Writing Arcade Expressions

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Table of Contents

Author’s Introduction

Chapter 1 – The Basics of Arcade Expressions

Arcade Profiles

Creating your first Arcade expression

Exercise 1 – Using attributes in a label expression

Chapter 2 – Using Arcade Functions

Placing functions in your expressions and managing the results

Formatting Text

Exercise 2 – Formatting the owner name data

Chapter 3 – Using Arcade in ArcGIS Online

Accessing the profiles in online web maps

Exercise 3 – Using Arcade online

The ArcGIS Online Arcade Expression Builder

Expanding the expression

Making a web map from a project

Exercise 4 – Making a web map with an Arcade Expression included

Chapter 4 – Building Custom Equations

Controlling symbology in a map with Arcade

Exercise 5 – Using an Arcade expression to set symbology

Controlling symbology in ArcGIS Online

Exercise 6 – Controlling symbology in online data

Chapter 5 – Using Logic in Arcade

The Arcade logic functions can be used to control the expression

Exercise 7 – Using the Iif() function in symbology

Multi-value logic statements

Exercise 8 – Building a When statement

Creating a user-defined function

More logic statements

Chapter 6 – Working With Dates

Setting up and formatting dates in your expressions

Exercise 9 – Writing date expressions

Using the Date() functions

Chapter 7 – Writing Geometry Functions

Arcade has specific code to handle geometry features directly

Exercise 10 – Working with the Area() function

Writing geometry analysis expressions in ArcGIS Online

Exercise 11 – Overlay analysis in AGOL

Checking topology conditions with Arcade

Exercise 12 – Geometry layer overlap condition

Building Array() and Dictionary() items

Working in the Arcade Playground

Exercise 13 – Testing code in the playground

Putting a dictionary to use

Rafael’s Challenge (Five Challenges)