Experience Builder support for a configurable scale bar

[AllisonRobertsonAU]

Presently, Experience Builder has a scale bar setting associated with the map widget that simply allows it to be visible or invisible.

On making it visible, a simple line scalebar displays with *both* imperial and metric units, however, users will most commonly want *either* metric or imperial units, not both.

Therefore, this ArcGIS Idea is to request that the Experience Builder scale bar have configuration settings, that allow either a metric or an imperial unit of measure be displayed. To provide maximum flexibility, if the user could further nominate to display both, all scenarios would be covered.

So, there could be toggle options for each unit, thus allowing for all user preferences :

• Imperial
• Metric

Additionally, the following configuration options would make for an even more useful scale bar :

• Allow the displayed scale bar unit to be specified (m/km) (ft/mi)
• Allow the number of intervals on the scalebar to be specified (eg. 4 intervals, of 500m wide)

Please consider this request. I am thinking it's going to be a popular one amongst the user community 🙂

Regards,

Allison R.

[beheer_nf]

When looking at the enhancement that goes with this (status: 'will not be adressed'), I see "You can publish your own custom print service that includes a scale bar with only one unit.".

This (publish a custom print service) is afaik only possible when you own a server... With only AGOL available, we are stuck with the default dual.

Hopefully this decision can be revised one more time by the devs.

[OleNowak]

A simple text showing the current map scale would be perfect for us as well.

[Ke_Xu]

Hi All, 

You can now choose the Line, Ruler, or Number scale bar style.
- With Line style, you can choose to display metric units, imperial units, or both.
- With Ruler style, you can choose to display metric or imperial units.
- With Number style, you can specify a number of decimal places and choose to show a thousands separator.

[MollyJackson]

@Ke_Xu thanks for the update!

[ha_hyang]

@Ke_Xu. Our applications use the nautical mile unit for vessel presentation. Is it possible to include the "nautical mile" for measurement, draw widget, and scale bar to display length and areas?

Helen 

[Ke_Xu]

Hi @ha_hyang,

I just checked, and Measurement supports displaying length and area in nautical miles.

Draw widget supports displaying length in nautical miles. The lack of area support may also be due to API limitations.

Scale bar support for this also requires the JS API, which currently only supports these three units. For the scale bar, I think it would be best to submit a request in the JS API idea or to the support team.

Thanks,

Ke