Rotate Labels for Points in ArcGIS Online

[PeterMacKenzie2]

Please allow for the rotation of labels for points in ArcGIS Online Feature Layers using a numeric field (or a hard coded value). Similar to what you can do in ArcGIS Pro. 

My particular use case: engineering road chainage labels are commonly aligned perpendicular to the a road alignment (and also offset) in drawings and plans. Consistency between web maps and drawings are valuable for AEC users. Just one example here, rotated labels can improve web cartography in many other ways. 

Documentation for label rotation in Pro:
Set point label rotation—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

This was also question from 2020:
https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/rotating-labels/td-p/627894

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[mpboyle]

Yes please!  We have a point dataset that represents detailed real estate text, and having the ability to rotate this text within a web map would better align the text to how it's represented within Pro.

[Michael_Kraus]

Agree that ArcGIS online needs to be able to rotate point labels by a numeric attribute.

While not a solution, I noticed even sharing as a map layer to AGOL has point text ignoring the rotation settings from ArcGIS Pro - while ArcGIS Enterprise honours these settings.

A potential workaround is to share as a tiles, which means AGOL can display the labels rotated.  Whether this is suitable to switch your entire layer to tiles or just the annotation component and continue to publish your other geometry as feature layers.  It does take away the dynamic ability to switch to another label field, but may be suitable for text elements that are static.

[ThordisSigurgestsdottir]

YES please !   Agree that ArcGIS online needs to be able to rotate point labels by a numeric attribute.

[GordonCourtney]

Please consider this in future releases. I would like to be able to label road right of way width to be perpendicular to the road centerline so it makes more sense visually. 

[JoshWhite]

I specifically converted some annotation to points because ArcGIS Online made displaying (or rather updating) annotation quite difficult.  Use labeled points in Pro worked so great that I wanted to use those in AGOL only to realize I can't rotate the labels.

[ChelseaRozek]

nearly 5 years since that other question was posted, I'm still not seeing an option to rotate labels in ArcGIS Online : (

polygon labels are also stuck to their centroid, please upvote this idea too

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/more-label-settings-in-webmaps/idc-p/1503636#M1142...

[JoshWhite]

@ChelseaRozek I went to vote on that idea too.  It is definitely needed also.  In fact, if they did what was suggested there, we wouldn't have to worry about this idea.  

[Schneidt]

We need this feature in AGOL. We're criticized  by the authorities to be not able to rotate labels by field to ensure propper plandesign online. It should be the same function as in ArcGis Pro.

[AngelaVanderpas1]

I am going to ask for a response on why this is still an issue.  Didn't map viewer classic in AGOL have this option?

[AndrewVitale1]

Yes, please!  Im shocked that this option is not available in AGOL.  All of us have put in many hours in building our annotation datasets -- which we now have to convert -- only to be told they wont work in AGOL.  And they still don't...and we have not been given any idea on when they will.  

If ESRI wants us to use AGOL more and more (understandable), please make it a worthwhile product.