Working with Labels

Labels are text used to provide a feature's name or other attributes. Labeling is important to provide interpretation, description and context for a map. You can view and edit various properties of a label.

Manage the visibility of a layer’s labels

When Enable label properties for all layers option is selected in Functionality Profile by the administrator, you can manage a layer's labels.

When Enable label properties for all layers is checked.
  • Spatial Analyst will show the label buttons for all mapping layers.
  • Labels will initially be off, but a user can turn them on to enable them, choose label columns and style and their label settings in their project.
Note: This is the default behavior that was introduced in Spectrum Spatial version 2020.1 release.
When Enable label properties for all layers is unchecked:
  • Spectrum Spatial Analyst will revert to the 2019.1 behavior where label buttons are only shown for layers that had labels enabled when they were uploaded from MapInfo Pro (Named label source exists with visibility enabled).
  • Users would be able to pick the label column for these layers and change label style.
  • All other layers will not have a label button and users will not be able to toggle the labels for them.

This allows admins to control which layers have label buttons.

When an admin, sub-admin or a user toggles label visibility for a layer and saves the project, this will override the initial visibility setting and column choice of the label. This allows you to save different projects with different label settings for the same initial layers.