topic AGOL support for symbol rotation in ArcGIS Online Questions

AGOL support for symbol rotation

MiguelParedes — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:04:26 GMT

Greetings all,

I have a layer in a map document which represent wind speed and direction. The direction is indicated by the direction of an arrow symbol which is uses attribute values to set the angle of rotation. When I publish the dataset as a feature service, the rotation is not being honoured; all arrows point in the same direction.

Does any one know if it is possible to do this OOTB in AGOL, or would I have to resort to using one of the APIs? Also, are there any plans to implement this in future releases of AGOL?

Many thanks in advance for any replies.

Re: AGOL support for symbol rotation

MikeMinami — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 22:46:20 GMT

This is something we're working on, to be able to take the expression from Arcmap and render symbols accordingly. The APIs currently do support a simple rotation of a symbol, but not based on an expression, like from a field value. You might be able to write something yourself to do so...but I couldn't tell you how.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: AGOL support for symbol rotation

MiguelParedes — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:30:45 GMT

Greetings Mike,

Many thanks for the response. Would you happen to know when would we be likely to see this functionality implemented?

Re: AGOL support for symbol rotation

MikeMinami — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:55:31 GMT

It's being implemented in the API first. Then a UX in arcgis.com. I'd say you should see something in the API within the next 3-6 months...no guarantees though.

Thanks,

Mike