Near Me Widget: Select Feature to define analysis area

[SteveCole]

As the Near Me widget is currently implemented, you must manually draw a feature (point/line/polygon) to define the area for analysis. Please add the option to select a feature from one of the map layers and use that shape to define the area for analysis. This option should also apply to selecting a feature from a layer imported using the Add Data widget as well.

It seems counter productive to important a dataset that defines an area of interest, only to have to manually trace it using the sketch tool in order to run the analysis. Just allow me to select the feature and get going.

[JeffreyThompson2]

You can use a feature for the selection area in Near Me. See this build for an example. https://community.esri.com/t5/experience-builder-tips-and-tricks/zone-lookup-in-experience-builder-a...

Near Me does not have Add Data support and I wouldn't expect it in a future release as Near Me requires configuration in the Build Mode to know what to do. Take a look at the Analysis Widget. I believe it has Add Data support and a lot of overlap with Near Me functionality.

[AzizaParveen1]

Hi @SteveCole ,

You can enable select tools from map widget and set  a message action record selection changes -> Near Me -> Set location. Could you please give this a try and see if this helps your workflow?

Widgets and tools are flexible and can communicate /work together in Experience Builder.  That is the reason we intentionally avoid adding all functionalities together in one widget, it makes the updating process more difficult, for example, if a new functionality is being added to Select widget, users will want the same one in Near Me as well, so basically we have to update in two places which will introduce more bugs.