app. It is a switch that is an on/off option in experience builder rather than the configuration options that are shown given web app builder. I know it’s a small thing; however, that is one of the biggest complaints or questions to change it that I get about the configurations on apps from users. Does that make sense?

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

KellyHutchins — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 19:09:36 GMT

Yes that makes sense. We'll look at adding a config option to set the default units for measuremenbt.

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

CatherineCronlund_2 — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 19:23:25 GMT

@KellyHutchins Thank you for looking into it.

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

MattSabatello — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:41:00 GMT

@KellyHutchins - our users are expressing this same frustration en masse as well. Please keep up posted if you add a config option to set the default units for measurement via Instant Apps.

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

KellyHutchins — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 17:11:04 GMT

We plan to add this capability to the app configuration experience at the next release. For now if you are comfortable with using the AGO Assistant<> to edit your application’s json data you could set the property for either the measureAreaUnit or measureLinearUnit. You can find valid values for the area and linear untis here:
https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/api-reference/esri-widgets-Measurement.html#areaUnit
https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/api-reference/esri-widgets-Measurement.html#linearUnit

Here’s an example of how the app json looks with the values added:

"datePublished": 1669222983946,
"measure": true,
"measureAreaUnit": "acres",
"measureLinearUnit":"miles"

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

UlteigEngineers — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:25:32 GMT

Any update on this? Curious when this will be added to the attachment viewer?

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

BenWilkerson89 — Thu, 16 May 2024 14:06:53 GMT

My users have shown me that the measure tool does not work the same way as it did in Web AppBuilder. For example, a user can only make one linear measurement and then has to clear out the measurement to make an additional measurement or even to select other data in the map.

Re: Measure widget / tool for instant apps

alex_friant — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:58:26 GMT

Also, the measurement tool in Experience Builder (and others) doesn't allow someone to create a circle with a radial measurement. That's a pretty common need. Also, having the ability to make multiple measurements should be part of the tool offering because users want to make comparisons, measure multiple objects and distances between multiple objects, etc.