What’s new in Near Me (June 2025)

[AzizaParveen1]

We have added some exciting enhancements in June update for Near Me

Set active tool for drawing

Now you can configure a default active tool in Near Me upon widget loads. This is a Web AppBuilder parity functionality and allows you to draw on the map right after widget loads, you will not have to select any draw tool to get you started. You will find the setting in Input section.

Show multiple field values as feature title

You can now show multiple field values as feature title.This is also Web AppBuilder parity functionality. Now with arcade support in experience builder, we can do so by creating a calculated field using arcade. In the screenshot below I added a new field and calculated it using simple concatenate arcade function, then used that field as display field in Near Me

PDF report related environment

When you export to PDF, you can choose to include the map legend in the PDF report. If groups and subgroups are configured, you can choose to merge rows for groups and subgroups in the PDF report. The following is a list of other elements that appear in PDF exports:

• A scale bar and north arrow appear when the Scale bar and Compass tools are turned on in the settings of the connected Map widget.
• Map attribution appears for the map.
• Labels for the area of interest dimensions appear when you search by location.
• The date and time and time of the export appear. These are both editable.

Support for exporting in shapefile, geodatabase and KML format

We added support in Near Me for exporting Near Me results in shapefile, file geodatabase and KML formats. The Export button does not appear if you enable only .kml, .shp, or .fgdb file export without also enabling export to item option. The output data sources created by the Near Me widget are feature collection layers, which do not have associated URLs or REST endpoints, so to enable exporting to KML, shapefile, or geodatabase you must also enable export to item option. Current limitation is Batch export option in Near Me do not support these new formats (shapefile, file geodatabase and KML), they are only available at the layer level export.

Near Me now works with Experience Builder data panel export settings, you turn on or off any format from the data panel.

Search area symbols

We have symbol picker for search/buffer area in Near Me, you can now choose any of the symbols from the symbol picker and customize the out. The setting is available in the General settings

Export to CSV format now download with a count file:

In many cases you might want to have the feature count of the downloaded features, now if you export to csv. another csv file will download with the original file to show count. 

[DavidColey]

These are great enhancements and I am able to employ the multi-attribute grouping feature right away. It does mean extra clicks for the user to highlight the record of interest on the map, but being able to add a 'No Value' title is very helpful.

Sadly, though when I saw Arcade as an enhancement for this release, I was hoping that meant that widgets such as Near Me, Table or List would be able to read in an Arcade-derived attribute column from a feature layer with in the webmap that stores a returned value (e.g. {expression/expr4}) , much like the Map Viewer popup view for the Fields element has long done....

But this is great....

[AzizaParveen1]

Hi @DavidColey 

You can use arcade for creating dynamic styles in List widget now.

What do you want to use arcade for in Near Me? If you could give us your use case we will definitely look into it.

[DavidColey]

Hi @AzizaParveen1  - not sure how I can be more clear.  

I was hoping to see that the Arcade enhancement that meant that widgets such as Near Me, Table or List would be able to read in an Arcade-generated attribute column from a feature layer within the webmap.

For example, when we set up an Arcade attribute expression for the popup, that expression is able to be added to the Fields view element for the popup, same as any other attribute.  It just appears as an expression column that can be added to the Fields list view:

This would mean that the widget would have to honor arcade attribute expressions that have been saved as part of a feature layer.  Then, for example, that attribute expression could be used as a source for the 'Display Field' in the Near Me, or appear as field that could be added to the Table widget.

[AzizaParveen1]

@DavidColey My apology for asking to you to repeat, since I already mentioned in my post (the 2nd enhancement),  I wanted to be super clear that I am not missing anything🙂This is already possible in Near Me, and I am pretty sure  other widgets support this as well. Infact , the second enhancement I talked about in my post shows the same functionality, I used a calculated field (output of a arcade expression) and used as display field for showing as feature title.

[Leonidas]

In Web Appbuilder, we were able to select which fields would be shown in the results and change the label of the field.  This is something we use quite a bit and I don't think is currently possible with the Near Me widget in Experience Builder.  Any possibility this functionality will be added in the future?  In the example below, a subset of the original fields in the layer have been selected to display in the results of the Analysis in the screening widget.  

[PatriceLabbé]

Any plan to support report templates like the Feature Report widget so no custom print service would be necessary? Would it be also possible to download a shapefile or a FGDB without having to add an item?  And for the Feature Report widget, would it be possible to add Map Image Services support? We need all this on ArcGIS Enterprise too.

[kiefer]

It appears that the recent updates to the Near Me widget have introduced a problem with the automatically generated PDF reports. Specifically, the legends for layers with multiple symbology classifications are now being partially cut off, regardless of the selected template.

[RSL]

@AzizaParveen1 

Apologies if I’m missing something here. I have the Arcade expression working in my web map - I can see it in the field list and in the pop-up of my layer (both in the web map and Experience Builder) - but it doesn’t appear as an option for the display field in the Near Me widget.

Does it need to be an actual field in the attribute table?

Your description of the functionality is great, but could you set out the actual steps?

Thanks.

[DavidColey]

Yes - this is what I was trying to describe @AzizaParveen1 - The simple Arcade expression I have in my map works as I described above and as @RSL is describing here.  All I have done is take an existing attribute field that stores a feature Name in ALLCAPS and converts it to Proper case.

But it doesn't matter if I save the layer with the expression in the field list, re-save the map, and refresh the experience in edit mode, the expression attribute does not appear as field in either the data view or as an option to use as the display field.

I have a more complicated use case where I want to use a related field as the display by brining in the attribute from a related table with the Arcade function FeatureSetByRelationshipName, and use that as my display field.

But if even the simple case doesn't work, this won't either.

Thanks-

David

[AzizaParveen1]

Hi @RSL ,

Experience Builder does not support Arcade fields in the field list at this moment. The arcade expression in the pop-up profile supports more variables than ExB. Besides, using these Arcade fields in lists or other widgets can create performance issues, however it is in Experience Builder's future product plan.

In my example here, I created a attribute field first, then used arcade expression to calculate its value.

[SulaW]

Hi @AzizaParveen1,

Is it possible for the Near Me widget to analyze 'within' instead of intersecting features? I would like a user to be able to select a town and then generate a report that summarizes demographic data from the census tracts that fall within the town. If it's not possible now, could this be included in a future update?

A nice-to-have would be for the Filter widget to be able to trigger Record Selection Changes or have the Set Location data action.

Thank you!
Sula

[kiefer]

@AzizaParveen1, are there any existing plans to push a quick fix for the problem described in an earlier comment (see below)?

"It appears that the recent updates to the Near Me widget have introduced a problem with the automatically generated PDF reports. Specifically, the legends for layers with multiple symbology classifications are now being partially cut off, regardless of the selected template."


Or will users need to wait until the next larger update for Experience Builder and the Near Me widget comes along? Choosing different PDF templates (e.g., ANSI Landscape A) does not appear to fix the issue especially if the list of symbology classifications for the layer is fairly long.