You can organize fields in mapping layouts into groups so that
they are easier to work with.
About this task
To define and work with map groups:
Procedure
- Right-click inside the Memory view Renderings pane
and click Manage Groups. This will open the Manage
Groups dialog box. In this dialog box, you can add and remove group names
for the current memory map.
- Once you have added the memory groups that you want, you can add
map layout fields to them:
- Select the field or fields that you want to add to a group.
To select multiple fields, use the keyboard Ctrl or Shift keys.
- Right-click the selection and select Set Groups from
the pop-up menu. This menu item will expand to a subgroup, in which you can
choose the group that you want to add the field to, or you can choose to add
the field to all groups.
- After you have set the group or groups that you want to work with,
you can use these group settings for filtering fields from the mapping layout
for easier viewing. To do this, right-click inside the pane and select Show
Group from the pop-up menu. This menu item will expand to a subgroup,
in which you can choose the group that you want to display. When you select
the group, it will filter out fields that do not belong to the group. If you
want the pane to display all fields, make sure that Show Entire
Map is selected.
- After adding groups to the current rendered map, you can export
the changes that you have made. To do this, right-click inside the Renderings pane
and select Export Map File from the pop-up menu. If
errors exist in the map file, you will be prompted by an error dialog and
you will not be able to export the map. If there are no errors in the map
file, you will be prompted to browse for the location in which you want to
save the map. If you save the map to the location in which the original map
resides, that map will be overwritten by the exported map.
Attention: Grouping information is not saved in a memory map layout
unless the When editing groups and descriptions, always save the
changes to the file Memory Map preference is selected or you explicitly
export the information to a file. Otherwise, if you have added
grouping information to a rendering and then you remove the rendering without
exporting the file, the grouping information will be discarded.
Results
If you make group changes to a map and want to discard them all, right-click
inside the
Renderings pane and choose
Rebuild
Map. This will prompt you with a dialog that asks if you want
to preserve unsaved grouping information when rebuilding the map. If you click
No,
all changes that you have made to map groups will be discarded. To preserve
grouping information, click
Yes.