Working with Map Legend

Map legends show a key to the map overlays available on your map. It allows you to:
  • turn on or off individual overlays and individual layers in a map to show only the maps more appropriate to your requirements.
  • adjust translucency of a layer.
  • Save the current map project.

You can perform following actions in the Map Legend:

  1. Click or touch the right side menu to open the Map Legend panel.
  2. In the Map Layers you will see following options:
    Table 1. Map Layer Options
    Icon Option Description
    Reorder Map Layers

    This option allows you to reorder the map layers in the map legend panel.

    1. Click on the Reorder Map Layers toggle icon to enable the reordering of the map layers.
    Note: You are now in the reordering mode.

    2. Drag the map layers up or down and position them according to your choice.

    3. Once done, click reorder map layers icon again to come out of the reordering mode.
    Expand or Collapse Map Layers Click the toggle icon to expand all the map layers. Similarly, click it again to collapse all the map layers.
    Overflow
    It has following options:
    • Save Project - Allows you to save the current state of the map. Only the owner of the project can a project. For details, refer to Saving the Map Project section.
    • Save As Project - Allows you to make a copy of existing map project. It is useful when you want to make a copy and edit admin and user defined maps. For details, refer to Save As the Map Project section.
    • Project Settings - Allows you to edit the settings of the selected map project. For details, refer to Project Settings section.
  3. Click or Touch the Show\Hide Overlay on the Map check box next to the required map overlay in the legend to turn on a map layer. Overlay check boxes can show following three states:
    1. Checked- when all children layers are checked.
    2. Unchecked- when all children layers are unchecked.
    3. Indeterminate()- when some and not all layers are checked.
  4. Click or touch the overlay name or the or icon next to the overlay name to expand or collapse the legend display for an overlay. You can check or un-check individual map layers to show or hide them from the map.
  5. Click or touch the Overflow icon next to the Show\Hide Overlay on the Map check box to set the translucency of the layer. It has following options:
    Icon Name Description
    Multi Select Click to select multiple features from a layer on the map. You can toggle a selected layer to deselect it. Once done, click to display information on the left hand panel.
    Note: The Multi Select option is available with named layers, vector layers and query layer.
    Note: The Multi-select option is also available from Add Panel.
    See Tabular Results Click to see detailed results on the left hand panel in tabular format.
    Note: This option is not available if Query is disabled from adminconsole.
    View Entire Layer Click to zoom and pan the map to view the entire layer. It displays all the data in a layer in the visible bounds of a map.
    Query Click or touch to do the query on the selected table. The Create Query panel appears.
    Thematic Click or touch to do the thematics on the selected table. The Create Thematics panel appears.
    Edit Click or touch to edit annotation. For more information, refer to Editing Annotation.
    Note: This option is available for annotations.
    Map Information Click or touch to see feature information for all the visible map layers intersecting with the underlying annotation on the left hand panel.
    Note: This option is available for annotations.
    Move Click or touch to move the annotation.
    Note: This option is available for annotations.
    Zoom to Click or touch to zoom to selected annotation.
    Note: This option is available for annotations.
    Add New Record Click or touch to add new records to the selected table. The Add New Record panel appears.
    Rename Click or touch to rename the annotation.
    Note: This option is available for annotations.
    Delete Click or touch the Delete icon to delete the layer(s).
    Opacity Click or touch the or icon next to Opacity option to increase or decrease the translucency of a layer.
  6. Click or touch the Overflow icon again to close it.
    Note: The Opacity Control icon appears only when Show\Hide Overlay on the Map check box is touched or clicked.