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Hey Jay You may have to use the Metadata statement to write the settings to the TAB file using MapBasic. Metadata Table table_name { SetKey key_name To key_value | DropKey key_name [ Hierarchical ] | SetTraverse starting_key_name [ Hierarchical ...

Sure, the tool WindowHelper has such a function built-in. read this article: MapInfo Monday: SmartTexts with Map Coordinates in the Layout Window . You can find the source code for WindowHelper on GitHub in case you want to grab the code and implement ...

Hey Mayca I have an example here that uses a map in a frame in a layout and adds legends for all the layers. The legend is created at the top-left of the frame, inside the map window. You can change this to start anywhere you prefer. You can grab ...

I'm not sure if you are trying to zoom the map in the layout via the original map? If you are, that won't work anymore. You need to use the Set Map statement on the map that is embedded in the frame in the layout. In the code above, it is the map ...

Thank you, The initial alteration to the query did the trick. I was encountering the Cannot Delete from View error previously. There are hundreds of thousands of records across hundreds of tables so refraining from any column updates is best. This ...