topic Re: labelling question - Dynamic labels which centre on the screen view in ArcGIS Online Questions

labelling question - Dynamic labels which centre on the screen view

narmour1979 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:53:36 GMT

I am working for a utilities customer who needs to clearly label features on a map that are designated critical assets. I am doing this by applying a simple arcade function to have the label read:

"CRITICAL ASSET - CONTACT xyz"

Problem is, many of these critical assets are large polygons covering many square kilometres, and the label is only applied once to each polygon. If the area in which the engineer is working is far away from where the label sits, they could have no idea the asset is critical and could be putting themselves in danger.

I can have this label centre on the screen in ArcGIS Pro, but this functionality doesn't seem to be available in ArcGIS Online. Is there any way of making this possible?

Re: labelling question - Dynamic labels which centre on the screen view

RussRoberts — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:25:16 GMT

This is on our roadmap to support dynamic centroid placement for the polygons so if you are only viewing a part of the polygon or zoomed in on one and are not at the center of the polygon the label will find the center of the polygon in view. We were hoping to get it into this recent update but were not able to. We are aiming for this for the release coming in the new year. This will not require any map updates or arcade changes.

Re: labelling question - Dynamic labels which centre on the screen view

narmour1979 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:58:15 GMT

Brilliant news thanks for replying! I'll keep an eye out for this in future updates.

Re: labelling question - Dynamic labels which centre on the screen view

LarryFox — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:22:00 GMT

The dynamic centroid placement for polygon labels doesn't seem to be working. Did that make it into the last update or is that still on the roadmap?

Re: labelling question - Dynamic labels which centre on the screen view

RussRoberts — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:52:31 GMT

Its not in yet and still on our road map. This upcoming release has some improvements to deconfliction and multipoint support and hopefully the following update we will get the centroid placement in.

Re: labelling question - Dynamic labels which centre on the screen view

JimCarmichael1 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:55:49 GMT

Definitely would be great to get this pushed out as soon as possible in the next update or two, if possible. Really affects our users who work with large polygons when they zoom in to edges and no label appears.

Re: labelling question - Dynamic labels which centre on the screen view

LarryFox — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:54:04 GMT

Thank you.