Scalebar only showing in Miles?

[Paco]

Hello all!   strangely,  and different from most other posts, my Map widget Scalebar is only showing in Miles?  I would love to have both Miles/Kilometers as shows in my Javascript API builds,  but would rather default to Kilometers/Metric if that is my only option in AGOL Experience Builder?   am I missing a simple parameter?

thx!   screenshot included.

[JillianStanford · Accepted solution]

I believe this depends on what Units are configured for your organization or your individual user settings.

I don't see a way to require the units to show in a specific standard for an individual app.

If I change the units in my user settings, all scale bars show in metric.

Jill

[Paco]

@JillianStanford  Wow,  I have never seen that parameter.  as odd as the location is for that setting,  it did the trick.  Thank you!  ESRI definitely needs to add this control to ExB instead of at the Org/User level.  odd.

cheers! 

p.s.  the 'Metric' scale bar is flipped cartographically(tics pointed up) compared to the 'U.S. standard'.  which to me shows that if the scale bar were dual, like in the JSAPI, it could easily be done.  they would be stacked just fine.

[JillianStanford]

I see both use cases. It makes sense to allow the user to view a map in the unit standard of their locale no matter who authors it but adding an option to show both for a specific app would be a helpful addition.