Calculate Distance Activity

Description

Calculates the shortest planar distance between two geometries.

Usage

You may need to calculate the distance between two points. You could take two points from a user using a Display Form activity and a Geometry Picker form element and calculate the distance using the Calculate Distance activity.

Offline Support

This activity works when the device is offline.

Inputs

Geometry1

Required Type: esri.Geometry (3.x, 4.x)* The first geometry.

Geometry2

Required Type: esri.Geometry (3.x, 4.x)* The second geometry.

Unit

Optional Type: String | Number Measurement unit of the return value. Defaults to the units of the input geometries. Known values: meters | feet | kilometers | miles | nautical-miles | yards.

* Geocortex Workflow uses different versions of Esri's ArcGIS API for JavaScript depending on the type of host application. See Underlying Technologies for information.

Outputs

distance

Type: Number The distance between the two geometries.

* Geocortex Workflow uses different versions of Esri's ArcGIS API for JavaScript depending on the type of host application. See Underlying Technologies for information.

Properties

For information about the ID, Display Name, and Description properties, see Properties Common to all Activities.

Supported Environments

Environments capable of running this activity

Server	Client
	Geocortex Web	Geocortex Mobile	Geocortex Viewer for HTML5	Web AppBuilder
Levels of Support:      Full Support      Partial Support      No Support

Offline Support

This activity works when the device is offline.

Version Information

Supported from: Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 2.9, Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS 2.4.